How to initialize a search head captain using a configuration file?

[saifuddin9122]

Hi all,

is there a way to initialize a search head captain using conf file?? as we can use CLI command to initialize one of the node as captain. i was wondering that can we do it using conf file?? if so where and what should i specify to bring the captain??

[maraman_splunk · Accepted solution]

No, it's not possible (at this time)
The way it's done, the bootstrapping process need all the search head to be there to initialize the cluster correctly.