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How to delete a dead Splunk Indexer

ReginaP
Explorer

I have an indexer RHEL7 server that is DEAD.  I have no way of getting into it to run any commands.  I was able to remove it from the Index Cluster using: 

splunk remove cluster-peers -peers <guid>

 However, it is still in the Monitoring Console as an instance unreachable.  How can I fully remove it?

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ReginaP
Explorer

This worked: 

Settings > Monitoring Console > Settings > General Setup > Apply Changes

isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

login MC node.

you need to go MC -> Settings -> General 

Then remove/disable/apply that page.

If this doesn’t help, then go first Settings-> Distributed Search -> peers (or something similar). Remove it from there if it’s still there. Then remove it again from MC side.

 

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