Thanks. If I understand what you are saying, it should automatically register itself with the existing cluster if we start SOLR with the correct command line options. We tried adding the numShards option to the command line but still get the same outcome.
We start the new SOLR server using /usr/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -server -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Dsolr.solr.home=/mnt/ephemeral/solr -Dport=8080 -DhostContext=solr -DnumShards=1 -DzkClientTimeout=15000 -DzkHost=<zk ip address> -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/endorsed -classpath /mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/bin/bootstrap.jar:/mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47 -Dcatalina.home=/mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/mnt/ephemeral/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start Regards Ade -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Adding-a-server-to-an-existing-SOLR-cloud-cluster-tp4100275p4100286.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.