https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137721#M7537 <P>To remove an indexer from your cluster permanently use:</P> <PRE><CODE>splunk offline --enforce-counts </CODE></PRE> <P>You can watch the progress on the indexer clustering dashboard.</P> <P>See this answer: <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/104575/remove-peer-from-cluster-then-re-add.html">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/104575/remove-peer-from-cluster-then-re-add.html</A></P> <P>The Splunk Doc: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Indexer/Takeapeeroffline">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Indexer/Takeapeeroffline</A> </P> Tue, 09 Jun 2015 03:19:32 GMT dflodstrom 2015-06-09T03:19:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137718#M7534 <P>Hi,</P> <P>What are the required steps to permanently remove a member from a cluster? </P> Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:41:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137718#M7534 a212830 2015-06-06T13:41:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137719#M7535 <P>You may want to clarify, an indexer cluster (single site / multi-site) or a search head cluster?</P> Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:57:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137719#M7535 acharlieh 2015-06-06T13:57:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137720#M7536 <P>Sorry - single-site indexer cluster. </P> Sat, 06 Jun 2015 15:20:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137720#M7536 a212830 2015-06-06T15:20:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137721#M7537 <P>To remove an indexer from your cluster permanently use:</P> <PRE><CODE>splunk offline --enforce-counts </CODE></PRE> <P>You can watch the progress on the indexer clustering dashboard.</P> <P>See this answer: <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/104575/remove-peer-from-cluster-then-re-add.html">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/104575/remove-peer-from-cluster-then-re-add.html</A></P> <P>The Splunk Doc: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Indexer/Takeapeeroffline">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Indexer/Takeapeeroffline</A> </P> Tue, 09 Jun 2015 03:19:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Steps-to-remove-a-cluster-member-permanently/m-p/137721#M7537 dflodstrom 2015-06-09T03:19:32Z