I'm creating it from scratch, 8080,9887 is not in listen state. i'm unable to connect to master from peer ProxyConfig  - Failed to initialize http_proxy from server.conf for splunkd. P lease make sure that the http_proxy property is set as http_proxy=http://host:port in case HTTP proxying needs to be enabled. INFO ProxyConfig  - Failed to initialize https_proxy from server.conf for splunkd. Please make sure that the https_proxy property is set as https_proxy=http://host:port in case HTTP proxying needs to be enabled. INFO ProxyConfig - Failed to initialize the proxy_rules setting from server.conf f or splunkd. Please provide a valid set of proxy_rules in case HTTP proxying needs to be enabled. INFO ProxyConfig - Failed to initialize the no_proxy setting from server.conf for splunkd. Please provide a valid set of no_proxy rules in case HTTP proxying needs to be enabled. INFO WatchedFile  - File too small to check seekcrc, probably truncated. Will re-re ad entire file='/opt/splunk/var/log/introspection/http_event_collector_metrics.log'. WARN SSLOptions  - server.conf/[search_state]/sslVerifyServerCert is false disab ling certificate validation; must be set to "true" for increased security  WARN SSLOptions- <internal>.conf/[<internal>]/sslVerifyServerCert is false disabling certificate validation; must be set to "true" for increased security  IntrospectionGenerator:resource_usage - RU_main - I-data gathering (Resource Usage) starting; period=10s ... View more

hi @isoutamo  yes, this is on indexer cluster - on all 3 nodes ID1,ID2,ID3 yes, master node is up and running, I can see no error logs from splunkd.log from master ... View more

hi @phanichintha , is this issue resolved ? if yes, could you post you solution, even I am facing the same issue https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/ERROR-CMSlave-Waiting-for-the-cluster-manager-to-come-up/m-p/704380#M28826 ... View more