i am able to delete the down/unused cores which does not actually a core but it have an entry in state.json using the DELETEREPLICA API.
/admin/collections?action=DELETEREPLICA&collection=collection name&shard=shardname&replica=(dead/unused core name listed in state.json) eg: /admin/collections?action=DELETEREPLICA&collection=collection name&shard=shardname&replica=core_node3 -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Nodes-appear-twice-in-state-json-tp4274504p4275797.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
