---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Stalker <jrs.developer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: To cluster or not to cluster for management purposes]
To: Paul Sterk <Paul.Sterk_at_sun.com>
Ahh, I believe I just figured it out: I don't want a cluster.
I want to have my node agents each to start a stand alone server, then
target my various JMS resources and EAR to the individual stand-alone
servers.
Not sure why your email tipped me off, but thanks!
John
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:15 PM, John Stalker <jrs.developer_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> Thanks for the link. I have done a bit of poking, but most (ie all) of
> what I come across is the reverse: I've got a cluster set up, but my JMS
> isn't clustering!
> I'll keep poking around, but thanks for the link nonetheless.
> John
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Paul Sterk <Paul.Sterk_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Forwarding to users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net.
>>
>> Jeff, have you searched the users_at_glasfish archive[1]? There are a number
>> of emails related to clustering that may help you.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> [1] https://glassfish.dev.java.net/servlets/SearchList?listName=users
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: To cluster or not to cluster for management purposes
>> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:05 -0400
>> From: John Stalker <jrs.developer_at_gmail.com>
>> To: users-owner_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>> References: <
>> 3a093ef80810230916l703cf756k9115e5dc111a2b56_at_mail.gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am using v2u2 to set up a management only cluster, meaning I'm not
>> trying to load-balance or have HA enabled for any of the services (web,
>> ejb, jms), just the ability to deploy an EAR to a single location and
>> push to a bunch of server instances, as well as having the ability to
>> monitor all the instances from a single place...at least I think I need
>> a cluster.
>> I have a DAS set up and several node agents (one per physical host) all
>> in the same domain, I've also set up a single server instance per node
>> agent that reference the same server configuration.
>> In this configuration, I have set all the Availability Services enabled
>> to false (Availability Service, Web Container Availability, EJB
>> Container Availability, and JMS Availability). I have also configured
>> the Java Message Service type to LOCAL. Also, I have left the
>> default_JMS_host as is and have not added any other hosts to the list.
>> As far as JMS resources go, I have created a single ConnectionFactory
>> and a single Queue both set to target the cluster.
>> Here's where I get in trouble.
>> The cluster (and all server instances) start up just fine, except that I
>> appear to be getting MQ clustering for free, even though I don't want
>> it. I'm trying to have a single MQ per server instance without
>> clustering. Thus, I'm trying to have messages sent to an MQ instance
>> processed via MDB by only the co-located server instance. As it stands,
>> I send a message to a queue on one instance and it's processed by the
>> MDB of one of the other server instances.
>> Looking at this: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3679/abdbk?a=view
>> WRT the LOCAL Java Message Service setting, it mentions that I could
>> "set the type to LOCAL and give each Application Server instance a
>> different default JMS host" but I'm not sure how to accomplish that
>> given that the server configuration is shared across all the instances
>> in the cluster.
>> Hopefully that is enough information.
>> Thanks so much for any input,
>> John
>>
>>
>