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Unable to find solution for error in splunkd log file

shreyasathavale
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Hey I am getting this error in splunkd log file, I am unable to understand what is the error. The error is

SearchOperator:kv - Invalid key-value parser, ignoring it, transform_name='delimExtractionsIIS2003-WEB'

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lguinn2
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I suspect that you have an invalid attribute specified in one of your transforms.conf files. See if this will find it for you:

Go to the Splunk bin directory ($SPLUNK_HOME/bin)

./splunk btool check

OR, for Windows

splunk btool check

btool checks the configuration files and notifies you of any suspicious or invalid settings. You can also use the Splunk-on-Splunk app (SOS) to perform this and many other diagnostic checks.

btool

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lguinn2
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I suspect that you have an invalid attribute specified in one of your transforms.conf files. See if this will find it for you:

Go to the Splunk bin directory ($SPLUNK_HOME/bin)

./splunk btool check

OR, for Windows

splunk btool check

btool checks the configuration files and notifies you of any suspicious or invalid settings. You can also use the Splunk-on-Splunk app (SOS) to perform this and many other diagnostic checks.

btool

shreyasathavale
Communicator

Thanks lguinn , I found that DELIMS was set to nothing
It was : DELIMS=
I will be correcting it to : DELIMS= " "

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