DB_CLUSTER Module

Daniel-Constantin Mierla

   <miconda@gmail.com>

Edited by

Daniel-Constantin Mierla

   <miconda@gmail.com>

   Copyright © 2012 asipto.com
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   Table of Contents

   1. Admin Guide

        1. Overview
        2. Dependencies

              2.1. Kamailio Modules
              2.2. External Libraries or Applications

        3. Parameters

              3.1. connection (str)
              3.2. cluster (str)
              3.3. inactive_interval (int)

        4. Usage

   List of Examples

   1.1. Set connection parameter
   1.2. Set cluster parameter
   1.3. Set inactive_interval parameter
   1.4. Set cluster parameter

Chapter 1. Admin Guide

   Table of Contents

   1. Overview
   2. Dependencies

        2.1. Kamailio Modules
        2.2. External Libraries or Applications

   3. Parameters

        3.1. connection (str)
        3.2. cluster (str)
        3.3. inactive_interval (int)

   4. Usage

1. Overview

   This module provides a generic database clustering system. It can be
   used as a middle layer between modules and database connectors.

   Via clustering, database operations can be executed across multiple
   servers, based on policies such as paraller write, serial or round
   robin write and read.

   Following database commands are considered to be write operations:
   INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, REPLACE, INSERT-DELAYED, INSERT-UPDATE. The
   read operations are done for database commands: QUERY and RAW-QUERY.

2. Dependencies

   2.1. Kamailio Modules
   2.2. External Libraries or Applications

2.1. Kamailio Modules

   The following modules must be loaded before this module:
     * db connector - database connectors.

2.2. External Libraries or Applications

   The following libraries or applications must be installed before
   running Kamailio with this module loaded:
     * None

3. Parameters

   3.1. connection (str)
   3.2. cluster (str)
   3.3. inactive_interval (int)

3.1. connection (str)

   Specify the connection to a real database system. The format is
   'conid=>DBURL' - providing a connection id and the database URL.

   Default value is NULL.

   Example 1.1. Set connection parameter
...
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "con1=>mysql://openser:openser@localhost/kamailio1")
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "con2=>mysql://openser:openser@localhost/kamailio2")
...

3.2. cluster (str)

   Specify the cluster definition. The format is
   'clsid=>conid1=def1;conid2=def2' - providing a cluster id and the list
   of database connections to be used. For each connection you have to
   provide a usage definition. The usage definition is a 4-char long
   string, specifying priority and command mode for read an write
   operations to be done on that connection.

   The priority is a digit between 0 and 9, higher value is higher
   priority. Priority 0 means that connection is not going to be used in
   that cluster.

   Command mode is a character among s, r and p. s is for doing serial
   operations (try first and if fails, try next); r is for doing round
   robin operations; p - is for doing parallel operations (this is valid
   only for write operations).

   Default value is NULL.

   Example 1.2. Set cluster parameter
...
modparam("db_cluster", "cluster", "cls1=>con1=9s8p;con2=9s8p")
...

3.3. inactive_interval (int)

   How long (seconds) a connection is considered inactive after a DB
   operations failed on it.

   Default value is 300 (5 min).

   Example 1.3. Set inactive_interval parameter
...
modparam("db_cluster", "inactive_interval", 180)
...

4. Usage

   Practically, all the modules that want to use a cluster, have to set
   their db_url parameter to "cluster://clusterid".

   Following rules apply when doing DB commands: the connecions with
   highest priority are chosen first and the operations are performed
   according to the command mode. Note that for same priority, only one
   command mode is used (the one from the first connection with that
   priority found in the definition of the cluster). If the DB command is
   not successful, next set of connections based on priority is selected
   and the command is tried again. When the command is successful, no
   other try is made.

   For parallel operations, a command is considered successful if it
   succeeded on one connection from a group with same priority.

   Next example shows how to set a cluster with two connections to MySQL
   to be used for parallel writing from acc and round-robin reading by
   sqlops.

   Example 1.4. Set cluster parameter
...
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "c1=>mysql://openser:openserrw@localhost/kamailio1")
modparam("db_cluster", "connection",
             "c2=>mysql://openser:openserrw@localhost/kamailio2")
modparam("db_cluster", "cluster", "k1=>c1=9r9p;c2=9r9p")

modparam("acc", "db_url", "cluster://k1")

modparam("sqlops", "sqlcon", "ca=>cluster://k1")
...
