Setting up networking
Correctly setting up networking is very important for your nodes and cluster.
There are a lot of different installation scenarios and networking issues; we will cover two kinds of networking setups in this recipe:
A standard installation with an autodiscovery working configuration
A forced IP configuration, used if it is not possible to use autodiscovery
Getting ready
You need a working ElasticSearch installation, and you must know your current networking configuration (such as your IP addresses).
How to do it...
In order to configure networking, we will perform the following steps:
With your favorite text editor application, open the ElasticSearch configuration file. Using the standard ElasticSearch configuration file (
config/elasticsearch.yml), your node is configured to bind to all your machine interfaces and does an autodiscovery of the broadcasting events, which means that it sends signals to every machine in the current LAN and waits for a response. If a node responds...
