If No Other Cluster Members are Started

If a newly started node does not discover any running cluster nodes, the behavior is different depending on the type of discovery used:

  • If multicast discovery is used, the newly started node becomes the first node of a newly started cluster.
  • If unicast (well-known-address) discovery is used there are two cases:
    • If the address of the newly started node is not in the discover URL’s list then it continues to wait for other well-known nodes to start, and a warning is written to the console while it waits.
    • If the address of the newly started node is in the discover URL’s list, then it becomes the first node of a newly started cluster.