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Troubleshooting Trellix ESM cluster issues

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Address common issues encountered when setting up and maintaining Trellix ESM clusters.

Error

Description

ERROR_MaxItemsExceeded(256)

Too many nodes. The maximum number of nodes is 250.

allowFirst

Not set to false on children nodes

While you are editing the configuration, you can use the Reset feature to return the cluster to the last known good configuration. Once you write out the settings, you can't reset to a previous configuration.