# IDO master - set prefered host

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/ido-master-set-prefered-host/5749>\
**Category:** Icinga 2\
**Tags:** ido\
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/ido-master-set-prefered-host/5749 "2020-10-09T12:11:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/martin/32/3229_2.png) [@martin](https://community.icinga.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/ido-master-set-prefered-host/5749/5 "2020-10-14T09:56:28Z")

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Hello,

This topic might help. 🙂  
I created it before seeing this thread.

> [@Choose the preferred IDO active endpoint](https://community.icinga.com/t/choose-the-preferred-ido-active-endpoint/5786):
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> Hello! This is to continue the previous archived topic: [https://monitoring-portal.org/t/icinga2-master-ha-active-endpoint/701](https://monitoring-portal.org/t/icinga2-master-ha-active-endpoint/701) I had the same problem: I wanted to decide which of the 2 masters is the “preferred IDO master”. This is for optimization purposes. My DB cluster is located in Northern Europe. I have 2 Icinga masters: one in Eastern Europe, and one next to Northern Europe. When both masters are UP, it was sad to see the Eastern Europe master was automatically chosen as the IDO mas…

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