topic Re: GUID of a search-head cluster in Deployment Architecture

GUID of a search-head cluster

PickleRick — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:30:32 GMT

I'm reading the docs about sharing summaries between search-heads and I'm a bit puzzled.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.1/Knowledge/Sharedatamodelsummaries

The article states: "You can find the GUID for a search head cluster in the [shclustering] stanza of server.conf. If you are running a single instance you can find the GUID in etc/instance.cfg. "

But in my case the only guids I can find are those on single shcluster members in etc/instance.cfg. Of course each one is different. I cannot seem to find a "search head cluster GUID" anywhere.

What am I doing wrong?

Re: GUID of a search-head cluster

harsmarvania57 — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:02:12 GMT

Hi,

In Search Head Cluster, you can find GUID in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf under [shclustering] stanza and parameter name is id

id = <GUID> * Unique identifier for this cluster as a whole, shared across all cluster members. * Default: Splunk software arranges for a unique value to be generated and shared across all members.

Re: GUID of a search-head cluster

PickleRick — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:05:22 GMT

Argh. I was looking for a guid parameter, not id. That's why I couldn't find it.

Thank you!