topic Are there any negative effects with removing the Search Head server role from the Distributed Management Console? in Deployment Architecture https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205480#M7662 <P>Search Head Cluster, separate Indexers, separate Deployer, separate Distributed Management Console.</P> <P>Only issue is that DMC server role is set as "Search Head" for some reason. Technically, it is one, but I don't want to see it in the DMC overview that way. Are there any (negative) effects from removing this role from the DMC?</P> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:53:04 GMT jhedgpeth 2016-09-21T17:53:04Z Are there any negative effects with removing the Search Head server role from the Distributed Management Console? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205480#M7662 <P>Search Head Cluster, separate Indexers, separate Deployer, separate Distributed Management Console.</P> <P>Only issue is that DMC server role is set as "Search Head" for some reason. Technically, it is one, but I don't want to see it in the DMC overview that way. Are there any (negative) effects from removing this role from the DMC?</P> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:53:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205480#M7662 jhedgpeth 2016-09-21T17:53:04Z Re: Are there any negative effects with removing the Search Head server role from the Distributed Management Console? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205481#M7663 <P>The roles in the DMC are just used for reporting. It shouldn't break your environment in any way to remove the "search head" role from the DMC instance.</P> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:39:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205481#M7663 lguinn2 2016-09-21T18:39:44Z Re: Are there any negative effects with removing the Search Head server role from the Distributed Management Console? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205482#M7664 <P>tried to test it and found that all instances must have at least one role, and there is no "DMC" role.</P> <P>I could change it from "Search Head" to one of the other options, but then it would just affect the default reporting of another role.</P> Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:19:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205482#M7664 jhedgpeth 2016-09-21T20:19:15Z Re: Are there any negative effects with removing the Search Head server role from the Distributed Management Console? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205483#M7665 <P>Well that stinks.</P> Fri, 23 Sep 2016 04:33:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Are-there-any-negative-effects-with-removing-the-Search-Head/m-p/205483#M7665 lguinn2 2016-09-23T04:33:49Z