Something strange happened, in my Solr 6.6.5 cloud (1 collection, 5 shards, 3 replica) the leader is stuck on offline node for shard3.
I already tried setting property preferredLeader to true on the active core_node5 and called REBALANCELEADERS but nothing happened. In the response of REBALANCELEADERS was nothing about shard3. It feels like it doesn't know anything about core_node5. Any idea how to fix this? <lst name="shard3"> <str name="range">e6660000-1998ffff</str> <str name="state">active</str> <lst name="replicas"> <lst name="core_node5"> <str name="core">base1_shard3_replica1</str> <str name="base_url">http://server05.myip.com:8983/solr</str> <str name="node_name">server05.myip.com:8983_solr</str> <str name="state">active</str> <str name="property.preferredleader">true</str> </lst> <lst name="core_node7"> <str name="core">base1_shard3_replica2</str> <str name="base_url">http://server02.myip.com:8983/solr</str> <str name="node_name">server02.myip.com:8983_solr</str> <str name="state">down</str> <str name="leader">true</str> </lst> <lst name="core_node11"> <str name="core">base1_shard3_replica3</str> <str name="base_url">http://server03.myip.com:8983/solr</str> <str name="node_name">server03.myip.com:8983_solr</str> <str name="state">down</str> </lst> </lst> </lst> Regards, Bernd