I am trying to setup on my dev workstation a small SolrCloud in order to assess the faceting capability in Solr 5.5 and I have several questions.
First some context: I need to be able to add a field that uses a custom analyzer. In a perfect world I would be able to just drop the 'customanalyzer.jar' somewhere in the solr folder and trigger zookeeper to propagate that to the various cores. As I have not seen any mention of how to do that in the ref guide or online I am assuming I really do need to use the blob store thingy which is unfortunate. I have worked through the following steps, create my initial collection 'tdt2' based off of 'basic_configs' create .system collection to add jars add 'customanalyzer.jar' to .system attempt (but get errors) to 'add-runtimelib' to tdt2 collection shutdown solr so I can restart with "-Denable.runtime.lib=true" start solr run healthcheck on solr -c tdt2 and learn that tdt2 does not exist run healthcheck on solr -c .system and learn that .system does not exist So my initial questions are... how do I start solrcloud so that it 'loads' the collections that have been created? is there a more straightforward way to add a custom analyzer when using SolrCloud? what mechanism do people actually use to load plugins to solr cloud? Thanks! Stuart