Hi,
I was setting up SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 with SQL 2012.
- SP15 RTM
- 2 WFE Servers
- 2 Application Servers
- All Search Components on both Application Servers
I also had the problems described obove:
Search Administration in Central Admin:“Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running.”
I did the whole search configuration via PowerShell. I always got an error while activating the search topology ($SearchTopology.Activate()).
My Solution: I gave db_owner rights on all search databases and local admin rights on all search servers to the search service account. After activating the topology I could remove those rights again.
Search works now for me. Sutiuation reminds me of installing the user profile service in sp14. :-)