It is usually handled automatically.
If autodiscovery doesn't work. Edit the elastic search config file, by enabling unicast discovery
Node 1:
cluster.name: mycluster node.name: "node1" node.master: true node.data: true discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["node1.example.com"] Node 2:
cluster.name: mycluster node.name: "node2" node.master: false node.data: true discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["node1.example.com"] and so on for node 3,4,5. Make node 1 master, and the rest only as data nodes.
Edit: Please note that by ES rule, if you have N nodes, then by convention, N/2+1 nodes should be masters for fail-over mechanisms They may or may not be data nodes, though.
Also, in case auto-discovery doesn't work, most probable reason is because the network doesn't allow it (and therefore disabled). If too many auto-discovery pings take place across multiple servers, the resources to manage those pings will prevent other services from running correctly.
For ex, think of a 10,000 node cluster and all 10,000 nodes doing the auto-pings.
原文链接：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16821101/how-to-set-up-es-cluster
