SearchStax

Shared Cluster Deployments

In the context of a Shared Cluster deployment, modifying your Solr config files could not be easier. SearchStax Cloud gives you direct editing access to the configs.

Dedicated Deployments

In the case of Dedicated Deployments, SearchStax Cloud operates in traditional Solr Cloud mode, meaning you must edit config files on your local computer and the upload them to your deployment. This is a somewhat fussy process involving zkcli and some elements of the Solr Collections API.

The first step in creating a new collection in a SearchStax Cloud deployment is to upload the collection’s config files to Zookeeper. Zookeeper, in turn, distributes the files across the Solr instances in your cluster.

Note that you can log into the Solr Dashboard and view the local config files that Zookeeper has distributed to that node. You can open the files to inspect them, but you cannot download or edit them from Solr.

Likewise, you can use zkcli to list, view, download, and upload config directories on Zookeeper, but you can’t edit them directly.

See What else can I do with the zkcli script? for a list of the commands that you can send to Zookeeper. In particular, note this one:

> ./zkcli.sh -zkhost <zookeeper URL> -cmd list > output.txt

which dumps a listing of your configuration files to a local text file. The listing contains files from all of the Zookeeper configsets, so it can be verbose. That’s why we channel it to a file. It can be especially useful when you need to list all of the configsets to see how many there are.

Also note:

> ./zkcli.sh -zkhost <zookeeper URL> -cmd downconfig -confdir <local-directory> -confname <config-name>

which copies a named configuration on Zookeeper to a local directory of your choice.