Master Node Failure Impact on Search

[hemendralodhi]

Hello,

As per documentation Search Head queries Master to get list of peers and direct request to them and in case of Master failure all operations - search/replication will work until one peer node failure. I am confused as how search will work with Master down as SH gets list of peers from Masters?

Thanks
Hemendra

[jkat54 · Accepted solution]

the search head gets the list of peers when you join it to the cluster and then it will periodically poll the master for any changes. When the master is down, the search head won't hear of any changes and it will keep the same "generation id" and therefore "remember" it's peers.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.9/Indexer/Whathappenswhenamasternodegoesdown

[hemendralodhi]

Thanks for the explanation. Correct on Search head too we can see the list of peers.
This was helpful.

[jkat54]

Please mark this as the answer if it is. Thanks in advance and happy to help.