servers-attribute of distsearch.conf not visible

vicky05ssr — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:12:57 GMT

Hello I need a small clarification over distsearch.conf.

As per the documentation, to connect the SH with Indexer. One can configure in SH using any of the 3 ways : CLI, GUI & Conf file. The doc nicely describes it, Thanks for that.

In my case, the splunk env was already setup in my organisation. Now I am not aware which way was followed for adding search peer to search head.

Now in the SH GUI the "settings-->Distributed search-->Search peers" server entry is visible, and also the SH fetches the data from Indexer nicely. But my problem is I am not able to find out in which conf file that server settings are stored.

I tried to locate the distsearch.conf inside whole of splunk dir, but I could not find the server settings in anywhere. Further I tried to debug with btool cmd in SH and was surprised to see, even in that the servers settings are not visible.

Summarizing the Problem : The setting is visible in GUI, but no clue in which conf file that setting is getting stored.

Re: servers-attribute of distsearch.conf not visible

micahkemp — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:24:30 GMT

splunk btool distsearch list --debug

Re: servers-attribute of distsearch.conf not visible

vicky05ssr — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:33:56 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I did try that, but no entries for servers in the output of above cmd. I have put the output of the above cmd below and also the settings from the GUI.

The GUI shows the settings, but the conf file doesn't have it stored anywhere.

GUI proof:

CMD output :

`[splunk@test_serverSH bin]$ ./splunk btool distsearch list --debug
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [bundleEnforcerBlacklist]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [bundleEnforcerWhitelist]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [distributedSearch]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf authTokenConnectionTimeout = 5
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf authTokenReceiveTimeout = 10
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf authTokenSendTimeout = 10
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf bestEffortSearch = false
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf connectionTimeout = 10
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf disabled = false
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf peerResolutionThreads = 0
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf receiveTimeout = 600
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf sendTimeout = 30
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf serverTimeout = 10
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf servers =
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf shareBundles = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf statusTimeout = 10
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf useSHPBundleReplication = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [replicationBlacklist]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf conf = (system|(apps/))/(default|local)/server.conf
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf framework = apps/framework/...
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf sampleapp = apps/sample_app/...
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf user_specific_meta = users(/_reserved)?///metadata/local.meta
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [replicationSettings]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf allowDeltaUpload = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf allowSkipEncoding = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf allowStreamUpload = auto
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf concerningReplicatedFileSize = 50
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf connectionTimeout = 60
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf maxBundleSize = 1024
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf maxMemoryBundleSize = 10
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicationThreads = 5
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf sanitizeMetaFiles = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf sendRcvTimeout = 60
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [replicationSettings:refineConf]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.app = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.authorize = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.collections = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.commands = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.eventtypes = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.fields = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.literals = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.multikv = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.props = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.segmenters = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.tags = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.transactiontypes = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf replicate.transforms = true
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [replicationWhitelist]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf other = (system|(apps/(?!pdfserver))|users(/_reserved)?//)/(bin|lookups)/...
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf refine.conf = (system|(apps/)|users(/_reserved)?//)/(default|local)/.conf
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf refine.metadata = (system|(apps/)|users(/_reserved)?//)/metadata/.meta
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf searchscripts = searchscripts/...
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf [tokenExchKeys]
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf certDir = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/distServerKeys
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf genKeyScript = $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk, createssl, audit-keys
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf privateKey = private.pem
/opt/splunk/etc/system/default/distsearch.conf publicKey = trusted.pem

[splunk@test_serverSH bin]$ `

Re: servers-attribute of distsearch.conf not visible

patrick_castro — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:01:47 GMT

I am experiencing the exact same problem.

Version: 9.2.4 Build: c103a21bb11d

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