Hi, I'd like to bump this issue: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201212.mbox/%3CFA0E8A0482D176408729D604142248F319D22CA7%40EXCHANGE14.actuate.com%3E as I'm encountering the same problem.
It seems that the MirrorMaker does the following: 1) if zk.connect is defined for the consumer, MirrorMaker script ignores broker.list value 2) if zk.connect is not definied for the consumer, MirrorMaker fails with an error message: [2013-05-28 11:24:57,457] INFO group1_ip-<hostname> Connecting to zookeeper instance at null (kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector) [2013-05-28 11:24:57,457] INFO Initiating client connection, connectString=null sessionTimeout=6000 watcher=org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient@c820344(org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper) [2013-05-28 11:24:57,461] INFO Starting ZkClient event thread. (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.<init>(ClientCnxn.java:361) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.<init>(ClientCnxn.java:332) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.<init>(ZooKeeper.java:383) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.connect(ZkConnection.java:64) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.connect(ZkClient.java:872) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.<init>(ZkClient.java:98) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.<init>(ZkClient.java:84) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.connectZk(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:152) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:122) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:129) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$$anonfun$3.apply(MirrorMaker.scala:102) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$$anonfun$3.apply(MirrorMaker.scala:102) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206) at scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:61) at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:206) at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:45) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$.main(MirrorMaker.scala:102) at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker.main(MirrorMaker.scala) The command I run is $KAFKA_ROOT/bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.MirrorMaker --consumer.config ./mirror_consumer.properties --producer.config ./mirror_producer.properties --whitelist=".*" --num.streams 1 The ./mirror_consumer.properties file contains: broker.list=1:localhost:59092,2:localhost:59093 groupid=group1 shallowiterator.enable=true When broker.list is commented out and zk.connect is defined instead (or when both are defined), mirroring happens successfully. Any leads? Thank you, Aman