DBX, DB Connect Snag list

[jdbtee]

Hi,

Having gone grey and bitten my nails to the bone, I've now successfully setup DBX!

I was getting 'I.O Connection' and 'Encountered the following error while trying to update: In handler 'localapps': Error while posting to url=/servicesNS/nobody/dbx/dbx/install/java'

Here is my snag list to help other splunkers:

• Check your Java installation. JRE x86 1.7_72 works, seems that 1.8 or 64bit caused problems and i never got anywhere with the server edition.
• Path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7' with no trailing '\'
• JVM CL options: '-Xmx256m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=' NOTE: '-server' removed
• I set the environmental variable path to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7'

If people can add other things to check.

[martin_mueller]

To save your future nails from torture, check out the deployment requirements in the DBX docs, specifically the Java section: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/1.1.5/DeployDBX/Deploymentrequirements#Java_Runtime_Environ...

That says 1.6 or 1.7 Standard Edition, not 1.8 or server.