The cluster state will be yellow while shards are being rebalanced, so you can just execute a cluster healt request and wait for green status:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-health.html#request-params You can also poll the same API and wait until all the moving shards (relocating_shards, initializing_shards, unassigned_shards) are 0. Cheers, Ivan On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:03 AM, sagarl <sagar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our requirement is as follows: > > We have our ES cluster running on aws instances where nodes can come and > go. We would like to disable Shard reallocation on cluster in Normal state > so that Node going down should not rebalance the shards.(Just to avoid > unnecessary Network i/o). > > When node comes back up (within few minutes), we would like to enable it > so that new node will get back it's own shards and after rebalancing is > finished, we would like to Disable Shard reallocation again. > > We would like this to be an automated process rather than manual one. > > I have already taken a look at following stackoverflow question/answer > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16231614/quick-recovery-after-node-restart-in-elasticsearch> > but I am not sure if it can work in automated way. > > curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_cluster/settings -d > '{"transient":{"cluster.routing.allocation.enable": "none"}}' > /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart > curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_cluster/settings -d > '{"transient":{"cluster.routing.allocation.enable": "all"}}' > > > So I would like to know, is there any way to Listen to the event which > says "Shard Rebalancing is finished" (by adding a new listener) and then > disable cluster.routing.allocation.enable Property ? > > -- Thanks > > -- > 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/cee6bef8-25cf-4175-ac53-f2734d44ea76%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cee6bef8-25cf-4175-ac53-f2734d44ea76%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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQCXbKF%3DDCig3xhe48yb40Tb88tLXRH2kNk3w4OxJq62aQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
