Hi, We upgraded to the Confluent 2.0 platform today (we were earlier using the Kafka 0.8 without the confluent platform). With the latest Kafka 0.9 that is packaged with the platform we are facing issues starting the Mirror maker with multiple consumer config files.
The original command that we were using with kafka 0.8 was, bin/kafka-run-class kafka.tools.MirrorMaker --consumer.config mirrorCluster1Consumer.properties --consumer.config mirrorCluster2Consumer.properties --consumer.config mirrorCluster3Consumer.properties --consumer.config mirrorCluster4Consumer.properties --producer.config mirrorProducer.properties --whitelist "topic1,topic2" With the current Kafka 0.9 release, the tool throws the following error ERROR Exception when starting mirror maker. (kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$) joptsimple.MultipleArgumentsForOptionException: Found multiple arguments for option ['consumer.config'], but you asked for only one at joptsimple.OptionSet.valueOf(OptionSet.java:177) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$.main(MirrorMaker.scala:225) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker.main(MirrorMaker.scala) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$.main(MirrorMaker.scala:276) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker.main(MirrorMaker.scala) So I tried setting the --num.streams=4 option in the command, and it still throws the same error, next I tried to use the --new.consumer option but the tool fails again with the same error. Not sure how to get the Mirrormaker tool running with multiple consumer config files. Could not find much documentation regarding this except for the one in the kafka documentation ( http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_mirror_maker). ps : I was unable to post this in the confluent mailing list and hence posting here. Thanks, Meghana