f5 At least one primary shard (and all of its replicas) are missing.

[theZAh]

When in BIG-IQ - System - BIG-IQ DATA COLLECTION - BIG-IQ Data Collection Cluster - Summary - Status we have a message

At least one primary shard (and all of its replicas) are missing.

And curious how to fix it.

Any ideas?

[guru]

You can reference the F5 KB article K81715478 found here but what it basically says you can delete the DCDs and re-add which is a huge pain in the butt.  You can also try and reassign unassigned shards and that also is a pain so I just go the lazy way and delete unassigned shards by running the following command on the BIG-IQ CM

curl -s -k https://localhost:9200/_cat/shards | grep UNAS | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | sed 's/+/%2B/g' | while read line ; do curl -s -k -X DELETE "https://localhost:9200/$line" ; done

After running this command you'll see messages scroll by on your screen like the following

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Once it stops scrolling you can check again the Health of the BIG-IQ Data Collection Cluster and you should see its green (Operational)