When we connect to remote clusters, there may be a few more routers/firewalls in-between compared to when we connect to nodes in the same cluster. We've experienced cases where firewalls drop connections completely and keep-alives seem not to be enough, or they are not properly configured. With this commit we allow to enable application-level pings specifically from CCS nodes to the selected remote nodes through the new setting `cluster.remote.${clusterAlias}.transport.ping_schedule`. The new setting is similar `transport.ping_schedule` but it does not affect intra-cluster communication, pings are only sent to specific remote cluster when specifically enabled, as they are disabled by default.
Relates to #34405
With remote clusters taking on a larger role, we have make the
infrastructure more generic than being tied to cross-cluster search
(CCS). We want to refer to the remote clusters configuration in the
cross-cluster replication (CCR) docs. Yet, these docs are still tied to
CCS. This commit extracts the remote clusters docs from CCS (with some
wording changes to make them more general) so that we can refer to them
in the CCR docs.
Luca Cavanna
Jason Tedor