https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Fail-on-start-splunk-after-the-upgrade-of-Splunk-Enterprise/m-p/460381#M6618 <P>After upgrade to Splunk Enterprise Security v 5.3.1, fail on startup with the following error:</P> <P>[root@splunk02 bin]# ./splunk start</P> <P>Splunk&gt; Another one.</P> <P>Checking prerequisites...<BR /> Checking http port [8000]: open<BR /> Checking mgmt port [8089]: open<BR /> Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open<BR /> Checking kvstore port [8191]: open<BR /> Checking configuration... Done.<BR /> Checking critical directories... Done<BR /> Checking indexes...<BR /> Problem parsing indexes.conf: Cannot load IndexConfig: stanza=perfmon Required parameter=homePath not configured<BR /> Validating databases (splunkd validatedb) failed with code '1'. If you cannot resolve the issue(s) above after consulting documentation, please file a case online at <A href="http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue">http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue</A></P> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:14:46 GMT splunkbeginner 2019-10-15T06:14:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Fail-on-start-splunk-after-the-upgrade-of-Splunk-Enterprise/m-p/460381#M6618 <P>After upgrade to Splunk Enterprise Security v 5.3.1, fail on startup with the following error:</P> <P>[root@splunk02 bin]# ./splunk start</P> <P>Splunk&gt; Another one.</P> <P>Checking prerequisites...<BR /> Checking http port [8000]: open<BR /> Checking mgmt port [8089]: open<BR /> Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open<BR /> Checking kvstore port [8191]: open<BR /> Checking configuration... Done.<BR /> Checking critical directories... Done<BR /> Checking indexes...<BR /> Problem parsing indexes.conf: Cannot load IndexConfig: stanza=perfmon Required parameter=homePath not configured<BR /> Validating databases (splunkd validatedb) failed with code '1'. If you cannot resolve the issue(s) above after consulting documentation, please file a case online at <A href="http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue">http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue</A></P> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:14:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Fail-on-start-splunk-after-the-upgrade-of-Splunk-Enterprise/m-p/460381#M6618 splunkbeginner 2019-10-15T06:14:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Fail-on-start-splunk-after-the-upgrade-of-Splunk-Enterprise/m-p/460382#M6619 <P>as far as I know perfmon is a process associated with Windows OS, however our splunk was installed on linux.</P> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:46:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Fail-on-start-splunk-after-the-upgrade-of-Splunk-Enterprise/m-p/460382#M6619 splunkbeginner 2019-10-15T07:46:31Z