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Search service is not able to connect to Administration component server – SP 2010
Posted by on July 20, 2012
Action – I tried to create new SharePoint Search Application from central Administration and after trying to explore search service application e.g. search service application diag below is the error that i saw for Crawl field:
Error : The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘abff6ca0-1e01-4bf4-9653-b26ea54d1e5f’ in search application ‘SP2010 – Search Service Application’ is in a good state and try again.
Solution:
Execute below command from SharePoint 2010 powershell command and refresh page from central administration where you were getting error:
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Eerily similar to http://blogs.technet.com/b/poojk/archive/2011/11/28/sharepoint-2010-search-service-is-not-able-to-connect-to-administration-component-server.aspx
I receive an error when I run the last command. The error is: "set-spenterprisesearchadministrationcomponent -searchapplication $varSearchApp -searchserviceinstance $varInstanceSet-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Cmdlet.SearchServiceApplicationPipeBind' required by parameter 'SearchApplication'. Specified method is not supported.At line:1 char:65+ set-spenterprisesearchadministrationcomponent -searchapplication <<<< $varSearchApp -searchserviceinstance $varInstance + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-SPEnterpris…rationCo mponent], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.Office.Server.Se arch.Cmdlet.SetSearchAdministrationComponent"
Please refer below article – would help you.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff608039.aspx
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