diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc index 81d882f5f0eb6..b44e769ec3bf2 100644 --- a/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc @@ -41,21 +41,23 @@ driven specifically from those nodes. Remote clusters set via the in the cluster. The `elasticsearch.yml` config file for a node that connects to remote clusters -needs to list the remote clusters that should be connected to, for instance: +needs to list the remote clusters that should be connected to. The format for each +`seeds` entry is `remote_host`:`transport.tcp.port`, for instance: [source,yaml] -------------------------------- cluster: remote: cluster_one: <1> - seeds: 127.0.0.1:9300 - cluster_two: <1> seeds: 127.0.0.1:9301 + cluster_two: <1> + seeds: 127.0.0.1:9302 -------------------------------- <1> `cluster_one` and `cluster_two` are arbitrary _cluster aliases_ representing the connection to each cluster. These names are subsequently used to distinguish -between local and remote indices. +between local and remote indices. In this example, `cluster_one` is using port `9301` +for transport, and `cluster_two` is using port `9302`. The equivalent example using the <> to add remote clusters to all nodes in the cluster would look like the