Elasticsearch php api with multiple hosts

I followed this link to create an elasticsearch 2 nodes cluster on Azure: this
link http://thomasardal.com/running-elasticsearch-in-a-cluster-on-azure/

the installation and configuring went good.

When i started to check the cluster i found a strange behaviour from the
php client.

I declared 2 hosts in the client:

$ELSEARCH_SERVER = array("dns1:9200","dns2:9200");
$params = array();
$params['hosts'] = $ELSEARCH_SERVER;
$dstEl = new Elasticsearch\Client($params);

the excpected behaviour is that it will try to insert the documents to
"dns1" and if it fails it will automatically change to "dns2". but, for
some reason when one of the servers is down on insertion the php client
throws an exception that it couldn't connect to host and only.

Is there any way to cause the client automatically choose an online server?

thnx, Niv

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Solution: After debugging the the elasticsearch php client I found a retry
mechansim that allows the client to jump to the next server from the pool
if the previous is down.
this mechanism is disabled by default

to enable this mechanism you need to initialize the Client with a parameter
called retries:

$params = array();
$params['hosts'] = $ELSEARCH_SERVER;    
$params['retries'] = count($ELSEARCH_SERVER);
$dstEl = new Elasticsearch\Client($params);

Hope it will help you guys

On Monday, August 18, 2014 2:52:31 PM UTC+3, Niv Penso wrote:

I followed this link to create an elasticsearch 2 nodes cluster on Azure: this
link http://thomasardal.com/running-elasticsearch-in-a-cluster-on-azure/

the installation and configuring went good.

When i started to check the cluster i found a strange behaviour from the
php client.

I declared 2 hosts in the client:

$ELSEARCH_SERVER = array("dns1:9200","dns2:9200");
$params = array();
$params['hosts'] = $ELSEARCH_SERVER;
$dstEl = new Elasticsearch\Client($params);

the excpected behaviour is that it will try to insert the documents to
"dns1" and if it fails it will automatically change to "dns2". but, for
some reason when one of the servers is down on insertion the php client
throws an exception that it couldn't connect to host and only.

Is there any way to cause the client automatically choose an online server?

thnx, Niv

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