# Installing ELK7 - Configuration changes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065 "2019-07-31T08:05:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![moti.mor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@moti.mor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/moti.mor)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065/1 "2019-07-31T08:05:40Z")

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Hi Guys,  
we are working with ELK 6.8.1 until today. we are going to install a fresh ELK7 with fresh and clean.  
i understand that the cluster configuration changed.  
Please see the configuration that i have on my master in 6. what should i change?  
should i remove this from 7?  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["192.168.11.3", "192.168.11.4"]

what should i add instend of this?

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**Author:** ![pmusa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pmusa/32/3498_2.png) [@pmusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmusa)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065/2 "2019-07-31T09:15:18Z")

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This is the new equivalent setting: `discovery.seed_hosts: ["192.168.11.3", "192.168.11.4"]`

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/discovery-settings.html#unicast.hosts](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/discovery-settings.html#unicast.hosts)

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**Author:** ![moti.mor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@moti.mor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/moti.mor)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065/3 "2019-07-31T09:18:15Z")

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thank you. @pmusa and what is this?  
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes:  
what should i configure here?

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**Author:** ![pmusa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pmusa/32/3498_2.png) [@pmusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmusa)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065/4 "2019-07-31T09:38:51Z")

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you can find a lot of info in the docs 🙂

As your cluster is already running, you should not worry about it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elk7-configuration-changes/193065/5 "2019-08-28T09:38:55Z")

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