# ZooKeeperBasedMembershipTable.InitializeMembershipTable(bool)

[Type overview](/orleans/docs/api/csharp/microsoft.orleans.clustering.zookeeper/orleans.runtime.membership.zookeeperbasedmembershiptable/) | [Methods](/orleans/docs/api/csharp/microsoft.orleans.clustering.zookeeper/orleans.runtime.membership.zookeeperbasedmembershiptable/methods/)

[Source](https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/blob/e4e752cedecc2976811db49802c7a999b1f1c704/src/Orleans.Clustering.ZooKeeper/ZooKeeperBasedMembershipTable.cs#L85-L99)

```csharp
public Task InitializeMembershipTable(bool tryInitPath)
```

Initializes the ZooKeeper based membership table.

### Parameters

- `tryInitPath` (`bool`): if set to true, we'll try to create a node named "/ClusterId"
