From d74e25a778a1b84475e0c101101da5c3a0294c41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lisa Cawley Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:53:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Edits the remote clusters documentation (#38996) --- docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc index 768eb7d6117..ea53a55160b 100644 --- a/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/modules/remote-clusters.asciidoc @@ -2,25 +2,25 @@ == Remote clusters ifndef::include-xpack[] -The _remote clusters_ module allows establishing uni-directional connections to -a remote cluster. This functionality is used in +The _remote clusters_ module enables you to establish uni-directional +connections to a remote cluster. This functionality is used in <>. endif::[] ifdef::include-xpack[] -The _remote clusters_ module allows establishing uni-directional connections to -a remote cluster. This functionality is used in cross-cluster replication, and +The _remote clusters_ module enables you to establish uni-directional +connections to a remote cluster. This functionality is used in +{stack-ov}/xpack-ccr.html[cross-cluster replication] and <>. endif::[] Remote cluster connections work by configuring a remote cluster and connecting only to a limited number of nodes in the remote cluster. Each remote cluster is -referenced by a name and a list of seed nodes. When a remote cluster is +referenced by a name and a list of seed nodes. When a remote cluster is registered, its cluster state is retrieved from one of the seed nodes so that by default up to three _gateway nodes_ are selected to be connected to as part of remote cluster requests. Remote cluster connections consist of uni-directional connections from the coordinating node to the previously selected remote nodes -only. It is possible to tag which nodes should be selected through node -attributes (see <>). +only. You can tag which nodes should be selected by using node attributes (see <>). Each node in a cluster that has remote clusters configured connects to one or more _gateway nodes_ and uses them to federate requests to the remote cluster. @@ -173,6 +173,6 @@ PUT _cluster/settings [[retrieve-remote-clusters-info]] === Retrieving remote clusters info -The <> allows to retrieve +You can use the <> to retrieve information about the configured remote clusters, as well as the remote nodes that the node is connected to.