Use the CLI To add a search peer, run this command from the search head: splunk add search-server ://: -auth : -remoteUsername -remotePassword Note the following: is the URI scheme: "http" or "https". is the host name or IP address of the search peer's host machine. is the management port of the search peer. Use the -auth flag to provide credentials for the search head. Use the -remoteUsername and -remotePassword flags for the credentials for the search peer. The remote credentials must be for an admin-level user on the search peer. For example: splunk add search-server https://192.168.1.1:8089 -auth admin:password -remoteUsername admin -remotePassword passremote You must run this command for each search peer that you want to add. https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.2/DistSearch/Configuredistributedsearch You can refer to the above link. Hope this help, Thanks ! ... View more