Is it normal that each time I restart an indexer, I have to manually add it back in the search head Distributed Management Console to search on them?

[AlexCUbisoft]

Hello,

Is it normal that every time indexers restart, we have to manually add them back in the search head DMCs before we can search on them?

Thanks
ciao
Alex

[ykou_splunk]

The indexers should automatically re-appear when restart finished.

[neelamssantosh]

Just for confirmation.
Have you implemented clustering ..

[AlexCUbisoft]

Hello!

Yes, we have 6 indexers that are in a cluster with a cluster master.
We have 3 searchheads used for different clients.

When we restart one of the indexers, if we go in the DMC, in "Indexing Performance: Deployment"
we see there's a missing indexer, the one we restarted. Our searches return gaps in them.

To be able to search from that indexer again, in the DMC, we to go in "Setup" , although there we see all the indexers properly configure, we simply have to click "Apply Changes". Back in "Indexing Performance: Deployment", the missing indexer is there. And we can do searches on everything.

Thanks for the help!
ciao
Alex