Turns out it was a versioning issue - we were running slightly different versions of elasticsearch on the two not replicating. I upgraded these and now it's working wonderfully.
Thanks for your help. Cheers On Friday, 16 January 2015 12:40:54 UTC, Stewart Gray wrote: > > Hi, > > Plenty of disk space on the two machines not receiving shards - there is a > symbolic link from /var/lib/elasticsearch to a 400gb drive on each. If I > get logstash to log to elasticsearch on one of these, and remove it from > the cluster I see the indicies being created in the right place. > > The configuration is exactly the same on all machines (apart from the > obvious stuff, node name, and other node IP addresses). > > Cheers > > On Friday, 16 January 2015 12:28:52 UTC, vineeth mohan wrote: >> >> Hi , >> >> Can you check the following - >> >> 1. Disk space on the machine where shards are not getting used. >> 2. See the configuration of the node in those machines. See if the >> client node only config is enabled in the config. >> >> Thanks >> Vineeth >> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Stewart Gray <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I have a new elasticsearch cluster with 4 nodes and for some reason I >>> can't get the shards distributed across all of these. Shards are only being >>> copied to 2/4 rather than all of them which is what I'm after. >>> >>> The config is the same on each: >>> >>> cluster.name: elasticsearch >>> node.name: "xxxxx" >>> gateway.expected_nodes: 4 >>> discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 3 >>> discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false >>> discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["1.1.1.1", "1.1.1.2", "1.1.1.3"] >>> >>> The rest is default. Any thoughts? >>> >>> >>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cl8e-SyNVao/VLj6G0wHHrI/AAAAAAAAASU/-QxhgWUoC3Q/s1600/ScreenHunter_353%2BJan.%2B16%2B11.44.jpg> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "elasticsearch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/9ce6e841-2a03-46be-8e63-3590f752d6bf%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/9ce6e841-2a03-46be-8e63-3590f752d6bf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fc277656-5f8d-46c4-9cd0-057a9d2da630%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
