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Search Error SharePoint 2013

I have been troubleshooting an issue with the Search Service Application in our SharePoint 2013 environment, and not having much luck with finding a solution. I'm trying to avoid rebuilding the SSA if at all possible.

these are the errors:

    Search application 'a8af725e-5b01-4461-93c7-b47f45fc33ce-crawl-0' 
    appears to be malfunctioning and will be reinitialized.

    Gatherer\CSS connector failed to connect to CSS 
    net.tcp://sp-app01/5D77E4/ContentProcessingComponent1/ContentSubmissionServices/content

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Our Server Configuration:

2 WFE's (4 CPU/16gb RAM)

1 Search/Application (Another VM is being provisioned for handling the Search Role)
(4 CPU/16gb RAM)

1 SQL Server (4 CPU/16gb RAM)

Pankaj Parmar

Were you able to access SSA earlier?
Are all SSA databases are in healthy state?
Can you restart the server and see if SSA is accessible after restart.

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Justin Smith

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brendanlefavre

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Creating a second SSA did allow for bringing the search application on-line. in the end it could have been resolved by creating a new SSA, or creating a second SSA to run in parallel. I went the path of removing the original SSA, and creating a new one.

Justin Smith

Great. Please close the question out.

brendanlefavre

ASKER

creating a second SSA or recreating the SSA would both work as solutions