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| Hongqing Liu | fd5ee81 | 2014-05-10 16:32:51 +0800 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | <ul><li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#Default_Implementation">Default Implementation</a></li><li><a href="#Attributes">Attributes</a><ol><li><a href="#Multicast_Attributes">Multicast Attributes</a></li></ol></li></ul>
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 | 8 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
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 | 9 |   <p>
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 | 10 |     The membership component in the Apache Tribes <a href="cluster-channel.html">Channel</a> is responsible
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 | 11 |     for dynamic discovery of other members(nodes) in the cluster.
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 | 12 |   </p>
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 | 13 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Default Implementation"><!--()--></a><a name="Default_Implementation"><strong>Default Implementation</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
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 | 14 |   <p>
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 | 15 |     The default implementation of the cluster group notification is built on top of multicast heartbeats
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 | 16 |     sent using UDP packets to a multicast IP address.
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 | 17 |     Cluster members are grouped together by using the same multicast address/port combination.
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 | 18 |     Each member sends out a heartbeat with a given interval (<code>frequency</code>), and this
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 | 19 |     heartbeat is used for dynamic discovery.
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 | 20 |     In a similar fashion, if a heartbeat has not been received in a timeframe specified by <code>dropTime</code>
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 | 21 |     ms. a member is considered suspect and the channel and any membership listener will be notified.
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 | 22 |   </p>
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 | 23 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
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 | 25 |   <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Multicast Attributes"><!--()--></a><a name="Multicast_Attributes"><strong>Multicast Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
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 | 27 |   <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>className</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 28 |       <p>
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 | 29 |       The default value is <code>org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastService</code>
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 | 30 |       and is currently the only implementation.
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 | 31 |       This implementation uses multicast heartbeats for member discovery.
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 | 32 |       </p>
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 | 33 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>address</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 34 |       <p>
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 | 35 |       The multicast address that the membership will broadcast its presence and listen
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 | 36 |       for other heartbeats on. The default value is <code>228.0.0.4</code>
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 | 37 |       Make sure your network is enabled for multicast traffic.<br>
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 | 38 |       The multicast address, in conjunction with the <code>port</code> is what 
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 | 39 |       creates a cluster group. To divide up your farm into several different group, or to 
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 | 40 |       split up QA from production, change the <code>port</code> or the <code>address</code>
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 | 41 |       <br>Previously known as mcastAddr.
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 | 42 |       </p>
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 | 43 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>port</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 44 |       <p>
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 | 45 |       The multicast port, the default value is <code>45564</code><br>
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 | 46 |       The multicast port, in conjunction with the <code>address</code> is what 
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 | 47 |       creates a cluster group. To divide up your farm into several different group, or to 
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 | 48 |       split up QA from production, change the <code>port</code> or the <code>address</code>
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 | 49 |       </p>
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 | 50 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>frequency</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 51 |       <p>
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 | 52 |       The frequency in milliseconds in which heartbeats are sent out. The default value is <code>500</code> ms.<br>
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 | 53 |       In most cases the default value is sufficient. Changing this value, simply changes the interval in between heartbeats.
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 | 54 |       </p>
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 | 55 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>dropTime</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 56 |       <p>
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 | 57 |       The membership component will time out members and notify the Channel if a member fails to send a heartbeat within 
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 | 58 |       a give time. The default value is <code>3000</code> ms. This means, that if a heartbeat is not received from a 
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 | 59 |       member in that timeframe, the membership component will notify the cluster of this.<br>
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 | 60 |       On a high latency network you may wish to increase this value, to protect against false positives.<br>
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 | 61 |       Apache Tribes also provides a <a href="cluster-interceptor.html#tcpfailuredetector"><code>TcpFailureDetector</code></a> that will
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 | 62 |       verify a timeout using a TCP connection when a heartbeat timeout has occurred. This protects against false positives.
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 | 63 |       </p>
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 | 64 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>bind</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 65 |       <p>
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 | 66 |       Use this attribute if you wish to bind your multicast traffic to a specific network interface.
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 | 67 |       By default, or when this attribute is unset, it tries to bind to <code>0.0.0.0</code> and sometimes on multihomed hosts
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 | 68 |       this becomes a problem.
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 | 69 |       </p>
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 | 70 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>ttl</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 71 |       <p>
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 | 72 |       The time-to-live setting for the multicast heartbeats.
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 | 73 |       This setting should be a value between 0 and 255. The default value is VM implementation specific.
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 | 74 |       </p>
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 | 75 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>domain</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 76 |       <p>
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 | 77 |       Apache Tribes has the ability to logically group members into domains, by using this domain attribute.
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 | 78 |       The <code>org.apache.catalina.tribes.Member.getDomain()</code> method returns the value specified here.
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 | 79 |       </p>
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 | 80 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>soTimeout</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 81 |       <p>
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 | 82 |       The sending and receiving of heartbeats is done on a single thread, hence to avoid blocking this thread forever,
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 | 83 |       you can control the <code>SO_TIMEOUT</code> value on this socket.<br>
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 | 84 |       If a value smaller or equal to 0 is presented, the code will default this value to frequency
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 | 85 |       </p>
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 | 86 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>recoveryEnabled</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 87 |       <p>
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 | 88 |       In case of a network failure, Java multicast socket don't transparently fail over, instead the socket will continuously
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 | 89 |       throw IOException upon each receive request. When recoveryEnabled is set to true, this will close the multicast socket
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 | 90 |       and open a new socket with the same properties as defined above.<br>
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 | 91 |       The default is <code>true</code>. <br>
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 | 92 |       </p>
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 | 93 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>recoveryCounter</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 94 |       <p>
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 | 95 |       When <code>recoveryEnabled==true</code> this value indicates how many times we will try recovery.
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 | 96 |       The default is <code>10</code>. <br>
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 | 97 |       </p>
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 | 98 |     </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>recoverySleepTime</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
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 | 99 |       <p>
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 | 100 |       When <code>recoveryEnabled==true</code> this value indicates how long time (in milliseconds)
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 | 101 |       the system will sleep in between recovery attempts, until we either recovered successfully or we have reached the
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 | 102 |       recoveryCounter limit.
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 | 103 |       The default is <code>5000</code> (5 seconds). <br>
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 | 104 |       </p>
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 | 105 |     </td></tr></table>
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