How do I remove a search head from an Indexer Cluster?

[lguinn2]

I have been building an indexer cluster. As part of my testing, I created several search heads and added them to the cluster.
Then I killed some of the search heads.

The search heads still appear on the Cluster Master's dashboard under the "Search Heads" tab. Of course, the search heads I want to remove are listed as "Down"

How do I get rid of these?

[esix_splunk · Accepted solution]

This is correct. Once you restart the Cluster Master node, the removed SH / IDX Peers will be removed from the display.

[hemendralodhi]

Hi, I have seen this in the past with our deployment and even after bringing down SH they appear in CM. I restarted CM and all SH which were marked down got removed from the list.