splunk apply shcluster-bundle command fail with Error

[vin02]

When i am trying to run the below cluster bundle command it is throwing error message

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk apply shcluster-bundle -target https://splunk-search:8089 -auth : --answer-yes -preserve-lookups true

ERROR : Error while deploying apps to target=https://splunk-search:8089: No captain found amongst members

And when i am checking for the cluster status then also getting error

splunk show shcluster-status -auth :

ERROR: Search Head Clustering is not enabled on this node. REST endpoint is not available

Could please help me on this.

[hunters_splunk · Accepted solution]

Hi Vin02,

Obviously, your captain is down or has not been initialized in your shc. You must designate a cluster member - any instance - as the captain, which is responsible for orchestrating replication activities across your cluster. For instructions on bringing up the cluster captain, please following the steps here in the documentation:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.0/DistSearch/SHCdeploymentoverview#5._Bring_up_the_c...

Hope this helps.
Thanks!
Hunter

[koshyk]

before you apply bundle, can you please check
show shcluster-status
Run this from one of the SH member. If captain is NOT shown, you need to first setting up SHC correctly using init. Apply bundle only after you are 100% sure the SHC is setup correctly