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List Cluster Nodes

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      The nodes of a cluster can be listed, and details on each retrieved.

      Listing Nodes

      Couchbase Server allows the nodes of a cluster to be listed, and data retrieved on each.

      Examples on This Page

      The examples in the subsections below show how the nodes of the same cluster can be listed, using the UI, the CLI, and the REST API respectively.

      The examples assume:

      • A two-node cluster already exists; as at the conclusion of Join a Cluster and Rebalance.

      • The cluster has the Full Administrator username of Administrator, and password of password.

      List Nodes with the UI

      All nodes in the current cluster can be viewed on the Servers screen of Couchbase Web Console. Note that this display is identical for all nodes in the cluster: therefore, whether you open the console on node one or node two of a two-node cluster, the same information is provided.

      Proceed as follows:

      1. Access the Couchbase Web Console Servers screen, on either node 10.142.181.101 or node 101.142.181.102, by left-clicking on the Servers tab in the left-hand navigation bar. The display is as follows:

        twoNodeClusterAfterRebalanceCompressedView

        This indicates that the cluster currently consists of the nodes 10.142.181.101 and 101.142.181.102. Each row provides the following details:

        • name: The name of the node. In this case, each node is named after its IP address.

        • group: The Group occupied by the node. For information, see Server Group Awareness.

        • services: The services running on the node. For information, see Services.

        • CPU: The percentage of available CPU resources currently occupied.

        • RAM: The percentage of available RAM currently occupied. For information on Couchbase memory-management, see Memory.

        • swap: The percentage of available swap space in use.

        • disk used: The amount of disk space currently used, in megabytes.

        • items: The number of active and replica items currently on the node, in thousands. If the figure is 15.2 K/15.8 K, this indicates that 15.2 K items are in active vBuckets on the node, and 15.8 in replica. For information on vBuckets, see vBuckets.

      2. To see further details of each node, left-click on the row for the node. The row expands vertically, as follows:

        twoNodeClusterAfterRebalance

        The additional information now shown includes:

        • Name, Version, Uptime, OS version, and Data Service RAM Quota.

        • Storage Paths for the Data, Index, Eventing, and Analytics services, specified during node-initialization.

        • Currently available memory and disk-space.

      3. Left-click on the Statistics tab for 10.142.181.101, at the right-hand side of the row. The Statistics screen is displayed. This provides statistics related to each of the buckets on the cluster. These include information on the Active Data Size, Data Total Disk Size, and Data Fragmentation. For more information, see Monitor with the UI.

      List Nodes with the CLI

      To list the nodes of a cluster with the CLI, use the server-list command, as follows:

      couchbase-cli server-list -c 10.142.181.101:8091 \
--username Administrator \
--password password

      The output is as follows:

      ns_1@10.142.181.101 10.142.181.101:8091 healthy active
ns_1@10.142.181.102 10.142.181.102:8091 healthy active

      On occasions when a node is inactive or failed, output of the following kind is produced:

      ns_1@10.142.181.101 10.142.181.101:8091 healthy active
ns_1@10.142.181.102 10.142.181.102:8091 healthy inactiveFailed

      Alternatively, the CLI host-list command can be used:

      couchbase-cli host-list -c 10.142.181.102:8091 --username Administrator --password password

      Note that the command above specifies the second node in the cluster: any node-name in the cluster can be used, with the same results. The output is as follows:

      10.142.181.101:8091
10.142.181.102:8091

      Thus, the command returns a list of IP addresses and Couchbase Web Console port numbers.

      For more information, see the command reference for server-list and host-list.

      List Nodes with the REST API

      To list all nodes in a cluster by means of the REST API, use the /pools/default URI. A Couchbase pool represents computing resources (such as machines, memory, CPU, and disks) that are used to host Couchbase buckets. Couchbase Server clusters support a single pool, named default.

      The method returns a large amount of information, which includes many of the details used in the Couchbase Web Console Statistics panel, described above. The output may be unformatted, and thereby difficult to read until formatting is applied.

      The following call passes the result to the jq command-line JSON processor for formatting, and then uses the standard command-line utility grep to reduce the output to available hostnames:

      curl  -u Administrator:password -v -X GET \
http://10.142.181.101:8091/pools/default | jq '.' | grep hostname

      The output is as follows:

      "hostname": "10.142.181.101:8091",
"hostname": "10.142.181.102:8091",

      For more information, see Retrieving Cluster Information.

      Next Steps

      Now that you have built a cluster and examined the nodes it contains, learn details on how to Remove a Node and Rebalance.