Clusters and preferred node
On completion of Credentials validation, auto discovery process is initiated. Once the auto discovery process is complete, all the organization, projects and clusters within Ops Manager are discovered and added as Assets. When you click on a particular asset, you will find all the details about Ops Manager, Organization, Project, and replica sets/shards within the cluster.
Steps to configure preferred node.
Click workload on the left pane.
Click tab. A list of auto discovered clusters is displayed.
Note:
The clusters and nodes which are displayed as Inactive are either deleted or removed from Third Party managed at Ops Manager.
Click the required cluster for which you want to configure the preferred node. The discovered node page is displayed.
Note:
Auto discovery is an asynchronous process that takes time to retrieve and push clusters and nodes details into the assets. This process may cause delay in displaying the details.
Click , displayed on the right side for the respective node.
Click . A Select preferred node dialog box is displayed.
Note:
For replica set, select at least one node as the preferred node for the cluster to be protection ready.
For Sharded, select at least one preferred node from each shard replica.
Arbiter node will not be displayed.
To ensure successful backups, update the policy that contains the cluster after updating the preferred nodes.
Select the required preferred node or nodes. Click .
Further, you can also arrange them as per your requirements. Click .
A success message is displayed.