An interesting sidenote: one of our splunk SMEs tried using the */5 * * * * notation in the inputs.conf file and the job seems to run successfully...
Here is the error output from entering it in the GUI:
04-23-2015 11:10:37.261 +0100 ERROR AdminManagerExternal - Received malformed XML from external handler:\nFailed to validate: com.splunk.config.SplunkConfigurationException: Invalid interval value=*/5 * * * * for stanza dbmon-tail://RTVP/EMSTopicStatus\r\r\nfalse<class 'spp.java.bridge.JavaBridgeError'>Command com.splunk.dbx.monitor.DatabaseMonitorValidator returned status code 17Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n File "F:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\splunk\admin.py", line 70, in init\r\n hand.execute(info)\r\n File "F:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\splunk\admin.py", line 528, in execute\r\n if self.requestedAction == ACTION_EDIT: self.handleEdit(confInfo)\r\n File "F:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\dbx\bin\spp\config.py", line 238, in handleEdit\r\n self.handleModification("edit", output)\r\n File "F:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\dbx\bin\spp\config.py", line 218, in handleModification\r\n id, props = self.process_modification(id, props, type=type, output=output)\r\n File "F:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\dbx\bin\rest_handler_dbmon.py", line 95, in process_modification\r\n self.validateConfig(stanza, props)\r\n
(to be continued)
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