My Splunk won't start due to this error! What do I do?
ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for
(...)
A few things to check here.
OK :
maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000
NOT OK :
maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000 #Some comment here
A few things to check here.
OK :
maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000
NOT OK :
maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000 #Some comment here
FWIW, we can't cut configuration values generally with the # mark; for example they are needed in paths, and in regular expressions.
We could theoretically cut values that don't require # marks, but it could get rather tedious in documenting all the execeptions. In short I think it would make using and supporting splunk harder.
see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles
for the valid comments formats.