Github user merrimanr commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/934 I agree with @justinleet. I would prefer we use Solr 6+. At some point HDP Search will move to 6+ and we can easily switch to the Mpack since installing Solr is a manual step now. Happy to document that once we are all in agreement. As for the parameters we expose in Ambari, I'm referring to the parameters stored in Zookeeper that the SolrWriter reads. They are: - solr.zookeeper - solr.commitPerBatch - solr.commit.waitSearcher - solr.commit.waitFlush - solr.commit.soft - solr.collection - solr.http.config Currently Ambari only exposes the "solr.zookeeper" parameter which is necessary to get the indexing topology writing to Solr. I think a reasonable solution would be to include all the others except "solr.http.config" since it's an advanced config. Storm tuning parameters are independent of the writer implementation and already exposed in Ambari. For the collection service actions, it would mirror what we expose for ES: creating and deleting templates (schemas in Solr terms).
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