USER MANUALS

How to Check If a Virtual DataPort Server Is Alive

When you connect to Denodo through a load balancer or an application that creates a pool of connections to Virtual DataPort, the load balancer or the application need a way to check that a connection is still valid. The following sections explain different alternatives to check the health of a connection.

Connecting from a JDBC Client Through a Load Balancer

Follow these steps when connecting from a JDBC client to Virtual DataPort through a load balancer or another intermediate resource that holds a pool of connections to Virtual DataPort:

  1. Add the parameter reuseRegistrySocket=false to the URL of the JDBC client.

  2. If the load balancer or the client will execute a ping query without support to set a timeout for that query, add the parameters pingQuery and pingQueryTimeout to the URL of the JDBC client.

The section Connecting to Virtual DataPort Through a Load Balancer of the Developer Guide explains how to use these parameters.

Using the Ping Script

The script ping checks that a Virtual DataPort server is “alive”. It is located in the directory <DENODO_HOME>/bin.

Its syntax is the following:

Syntax of the ping script
ping [-t timeout] [ -q <query> -l <login> -p <password> ] [-v]
<host>[:<port>][/<database name>
Parameters of the ping script

Parameter

Description

-t

Optional. Time to wait for a response, in milliseconds. If after this period the script does not receive a response, it returns an error.

-q <query>

Optional. If present, the script, besides checking if the Virtual DataPort server is up, it executes a query. If you indicate this parameter, you also have to pass the login and password of the user. In many operating systems, you have to surround the query with double quotes so the query is considered a single parameter.

-l

Optional, when using -q. User login for the database.

-p

Mandatory, when using -q. User password for the database. You can provide the password encrypted by prefixing it with encrypted:. (Use the script encrypt_password to encrypt the password.

-v

Optional. If present, the script displays the status the time taken to receive a response from the Server.

<host>

Host where the Server is running.

<port>

Optional. If not present, the script sends the request to the default Virtual DataPort port: 9999.

<database>

Mandatory when using -q. The database that the query will be executed.

The ping script returns 0 if the status check is successful. Otherwise, it returns 1.

An example of running the ping command is shown below:

Example 1

ping -t 30000 -v //localhost:9999

Sends a ping request to localhost and port 9999 in verbose mode with a timeout of 30 seconds.

Example 2

ping localhost

Sends a ping request to localhost. As the port is not set, the script sends the request to the default port: 9999.

Example 3

ping -t 30000 -q "SELECT 1" -l admin -p "encrypted:UjOsIu8972jviqGpcLP3Mg==" //localhost:5999/admin

Sends a ping request to localhost and port 5999 with a timeout of 30 seconds. As we indicate the parameter, -q, besides checking if the Server is alive, the script will execute a query to the database admin.

Note that the query (-q parameter) is surrounded by double quotes so the query is considered a single parameter.

The password was encrypted executing this command:

encrypt_password.bat "my password"

Alternatives to the Ping Script

In an environment where the load balancer cannot run a ping query, nor use the ping script, you can develop a script that sends an HTTP request to Virtual DataPort through the RESTful Web service.

It is important for the queried view to be very lightweight. We suggest creating this view with this statement:

CREATE VIEW ping_query_view AS
SELECT 1
FROM Dual();

When this view is queried, it only invokes the internal stored procedure Dual and does not involve any data source.

Then, develop a script that access the URL http://localhost:9090/denodo-restfulws/admin/views/ping_query_view

If this URL returns the HTTP code 200, it means that the Virtual DataPort server is alive.