@livehybrid , thank you for your response, unfortunately we need to set the election to false remotely on each member . So guess that is not possible with api call as we do not have POST.   Will look into other possibilities. Thank you again ... View more

Am trying to set the kvstore captain in maintenance mode, but when i try set the kvstore captain in maintenance mode, it says that maintenance mode can only be set on the "static captain" I can switch to static captain using the following command successfully splunk edit shcluster-config -mode captain -captain_uri <URI>:<management_port> -election false But i have to set election to false on  non-captain members for which am trying to the curl command which fails curl -k -u username:password -X POST -d '{"mode":"member", "captain_uri":"https://captain.example.net:port","election":"false","target_uri":"https://member.example.net:port"}' https://member.example.net:port/services/shcluster/config/ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <messages> <msg type="ERROR">Cannot perform action "POST" without a target name to act on.</msg> </messages> </response> As per the documentation I can only see the get call (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.4.2/RESTREF/RESTcluster#shcluster.2Fconfig) Are there any other alternatives to set the election=false for the non-captain members remotely   ... View more

Is there a rest call to set the election as false from the captain for each cluster member , instead of logging into each seach head member and running the command  /opt/splunk/bin/splunk edit shcluster-config -mode member -captain_uri https://your-Captain-SH-address:8089 -election false   ... View more

Thank you for the suggestion. We were able to restore kvstore even without changing the dynamic captain   ... View more