Hi, 1. You should never make cluster related edits under /system/local 2. Your indexes.conf file shouldn't be in '/opt/splunk/etc/apps/search/local' but instead in /etc/master-apps folder on the cluster master. All configs to slave indexers MUST be pushed from /etc/master-apps and the recieving slaves will save those configs (indexes.conf, props.conf etc) under /etc/slave-apps. Please check your configs and you will see that your test index will be there once you get your directory strucutre sorted. HTH ... View more