elasticsearch setup by mahara causes Elasticsearch Server status to go from green to yellow

[Robert Lyon]

When I have a newly installed Elasticsearch Server I can check it's health with:

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true'

and shows status as 'green'

but when I enable elasticsearch in mahara the status changes to 'yellow' and there are unassigned shards

we might need to have a setting in mahara to deal with non distributed (localhost) elasticsearch setups where it makes more sense to have only one shard.

In the /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml file it says:

# Note, that for development on a local machine, with small indices, it usually
# makes sense to "disable" the distributed features:
#
# index.number_of_shards: 1
# index.number_of_replicas: 0

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

have added patch to make the mahara elasticsearch respect the settings of the ElasticSearch Server for the shards/replicas
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/2865/

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2865
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/f1139ed4a50c74e33c0b07085dd9f4ad2e6a1c9d
Submitter: Aaron Wells (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit f1139ed4a50c74e33c0b07085dd9f4ad2e6a1c9d
Author: Robert Lyon <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 6 12:28:32 2014 +1300

Elasticsearch setting of shards/replicas causing problems (Bug #1265629)

Need to let mahara elasticsearch respect the shards/replicas settings
set in ElasticSearch server

Change-Id: Idafcb87ebf1d01f97b2671a3eeee9c6d15a60093
Signed-off-by: Robert Lyon <email address hidden>