node.name error during Search Server Startup

Products

• CA Service Management - Service Desk Manager
• CA Service Desk Manager

Issue/Introduction

During startup attempt of Search Server:

 

 

The searchserver-stderr.20XX-XX-XX.log files may indicate

Commons Daemon procrun stderr initialized
ElasticsearchParseException[null-valued setting found for key [node.name] found at line number [98], column number [11]]

Environment

CA Service Management 17.3 and 17.4

Resolution

Check the config.yml and elasticsearch.yml files to see if the node, hostname, and cluster nodes need to be updated

The files are located:

C:\Program Files\CA\SC\CASearchServer\search\config\config.yml
C:\Program Files\CA\SC\CASearchServer\elasticsearch-7.17.6\config\elasticsearch.yml

In the file elasticsearch.yml, line 98 should show:

node.name: SS-HOSTNAME