Deployment Architecture

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

saifuddin9122
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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??

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maraman_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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.

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maraman_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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.

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