topic Re: splunkd.log error tracking in Monitoring Splunk

splunkd.log error tracking

jarjoh42 — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:23:35 GMT

I have this error continually coming up in my splunkd.log and I cannot figure out where I need to put in the conf-change stanza. Is there a way to get a file or app location from this error?

05-23-2013 23:40:04.486 -0400 ERROR SearchParser - Could not find macro 'conf-change' that takes 0 arguments. Expecting stanza name 'conf-change'.

Re: splunkd.log error tracking

aholzer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:56:19 GMT

This means that you have a search that is trying to run with a "conf-change" macro, but it's not finding it. The simplest way of figuring out what is going on is to identify what app the "conf-change" macro is defined vs what app the search that is using it is defined (a couple of simple text searches through your *.conf files should get you both answers).

Once you have identified these things you can ensure that the macro's permissions allow it's usage from outside the app it's in, or clone the macro to the app that the search is in.

Hope this helps.

Re: splunkd.log error tracking

krugger — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:37:38 GMT

This should locate the conf-change
grep -R conf-change etc/*