Thanks for responding, below is the zoo.cfg file contents. I took this directly from the solr ref guide 7.0, for setting up an external zookeeper (https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_0/setting-up-an-external-zookeeper-ensemble.html#setting-up-an-external-zookeeper-ensemble). It did not specify the need for a "myid" field. Is that required?
# The number of milliseconds of each tick tickTime=2000 # The number of ticks that the initial # synchronization phase can take initLimit=10 # The number of ticks that can pass between # sending a request and getting an acknowledgement syncLimit=5 # the directory where the snapshot is stored. # do not use /tmp for storage, /tmp here is just # example sakes. dataDir=C:\Users\thclotworthy\DevBase\zookeeper\lib\data\1 # the port at which the clients will connect clientPort=2181 server.1=localhost:2888:3888 server.2=localhost:2889:3889 server.3=localhost:2890:3890 -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html