IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Multicast Discovery Pluginedit
Deprecated in 2.2.0.
This plugin is deprecated and has been removed in 5.0.0
The Multicast Discovery plugin provides the ability to form a cluster using TCP/IP multicast messages.
Installationedit
This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager:
sudo bin/plugin install discovery-multicast
The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation.
This plugin can be downloaded for offline install from https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/plugin/discovery-multicast/2.4.6/discovery-multicast-2.4.6.zip.
Removaledit
The plugin can be removed with the following command:
sudo bin/plugin remove discovery-multicast
The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.