Can't start search server

Products

• CA Service Management - Service Desk Manager

Issue/Introduction

After upgrade to CA SDM 17.34, Search Server cannot start 

The searchserver-stderr log file has error similar to "null value line 98 node name"

Environment

Release : 17.4

Resolution

Edit the elasticsearch.yml file in Search Server-install-folder\elasticsearch-7.17.6\config

node.name: <Search Server hostname>

network.host: <Search Server hostname>

cluster.name: ca_es_cluster

cluster.initial_master_nodes: <Search Server hostname>
discovery.seed_hosts: <Search Server hostname>
http.port: 9012

Save the changes and then start the Search Server from Windows Services