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1. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
pedrosalazar Jun 24, 2004 1:54 PM (in response to marlig)Greetings,
I'm looking for the same answer, but I try to add more to the question:
Besides the ip multicast, the "partition name" in cluster-service.xml has any effect?
regards,
Pedro Salazar. -
2. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
darranl Jun 25, 2004 6:20 AM (in response to marlig)Personally I prefer to change the multicast address as it splits up the clusters by making one configuration change.
If you change the partition name there are other configuration files that refer to the partition name that will also need to be changed.
I don't have the list of files that would need changing but if you search these forums the list has been discussed quite a few times in the past. -
3. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
jiwils Jun 25, 2004 11:37 AM (in response to marlig)"darranl" wrote:
I don't have the list of files that would need changing but if you search these forums the list has been discussed quite a few times in the past.
The list of files for JBoss 3.2.4 based on the "all" configuration is:
* deploy/cluster-service.xml
* deploy/jbossha-httpsession.sar/ClusteredHttpSessionEB.jar/META-INF/jboss.xml
* deploy/deploy-hasingleton-service.xml
You can search for "DefaultPartition" and find what you need to change, but do not do a global replace. You only need to change this setting where it describes the name of the partition not the DefaultPartition itself.
We use system property substitution in all of these places (we use something like ${partition.name} in the files in place of the partition name) so that we can specify the name of the partition as a system property on the command line. This makes it a "one setting" change for us as well. -
4. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
pedrosalazar Jun 25, 2004 12:31 PM (in response to marlig)Hi,
so, in my understanding we have 2 options for having a jboss in cluster:
1. changing the ip_multicast and/or port for JGROUPS and AutoDiscovery
2. changing the PartitionName.
It's obvious that the alternative 1) is more simpler than number 2). So, when does the alternative 2) makes sense to use?
thanks,
Pedro Salazar. -
5. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
slaboure Jun 25, 2004 12:50 PM (in response to marlig)when you get paid by the hour ;)
Cheers,
sacha
P.S.: or when you need two partitions for the SAME node, you need two different name to reference them, but in that case you ALSO need to change the multicast IP -
6. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
jiwils Jun 25, 2004 12:52 PM (in response to marlig)"pedrosalazar" wrote:
It's obvious that the alternative 1) is more simpler than number 2). So, when does the alternative 2) makes sense to use?
I am not sure that alternative 2 is really that much harder to "implement" (once you know what files to change), but it does mean that you have to specify the partition name for your clustered EJBs in their jboss.xml descriptor as well since they will use "DefaultPartition" for the partition name if one is not specified. It would be nice if this "default" could be set as well so that the assumed partition name would be what we set the partition name to be upon startup, but that is another topic...
For us, alternative 2 made sense because if you change the multicast IP/port, you have to keep up with that information so you do not have two configurations clobbering each other. It is true that you have to keep up with the various partition names (as opposed to ip/port information) with this alternative, but we already had a mechanism that could do that (our clusters already have a naming convention).
In the future, we may use both methods in order to get the best configuration across all of our clusters. -
7. Re: How to easily separate clusters from each other?
pedrosalazar Jun 25, 2004 1:22 PM (in response to marlig)For the client perspective, changing the PartitionName will affect directly the normal way of invoking an EJB for instance. Below, I have a sample of jndi.properties (provider.url is commented):
# jndi.properties java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces #java.naming.provider.url=localhost:1099 jnp.partitionName=DefaultPartition
In this perspective, changing the "PartitionName" in my jboss cluster configuration will affect the clients (they need to change the partition name property). But, if I change only the ip_multicast and/or port, how can I decide which cluster I want to invoke if I have 2 groups of clusters in my network?
thanks,
Pedro Salazar
P.S.- I don't get paid by the hour ;-)