Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Administration Reference

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cluster

Defines a cluster.


Note –

Some topics in the documentation pertain to features that are available only in domains that are configured to support clusters. Examples of domains that support clusters are domains that are created with the cluster profile or the enterprise profile. For information about profiles, see Usage Profiles in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Administration Guide.


Superelements

clusters

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the cluster element.

Table 1–23 cluster Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

server-ref

zero or more 

References a server instance that belongs to the cluster. 

resource-ref

zero or more 

References a resource deployed to the cluster. 

application-ref

zero or more 

References an application or module deployed to the cluster. 

system-property

zero or more 

Specifies a system property. 

property

zero or more 

Specifies a property or a variable. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the cluster element.

Table 1–24 cluster Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

name

none 

Specifies the name of the cluster. 

config-ref

default config element’s name attribute value, server-config

References the configuration used by the cluster. 

heartbeat-port

none; value automatically generated 

Specifies the communication port the Group Management Service uses to listen for group events. Must be a valid port number. 

heartbeat-address

none; value automatically generated 

Specifies the address the Group Management Service uses to listen for group events. Must be a multicast address. 

heartbeat-enabled

false (developer profile)

true (cluster and enterprise profiles)

(optional) If true, the Group Management Service is started as a lifecycle module in each server instance in the cluster and in the Domain Administration Server. The Domain Administration Server participates in each cluster that has this attribute set to true.

Properties

The following table describes properties for the cluster element.

Table 1–25 cluster Properties

Property 

Default 

Description 

gms-bind-interface-address

none 

Specifies which address the group management service uses on a multi-home machine. If a machine has only one network interface, there is no need to set this property. 

If this property is not set or is set to an invalid value on a multi-home machine, Enterprise Server uses all available addresses. The primary address is nondeterministic, because the ordering of addresses is specific to the operating system, not the Java network API used to access the network interfaces. 

You can create system-property elements to set this value differently for each server instance in the cluster. For example:

<domain>
    ...
    <clusters>
        <cluster name="cluster1" ... >
            ...
            <property name="gms-bind-interface-address"
                value="${GMS_CLUSTER1_BIND_IF_ADDR}"/>
        </cluster>
        ...
    </clusters>
    ...
    <servers>
        <server name="server1" ... >
            ...
            <system-property name="GMS_CLUSTER1_BIND_IF_ADDR"
                value="123.456.78.910"/>
        </server>
        ...
    </servers>
    ...
</domain>

cluster-ref

References a cluster.


Note –

Some topics in the documentation pertain to features that are available only in domains that are configured to support clusters. Examples of domains that support clusters are domains that are created with the cluster profile or the enterprise profile. For information about profiles, see Usage Profiles in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Administration Guide.


Superelements

lb-config

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the cluster-ref element.

Table 1–26 cluster-ref Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

health-checker

zero or one 

Defines a health checker for the referenced cluster. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the cluster-ref element.

Table 1–27 cluster-ref Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

ref

none 

References the name attribute of a cluster element.

lb-policy

round-robin

(optional) Specifies the load balancing policy. Allowed values are: 

  • round-robin — The load balancer cycles through the cluster's server instances in a specified order.

  • weighted-round-robin — The load balancer cycles through the server instances in a specified order, but routes more requests to instances with greater processing capacity. Processing capacity is represented by values of the lb-weight attribute of each server element referenced by the cluster.

  • user-defined — The load balancing policy is defined in a custom module.

lb-policy-module

none 

(optional) Specifies the absolute path to the shared library that implements the user-defined policy. The shared library must exist and be readable on the machine where the load balancer is running. 

Required only if lb-policy is set to user-defined.

clusters

Contains clusters.

Superelements

domain

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the clusters element.

Table 1–28 clusters Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

cluster

zero or more 

Defines a cluster. 

config

Defines a configuration, which is a collection of settings that controls how a server instance functions.

Superelements

configs

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the config element.

Table 1–29 config Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

http-service

only one 

Configures the HTTP service. 

overload-protection-service

only one 

Configures the overload protection service for HTTP requests. 

iiop-service

only one 

Configures the IIOP service. 

admin-service

only one 

Determines whether the server to which the configuration applies is an administration server. 

connector-service

zero or one 

Configures the connector service. 

web-container

only one 

Configures the web container. 

ejb-container

only one 

Configures the Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJBTM) container.

mdb-container

only one 

Configures the message-driven bean (MDB) container. 

jms-service

zero or one 

Configures the Java Message Service (JMS) provider. 

log-service

only one 

Configures the system logging service. 

security-service

only one 

Configures the Java EE security service. 

transaction-service

only one 

Configures the transaction service. 

monitoring-service

only one 

Configures the monitoring service. 

diagnostic-service

zero or one 

Configures the diagnostic service. 

java-config

only one 

Configures the Java Virtual Machine (JVMTM).

availability-service

zero or one 

Configures the availability service. 

thread-pools

only one 

Configures thread pools. 

alert-service

zero or one 

Configures the alert service. 

group-management-service

zero or one 

Configures the group management service. 

management-rules

zero or one 

Configures self-management rules. 

system-property

zero or more 

Specifies a system property. 

property

zero or more 

Specifies a property or a variable. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the config element.

Table 1–30 config Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

name

server-config (for default instance)

Specifies the name of the configuration. 

dynamic-reconfiguration-enabled

true

(optional) If true, any changes to the system (for example, applications deployed, resources created) are automatically applied to the affected servers without a restart being required. If false, such changes are only picked up by the affected servers when each server restarts.

configs

Contains configurations.

Superelements

domain

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the configs element.

Table 1–31 configs Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

config

only one (developer profile) 

one or more (cluster and enterprise profiles) 

Defines a configuration. 

connection-pool

Defines a pool of client HTTP connections used by the http-listener subelements of the parent http-service element.

Superelements

http-service

Subelements

none

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the connection-pool element.

Table 1–32 connection-pool Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

queue-size-in-bytes

-1

(optional) Specifies the maximum number of messages that can be queued until threads are available to process them for http-listener elements. A value of -1 specifies no limit.

max-pending-count

4096

(optional) Specifies the maximum number of pending connections on an http-listener.

receive-buffer-size-in-bytes

4096

(optional) Specifies the size of the receive buffer for all http-listener elements. A value of -1 specifies no limit.

send-buffer-size-in-bytes

8192

(optional) Specifies the size of the send buffer for all http-listener elements.

connector-connection-pool

Defines a connector connection pool.

Superelements

resources

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the connector-connection-pool element.

Table 1–33 connector-connection-pool Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

description

zero or one 

Contains a text description of this element. 

security-map

zero or more 

Maps the principal received during servlet or EJB authentication to the credentials accepted by the EIS. 

property

zero or more 

Specifies a property or a variable. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the connector-connection-pool element. Changing the following attributes requires a server restart: resource-adapter-name, connection-definition-name, transaction-support, associate-with-thread, lazy-connection-association, and lazy-connection-enlistment.

Table 1–34 connector-connection-pool Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

name

none 

Specifies the name of the connection pool. A connector-resource element’s pool-name attribute refers to this name.

resource-adapter-name

none 

Specifies the name attribute of the deployed connector-module. If no name is specified during deployment, the name of the .rar file is used. If the resource adapter is embedded in an application, then it is app_name#rar_name.

connection-definition-name

none 

Specifies a unique name, identifying a resource adapter’s connection-definition element in the ra.xml file. This is usually the connectionfactory-interface of the connection-definition element.

steady-pool-size

8

(optional) Specifies the initial and minimum number of connections maintained in the pool. 

max-pool-size

32

(optional) Specifies the maximum number of connections that can be created to satisfy client requests. 

max-wait-time-in-millis

60000

(optional) Specifies the amount of time, in milliseconds, that the caller is willing to wait for a connection. If 0, the caller is blocked indefinitely until a resource is available or an error occurs.

pool-resize-quantity

2

(optional) Specifies the number of idle connections to be destroyed if the existing number of connections is above the steady-pool-size (subject to the max-pool-size limit).

This is enforced periodically at the idle-timeout-in-seconds interval. An idle connection is one that has not been used for a period of idle-timeout-in-seconds. When the pool size reaches steady-pool-size, connection removal stops.

idle-timeout-in-seconds

300

(optional) Specifies the maximum time that a connection can remain idle in the pool. After this amount of time, the pool can close this connection. 

fail-all-connections

false

(optional) If true, closes all connections in the pool if a single validation check fails.

transaction-support

none 

(optional) Specifies the transaction support for this connection pool. Overrides the transaction support defined in the resource adapter in a downward compatible way: supports a transaction level lower than or equal to the resource adapter’s, but not higher. Allowed values in descending order are: 

  • XATransaction - Supports distributed transactions.

  • LocalTransaction - Supports local transactions only.

  • NoTransaction - No transaction support.

is-connection-validation-required

false

(optional) Specifies whether connections have to be validated before being given to the application. If a resource’s validation fails, it is destroyed, and a new resource is created and returned. 

connection-leak-timeout-in-seconds

0

Detects potential connection leaks by the application. A connection that is not returned back to the pool by the application within the specified period is assumed to be potentially leaking, and a stack trace of the caller is logged. A zero value disables leak detection. A nonzero value enables leak tracing. 

connection-leak-reclaim

false

If true, the pool will reclaim a connection after connection-leak-timeout-in-seconds occurs.

connection-creation-retry-attempts

0

Specifies the number of attempts to create a new connection. 

connection-creation-retry-interval-in-seconds

10

Specifies the time interval between attempts to create a connection when connection-creation-retry-attempts is greater than 0.

validate-atmost-once-period-in-seconds

60

Specifies the time interval within which a connection is validated at most once. Minimizes the number of validation calls. 

lazy-connection-enlistment

false

If true, a connection is not enlisted in a transaction until it is used. If false, any connection object available to a transaction is enlisted in the transaction.

lazy-connection-association

false

If true, a physical connection is not associated with a logical connection until it is used. If false, a physical connection is associated with a logical connection even before it is used.

associate-with-thread

false

If true, allows a connection to be saved as a ThreadLocal in the calling thread. This connection gets reclaimed only when the calling thread dies or when the calling thread is not in use and the pool has run out of connections.

match-connections

true

If true, enables connection matching. You can set to false if connections are homogeneous.

max-connection-usage-count

0

Specifies the number of times a connections is reused by the pool, after which it is closed. A zero value disables this feature. 

Properties

Most properties of the connector-connection-pool element are the names of setter methods of the managedconnectionfactory-class element in the ra.xml file. Properties of the connector-connection-pool element override the ManagedConnectionFactory JavaBean configuration settings.

All but the last four properties in the following table are connector-connection-pool properties of jmsra, the resource adapter used to communicate with the Sun GlassFish Message Queue software. For a complete list of the available properties (called administered object attributes in the Message Queue software), see the Sun GlassFish Message Queue 4.4 Administration Guide.

Changes to connector-connection-pool properties require a server restart.

Table 1–35 connector-connection-pool Properties

Property 

Default 

Description 

AddressList

none 

Specifies a list of host/port combinations of the Message Queue software. For JMS resources of the Type javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory or javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory.

ClientId

none 

Specifies the JMS Client Identifier to be associated with a Connection created using the createTopicConnection method of the TopicConnectionFactory class. For JMS resources of the Type javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory .

Durable subscription names are unique and only valid within the scope of a client identifier. To create or reactivate a durable subscriber, the connection must have a valid client identifier. The JMS specification ensures that client identifiers are unique and that a given client identifier is allowed to be used by only one active connection at a time. 

UserName

guest

Specifies the user name for connecting to the Message Queue software. For JMS resources of the Type javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory or javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory.

Password

guest

Specifies the password for connecting to the Message Queue software. For JMS resources of the Type javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory or javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory.

ReconnectAttempts

6

Specifies the number of attempts to connect (or reconnect) for each address in the imqAddressList before the client runtime moves on to try the next address in the list. A value of -1 indicates that the number of reconnect attempts is unlimited (the client runtime attempts to connect to the first address until it succeeds).

ReconnectInterval

30000

Specifies the interval between reconnect attempts in milliseconds. This applies to attempts on each address in the imqAddressList and on successive addresses in the list. If too short, this time interval does not give a broker time to recover. If too long, the reconnect might represent an unacceptable delay.

ReconnectEnabled

false

If true, specifies that the client runtime attempts to reconnect to a message server (or the list of addresses in imqAddressList) when a connection is lost.

AddressListBehavior

priority

Specifies whether connection attempts are in the order of addresses in the imqAddressList attribute (priority) or in a random order (random). If many clients are attempting a connection using the same connection factory, use a random order to prevent them from all being connected to the same address.

AddressListIterations

-1

Specifies the number of times the client runtime iterates through the imqAddressList in an effort to establish (or reestablish) a connection. A value of -1 indicates that the number of attempts is unlimited.

LazyConnectionEnlistment

false

Deprecated. Use the equivalent attribute. 

LazyConnectionAssociation

false

Deprecated. Use the equivalent attribute. 

AssociateWithThread

false

Deprecated. Use the equivalent attribute. 

MatchConnections

true

Deprecated. Use the equivalent attribute. 


Note –

All JMS administered object resource properties that worked with version 7 of the Enterprise Server are supported for backward compatibility.


connector-module

Specifies a deployed connector module.

Superelements

applications

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the connector-module element.

Table 1–36 connector-module Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

description

zero or one 

Contains a text description of this element. 

property

zero or more 

Specifies a property or a variable. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the connector-module element.

Table 1–37 connector-module Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

name

none 

The name of the connector module. 

location

none 

The location of the connector module in the Enterprise Server file system. 

object-type

user

(optional) Defines the type of the resource. Allowed values are: 

  • system-all - A system resource for all server instances and the domain application server.

  • system-admin - A system resource only for the domain application server.

  • system-instance - A system resource for all server instances only.

  • user - A user resource.

enabled

true

(optional) Determines whether the connector module is enabled. 

directory-deployed

false

(optional) Specifies whether the application has been deployed as a directory. 

connector-resource

Defines the connection factory object of a specific connection definition in a connector (resource adapter).

Superelements

resources

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the connector-resource element.

Table 1–38 connector-resource Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

description

zero or one 

Contains a text description of this element. 

property

zero or more 

Specifies a property or a variable. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the connector-resource element.

Table 1–39 connector-resource Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

jndi-name

none 

Specifies the JNDI name for the resource. 

pool-name

none 

Specifies the name of the associated connector connection pool, defined in a connector-connection-pool element.

object-type

user

(optional) Defines the type of the resource. Allowed values are: 

  • system-all - A system resource for all server instances and the domain application server.

  • system-admin - A system resource only for the domain application server.

  • system-instance - A system resource for all server instances only.

  • user - A user resource.

enabled

true

(optional) Determines whether this resource is enabled at runtime. 

connector-service

Configures the connector service.

Superelements

config

Subelements

none

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the connector-service element.

Table 1–40 connector-service Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

shutdown-timeout-in-seconds

30 

(optional) Specifies the maximum time allowed during application server shutdown for the ResourceAdapter.stop() method of a connector module’s instance to complete. Resource adapters that take longer to shut down are ignored, and Enterprise Server shutdown continues.

custom-resource

Defines a custom resource, which specifies a custom server-wide resource object factory. Such object factories implement the javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory interface.

Superelements

resources

Subelements

The following table describes subelements for the custom-resource element.

Table 1–41 custom-resource Subelements

Element 

Required 

Description 

description

zero or one 

Contains a text description of this element. 

property

zero or more 

Specifies a property or a variable. 

Attributes

The following table describes attributes for the custom-resource element.

Table 1–42 custom-resource Attributes

Attribute 

Default 

Description 

jndi-name

none 

Specifies the JNDI name for the resource. 

res-type

none 

Specifies the fully qualified type of the resource. 

factory-class

none 

Specifies the fully qualified name of the user-written factory class, which implements javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory.

object-type

user

(optional) Defines the type of the resource. Allowed values are: 

  • system-all - A system resource for all server instances and the domain application server.

  • system-admin - A system resource only for the domain application server.

  • system-instance - A system resource for all server instances only.

  • user - A user resource.

enabled

true

(optional) Determines whether this resource is enabled at runtime.