I have setup Cluster master, indexer cluster & Search head cluster. I have a new environment for monitoring console. When I go to Settings > Monitoring Console > Settings > General Setup & switch to Distributed mode servers are not showing up under remote instances. Can someone help me on it.
Nope. Can you provide me the guidelines to add it.
Settings -> Distributed Environment -> Distributed Search -> Search Peers -> Add New
As I said before - for SHC you only need to add the CM, the indexers should populate automatically. The rest of the components you need to add one by one.
Then in the distributed monitoring console you'll have to set up roles for each of those components.
When enabling the MC to run in distributed mode, these are the steps that need to be followed:
Once the Cluster Manager is added as a Deployment Server search peer, the indexers automatically appear as remote instances on the Monitoring Console
Here https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/monitor/9.4/configure-the-monitoring-console... is instructions what you need to do.
Remember that you cannot put MC in any instance you want, instead of that you must select correct one. Then as earlier said add all needed nodes as search peers except clusters where you should add only cm.
As @PickleRick said, DS is just one node. Actually don’t configure MC as an additional role for DS! In almost any environment you should have dedicated DS without any other roles!
No. DS has nothing to do with MC.
And did you add your components as search peers to your MC? (for the indexer cluster you only need to add the CM)