JBoss AS7 sharing multicast address when using clustering with standalone-ha.xml - jboss7.x

I am using standalone-ha.xml to cluster JBoss 7.1.1.Final.
Can I use the same multicast address for all the sockets? I.e. jgroups-diagnostics, jgroups-mping, jgroups-udp, modcluster?

Yes definitely. Simply need to use unique ports for each different service. I.e. jgroups-diagnostics, jgroups-mping, jgroups-udp, modcluster?

Related

How to setup Redis cluster behind a load balancer?

We want to set up Redis 6.2 clustering behind a LB. There are only master nodes and there is no Redis Sentinel being used. Each cluster-enabled Redis instance is running on a different host with the same configuration (eg. all of them are configured with port 6379). Is this possible with some port configuration on the LB such that a unique port on an LB maps to a unique_ip:6379?
Our idea is to use a cluster-aware Redis client like Lettuce RedisClusterClient which would issue CLUSTER NODES/SLOTS commands or react to MOVED/ASK redirection. It would also take care of split up a pipeline into using separate connections based on the slot for a command
It seems like this is not possible to achieve if the same port is used on all Redis hosts. Using https://docs.redis.com/latest/rs/networking/cluster-lba-setup/ as a guide, the best we could manage was to configure each Redis with a unique port and set cluster-announce-ip as the virtual IP (points to LB) and then manually make sure that the same port is used on LB as the Redis host. With this, the CLUSTER SLOTS and MOVED responses from Redis hosts could be correctly acted upon by the client. But this complicates our setup when a new Redis host has to be added or removed
You can use Route 53 if you're on AWS to achieve this.
Create A setup like this:
Add all hosts(IP addresses) in Route 53 and set TTL to smaller values like 30 seconds or so. Route 53 will return one of these Redis IP addresses, using this endpoint Redis clients like Lettuce or Jedis will discover all the Redis nodes.
You can use any other DNS system as well, record type should be A.

Apache Ignite | TCP discovery SPI

What is TCP discovery SPI in Apache Ignite and what it does?
What 127.0.0.1:47500..47509 in example-cache.xml of apache ignite?
Apache Ignite nodes are all the same and join together automatically to form a cluster. The "Discovery" mechanism is how they find each other, by using the IP address and port of at least 1 other Ignite node to join the rest of the cluster.
TCP Discovery uses a TCP connection to the addresses and ports specified.
127.0.0.1:47500..47509 is a shortened notation that says contact IP 127.0.0.1 (also known as your localhost) and use ports from 47500 to 47509.
This is used in the example code so you can easily run a few instances of Ignite for testing on your computer and they all will connect to each other as a cluster, even though they are all running on the same machine.
This is a component responsible for nodes discovery. Please refer to this page for details: https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/tcpip-discovery

Not able to RDP to VMs which are Standard SKU Loadbalanced in Azure

I had created a standard Public IP and standard Load balancer and 2 VMs and configured NAT rule to map port 5000 to 3389.
But when I try to RDP to I am not able connect to the VM.
The same configuration when I do with Basic LoadBalancer it works fine. Is there any extra configuration I need to do for standard LoadBalancer?
Also there is no NSG configured.
For a Standard Load Balancer NSG is mandatory. Without it NAT rule will not working.

Clustering doesn't work with mod_cluster on JbossAS7 - Stateful Application

I'm going to explain my situation.
Background:
I'm running three virtual machines with Debian Jessie on Open Nebula, one as master and the other two as slaves. In them i've installed JBoss AS 7.1 and mod_cluster 1.2.
Goal:
Run a stateful app, so when I shutdown the master server the cluster allows me to continue using the app with shared session and mantain the variables values.
I followed this guide with the given web application.
Errors:
I can't access directly the app at http://master/cluster-demo/ like as in the guide above, I have to specify the port (8330 for server-three).
When I shutdown server-three the slaves notices that the server is shutted down but the session is not shared and the application is no more accessible. This is the output on slave when i shoutdown server-three on master.
Configuration Files
I attach my configuration files:
/opt/jboss/domain/configuration/domain.xml
/opt/jboss/httpd/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/opt/jboss/domain/configuration/host.xml in the master
/opt/jboss/domain/configuration/host.xml in the slaves
Answer
mod_cluster does not have anything in common with messaging (JMS, HornetQ) subsystems. mod_cluster setting also does not have anything in common with clustering subsystem, i.e. Infinispan and its workhorse, JGroups.
What AS7 mod_cluster subsystem does is that is listens to UDP multicast advertising messages emitted by Apache HTTP Server mod_cluster modules. When it receives such message, it registers itself with your Apache HTTP Server load balancer. From that moment, your registered AS7 "worker" node keeps sending specialized HTTP messages (via TCP), informing Apache HTTP Server about:
its name (jvmRoute or generated)
its current load
its deployments, i.e. application contexts
aliases etc.
When there are no worker nodes registered with your Apache HTTP Server balancer, there are no contexts, hence there is nowhere to forward your requests to.
According to the configuration you posted, you rely on UDP multicast messages being sent to/received from 224.0.1.105:23364.
Open Nebula, firewall and UDP multicast
It is possible that Open Nebula doesn't allow UDP multicast between hosts or that your iptables are blocking it. Try this:
use curl on your worker host to access the balancer host -- exactly the VirtualHost where you have the directive EnableMCPMReceive defined.
if it doesn't work, you must fix iptables, selinux, httpd's allow/deny and such
if it works, it's a good sign that worker can talk to the balancer
go to your AS7 xml, modcluster subsystem, and add attribute to the config: <mod-cluster-config advertise-socket="modcluster" proxy-list="your-httpd-address:port"> -- the one you've just tried with curl
now it should work even without UDP multicast
if you would like to debug your UDP multicast settings in Open Nebula, give it a shot with Advertize.java
1.2.0 is too old, do not use vulnerable code
Please, do not use mod_cluster 1.2.0 with your Apache HTTP Server. The version is completely obsolete and it contains serious bugs, including a code injection CVE and severe performance issue. Download mod_cluster 1.3.1.Final for httpd 2.4.x or build your own from the sources, if you desire httpd 2.2.x support. If you happen to need any any help with that, ask.

Redis: OK to put on a multi-homed system?

We want to use a single Redis server for servers that span two subnets.
If we put Redis on just subnet A, the servers on B will have to go across a router to get to redis.
Our thought is to make the Redis server multi homed (multiple nics), attached to both subnets A and B.
1) Will this work?
2) Will Redis then attach to both IP's?
Thanks!
You can provide the bind address in the redis configuration file (bind parameter).
Now if you comment out the definition and do not provide a bind address, Redis will listen to its port on all the interfaces (i.e. it will listen to 0.0.0.0).
I did not try, but I would say a configuration with 2 addresses should work.