https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484610#M82983 <P>Hi , We have a distributed deployment environment , we have 6 indexers clustered , we have 3 search head clustered , we are adding a standalone new indexer , we are not adding this indexer to the existing cluster. </P> <P>We want the data that is lying on this standalone indexer to be searchable from our search head cluster , I tried to add it through GUI by going to distributed search but after adding it to one search head, its got added successfully, while I am trying it to add to other search heads its not adding- it's saying it encountered the following error while trying to save: </P> <PRE><CODE>Failed to proxy search-server command request to Captain. Reason : ERROR: A peer with uri of <A href="https://xxxx" target="test_blank">https://xxxx</A> already exists. </CODE></PRE> <P>Please help me.</P> Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:13:58 GMT Prakash493 2019-09-20T14:13:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484610#M82983 <P>Hi , We have a distributed deployment environment , we have 6 indexers clustered , we have 3 search head clustered , we are adding a standalone new indexer , we are not adding this indexer to the existing cluster. </P> <P>We want the data that is lying on this standalone indexer to be searchable from our search head cluster , I tried to add it through GUI by going to distributed search but after adding it to one search head, its got added successfully, while I am trying it to add to other search heads its not adding- it's saying it encountered the following error while trying to save: </P> <PRE><CODE>Failed to proxy search-server command request to Captain. Reason : ERROR: A peer with uri of <A href="https://xxxx" target="test_blank">https://xxxx</A> already exists. </CODE></PRE> <P>Please help me.</P> Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:13:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484610#M82983 Prakash493 2019-09-20T14:13:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484611#M82984 <P>read here all the way and follow docs:<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/DistSearch/Connectclustersearchheadstosearchpeers#Search_head_cluster_with_non-clustered_indexers">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/DistSearch/Connectclustersearchheadstosearchpeers#Search_head_cluster_with_non-clustered_indexers</A></P> <P>hope it helps</P> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:33:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484611#M82984 adonio 2019-09-24T22:33:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484612#M82985 <P>added the indexer address to the host file of the sh , Because the dns name is not able to resolved.</P> Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:07:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Error-while-adding-standalone-indexer-to-search-head-cluster/m-p/484612#M82985 Prakash493 2019-09-25T20:07:24Z