If you call /solr/zookeeper on a specific node, that servlet would tell you - output is a bit verbose for what you want though.
- Mark On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Robert Stewart <robert_stew...@epam.com> wrote: > I would like to be able to do it without consulting Zookeeper. Is there some > variable or API I can call on a specific Solr cloud node to know if it is > currently a shard leader? The reason I want to know is I want to perform > index backup on the shard leader from a cron job *only* if that node is a > shard leader. > > Bob
