On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > [ .. ] > > The option I'm trying now is to make two ping handler for skus that > join to one of items/products, which should fail on the servers which > do not support it, but I am concerned that this is a little > heavyweight for a status check to see whether we can direct requests > at this server or not.
This worked, I would still be interested in a lighter-weight approach that doesn't involve joins to see if a given collection has a shard on this server. I suspect that might require a custom ping handler plugin however. Cheers Tom