I'm getting the same error when in a custom app, not the search app. Any answers out there? ... View more

Thanks for the response, Kristian. I get all that you shared. Let me give a better background to what I am looking for. I work for a large IT department. We have 17+ business units with their own front line support engineers. These engineers are the ones who install the forwarding agent and set a client name using an install script that I created. The client name starts with the business unit's name followed by an underscore and technology name, and then followed by the server name. For example HR_websphere_server1, or OPS_tomcat_websphere_server2 (if that server has both tomcat and websphere on it.) The log locations are the same for each technology. So I only have to define 10 or so apps with the inputs.conf file in it and the proper apps get pushed out to forwarders with the proper inputs.conf file for the technology. If I wanted to put the index location as well using this method then I would have to create 10*17 apps. I would rather define 10+17 apps if there was a way to specify the index based off of the host name instead of based off of the "monitor::" stanza. Right now I am using props and transform files on the Indexers. But this requires a manual update of the props file each time a new forwarder is installed, and the subsequent Indexer restart. I would rather have the forwarder specify the index based on an app that was pushed to it through the deployment server. Does all of that make sense? ... View more