Erick, spot on! The nodes had been registered in zookeeper under my network interface's IP address...after specifying those the command worked just fine.
It was indeed the thing I thought was true that wasn't... :) Many thanks, Savvas On 18 July 2015 at 20:47, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > P.S. > > "It ain't the things ya don't know that'll kill ya, it's the things ya > _do_ know that ain't so"... > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Erick Erickson > <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Could you post your clusterstate.json? Or at least the "live nodes" > > section of your ZK config? (adminUI>>cloud>>tree>>live_nodes. The > > addresses of my nodes are things like 192.168.1.201:8983_solr. I'm > > wondering if you're taking your node names from the information ZK > > records or assuming it's 127.0.0.1.... > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Savvas Andreas Moysidis > > <savvas.andreas.moysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Eric, > >> > >> The strange thing is that although I have set the log level to "ALL" I > see > >> no error messages in the logs (apart from the line saying that the > response > >> is a 400 one). > >> > >> I'm quite confident the configset does exist as the collection gets > created > >> fine if I don't specify the createNodeSet param. > >> > >> Complete mystery..! I'll keep on troubleshooting and report back with my > >> findings. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Savvas > >> > >> On 17 July 2015 at 02:14, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> There were a couple of cases where the "no live servers" was being > >>> returned when the error was something completely different. Does the > >>> Solr log show something more useful? And are you sure you have a > >>> configset named collection_A? > >>> > >>> 'cause this works (admittedly on 5.x) fine for me, and I'm quite sure > >>> there are bunches of automated tests that would be failing so I > >>> suspect it's just a misleading error being returned. > >>> > >>> Best, > >>> Erick > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Savvas Andreas Moysidis > >>> <savvas.andreas.moysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > Hello There, > >>> > > >>> > I am trying to use the createNodeSet parameter when creating a new > >>> > collection but I'm getting an error when doing so. > >>> > > >>> > More specifically, I have four Solr instances running locally in > separate > >>> > JVMs (127.0.0.1:8983, 127.0.0.1:8984, 127.0.0.1:8985, 127.0.0.1:8986 > ) > >>> and a > >>> > standalone Zookeeper instance which all Solr instances point to. The > four > >>> > Solr instances have no collections added to them and are all up and > >>> running > >>> > (I can access the admin page in all of them). > >>> > > >>> > Now, I want to create a collections in only two of these four > instances ( > >>> > 127.0.0.1:8983, 127.0.0.1:8984) but when I hit one instance with the > >>> > following URL: > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=collection_A&numShards=1&replicationFactor=2&maxShardsPerNode=1&createNodeSet=127.0.0.1:8983_solr,127.0.0.1:8984_solr&collection.configName=collection_A > >>> > > >>> > I am getting the following response: > >>> > > >>> > <response> > >>> > <lst name="responseHeader"> > >>> > <int name="status">400</int> > >>> > <int name="QTime">3503</int> > >>> > </lst> > >>> > <str name="Operation createcollection caused exception:"> > >>> > > >>> > org.apache.solr.common.SolrException:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: > >>> > Cannot create collection collection_A. No live Solr-instances among > >>> > Solr-instances specified in createNodeSet:127.0.0.1:8983_solr, > >>> 127.0.0.1:8984 > >>> > _solr > >>> > </str> > >>> > <lst name="exception"> > >>> > <str name="msg"> > >>> > Cannot create collection collection_A. No live Solr-instances among > >>> > Solr-instances specified in createNodeSet:127.0.0.1:8983_solr, > >>> 127.0.0.1:8984 > >>> > _solr > >>> > </str> > >>> > <int name="rspCode">400</int> > >>> > </lst> > >>> > <lst name="error"> > >>> > <str name="msg"> > >>> > Cannot create collection collection_A. No live Solr-instances among > >>> > Solr-instances specified in createNodeSet:127.0.0.1:8983_solr, > >>> 127.0.0.1:8984 > >>> > _solr > >>> > </str> > >>> > <int name="code">400</int> > >>> > </lst> > >>> > </response> > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > The instances are definitely up and running (at least the admin > console > >>> can > >>> > be accessed as mentioned) and if I remove the createNodeSet > parameter the > >>> > collection is created as expected. > >>> > > >>> > Am I missing something obvious or is this a bug? > >>> > > >>> > The exact Solr version I'm using is 4.9.1. > >>> > > >>> > Any pointers would be much appreciated. > >>> > > >>> > Thanks, > >>> > Savvas > >>> >
