The link you provided is for transient settings, meaning they will reset once the cluster restarts. Doing this via the configurations file ensures the settings are loaded back.
As Mark said, this is cluster level settings. If you have nodes with different HD characteristics you probably want to use percentages for the watermark values. -- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Michel Conrad < michel.con...@trendiction.com> wrote: > What if I set the option in the configuration file, will it then only > be applied to the node reading the configuration file? > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mark Walkom <ma...@campaignmonitor.com> > wrote: > > It's a cluster level setting, so all nodes use the same one. > > As far as I know, there is no node level setting. > > > > Regards, > > Mark Walkom > > > > Infrastructure Engineer > > Campaign Monitor > > email: ma...@campaignmonitor.com > > web: www.campaignmonitor.com > > > > > > On 16 May 2014 17:43, Michel Conrad <michel.con...@trendiction.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Is it possible to specify different thresholds for different nodes in > >> the cluster? I could not find it in the documentation, when updating > >> the setting through the cluster settings as described on > >> > >> > http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-allocation.html#disk > >> the threshold is applied to every node. > >> > >> When specifing the thresholds through the configuration file, will it > >> then be only applied to the node reading the configuration? In this > >> case how to I prevent the cluster settings being applied and > >> overwriting the configuration file (remove a setting). > >> > >> Thanks for any thoughts, > >> Michel > >> > >> -- > >> 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAH0sEYgM4%3DmH2cA3wJoBQAmx82ddrz6N%3D8u3XE0EFoKoOwTUUQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > >> 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624a6tk9jqGkh_ED%3Dx_bpJPxpiydP9_KxTugrBVZuX5yaCw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAH0sEYjc5DAO4mW%2B%3DnrgDfxbEd%2BYxwcn1vZ9jXxBNm1N%2BH9%3D1Q%40mail.gmail.com > . > 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAHTr4ZtTZfb%2B0uJSxohd685pCAcEgxZXSg_SYeu9izq%3D4_1zjQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.