DMC: Search heads shown as heavy forwarders?

[cdoebert]

I'm in a setup with a license/deployment server, three clustered search heads and a deployer, and three non-clustered indexers.

Per the documentation on setting up the DMC, I'm setting it up on the deployer. It picked up the indexers, but I can't get it to pick up my search heads and I'm not sure why. When I turn on forwarder monitoring, my search heads show up as heavy forwarders.

How do I get the search heads to show up in the DMC?

[cdoebert · Accepted solution]

This is fixed in an extremely odd way. I had to edit the server roles for the license/deployment server (even though it picked them up automatically) so I could get the error for a deployment server to have another role and accept it, and then all the servers that weren't indexers graduated from "New" to "Configured".

[renjith_nair]

Add those as search peers.

Try this

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/DMC/Addinstancesassearchpeers

[cdoebert]

I followed that and added the entire environment, and everything shows up in the general setup tab, but I still see only the indexers in the overview and none of the other tabs (aside from indexing) work.