USER MANUALS

Configuring Several Instances of a Virtual DataPort Server

It is possible to launch two or more instances of a Virtual DataPort Server at the same time, in the same host. Each instance is executed independently, which means that each one is a different process of the operating system. However, all of them share the same metadata (data sources, views, etc.) and the same embedded Web container.

When executing two or more instances of the same Server, one of the instances is the Master and the others are the Slaves. The Master instance has to be launched before the Slave instances.

Only the Master instance can modify the metadata of the Server (create / edit / remove data sources, views, etc.).

When modifying the metadata, you have to restart all the Slave instances so they “see” the changes. That is because the Slaves only read the metadata from the Master when they are launched.

When defining a JMS listener, the Master instance is the only one that opens the connection to the JMS server.

Virtual DataPort uses an embedded Derby database to store the metadata created by its users (data sources, views, etc.) The Slave instances have access to the metadata of the elements by connecting to the embedded database of the Master Server.

How to Configure the Slave Instances

Let us say that we want to add two new Slave instances called aux_1 and aux_2. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the file <DENODO_HOME>/conf/vdp/VDBConfiguration.properties and add the following properties:

vdp.instances=aux_1,aux_2

com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_1.registryURL=localhost
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_1.registryPort=19999
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_1.shutdownPort=19998
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_1.factoryPort=19997
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_1.odbcPort=19996

com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_2.registryURL=localhost
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_2.registryPort=29999
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_2.shutdownPort=29998
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_2.factoryPort=29997
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.aux_2.odbcPort=29996

Note that for each element of the property vdp.instances, you have to add the following properties:

com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.<name of the instance>.registryURL
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.<name of the instance>.registryPort
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.<name of the instance>.shutdownPort
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.<name of the instance>.factoryPort
com.denodo.vdb.vdbinterface.server.VDBManagerImpl.<name of the instance>.odbcPort

  1. Optionally, you can configure the options of the JVM for each new instance. To do this, add the following properties to the file <DENODO_HOME>/conf/vdp/VDBConfiguration.properties.

java.env.aux_1.DENODO_OPTS_START=-mx2048m -XX\:MaxPermSize\=256m
java.env.aux_1.DENODO_OPTS_STOP=-mx64m

java.env.aux_2.DENODO_OPTS_START=-mx2048m -XX\:MaxPermSize\=256m
java.env.aux_2.DENODO_OPTS_STOP=-mx64m

The property DENODO_OPTS_START has the JVM options that the instance will launched with.

The property DENODO_OPTS_STOP has the JVM options that the script that stops the Server will be launched with.

The Servers defined in the property vdp.instances that do not have the variables DENODO_OPTS_START and DENODO_OPTS_STOP defined, will be launched with the JVM options of the Master server.

Note

The characters : and = have to be escaped with the character \.

  1. Execute the script <DENODO_HOME>/bin/regenerateInstanceScripts.

    This script will create the directory <DENODO_HOME>/bin/instances, which will contain the scripts to launch the Slave instances of the Master Server.

    For each instance, there will be:

    1. A script to launch the instance: vqlserver_<name of the instance>_startup

    2. A script to stop the instance: vqlserver_<name of the instance>_shutdown

      To stop the instance with the “Safe shutdown mode”, execute vqlserver_<name of the instance>_shutdown safe

      When doing this, the instance will stop accepting new connections and it will not shut down until all the queries have finished.

    3. If running the Server in Windows, a script to create a new Windows service, remove it, launch and stop the service: vdpservice_<name of the instance>.bat

  2. Launch the Master instance before the Slave instances. You can do it from the Denodo Control Center or executing the script <DENODO_HOME>/bin/vqlserver_startup.bat.

  3. Launch the Slave instances by executing the following scripts: <DENODO_HOME>/bin/instances/vqlserver_aux_1_startup <DENODO_HOME>/bin/instances/vqlserver_aux_2_startup

  4. In the slave instances, disable the Cache Maintenance Task.

    To do this, open the dialog “Cache” of the “Administration > Server configuration” menu and select Maintenance Off.

  5. To stop the instances, you have to stop the Slave instances first and after this, the Master.

Now you can connect to any of the three instances (the Master or the Slaves) to query views. However, you have to connect to the Master instance to modify the metadata of the Server. That is, to create/edit/delete data sources, views, publish Web services, etc.

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