# Remote skip\_unavailable?how to set?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985 "2018-06-22T07:52:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![ququ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/848f3c/32.png) [@ququ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ququ)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/1 "2018-06-22T07:52:13Z")

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Follow the instrument in Cross cluster Search, use

PUT \_cluster/settings  
{  
"persistent":{  
"search.remote.cluster\*.skip\_unavailable":true  
}  
}

reply as below:  
"error":{  
"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception",  
"reason": "persisitent setting [search.remote.cluster\*.skip\_unavailable], not dynamically updateable"  
"status": 400  
}

elasticsearch version is 6.0

Anybody known how to solve this problem?

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**Author:** ![ququ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/848f3c/32.png) [@ququ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ququ)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/2 "2018-06-24T03:39:29Z")

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even set this configuration by elasticsearch.yml, still cannot work...

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/3 "2018-06-24T07:08:49Z")

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Did you restart all the nodes?

Do you have an error message at startup? What is it?

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**Author:** ![ququ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/848f3c/32.png) [@ququ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ququ)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/4 "2018-06-24T07:49:25Z")

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yes,after i configured the setting in elasticsearch.yml, then failed to restart the node and got the exception as below:  
unknown setting [search.remote.cluster\*.skip\_unavailable] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/5 "2018-06-24T08:45:23Z")

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You can not use \* but need to set the real cluster alias name.

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**Author:** ![ququ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/848f3c/32.png) [@ququ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ququ)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/6 "2018-06-24T09:21:17Z")

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thank you for reply.

i didn't use \*, but used explicit words.  
BTW, i've tried many names to eliminate name's influence.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/7 "2018-06-24T12:15:53Z")

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Oh. Sounds like you are not on 6.3 but 6.0.

This feature is not in that version. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/modules-cross-cluster-search.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/modules-cross-cluster-search.html)

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**Author:** ![ququ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/848f3c/32.png) [@ququ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ququ)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/8 "2018-06-25T01:59:06Z")

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yes, i've solve the problem by upgrading version to 6.1 and tested fine.  
Many thanks for your help.

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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:** [July 23, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-skip-unavailable-how-to-set/136985/9 "2018-07-23T01:59:07Z")

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