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This page describes how to create a cluster by walking through the example in the Overview. Although this example uses WSO2 ESB, these steps apply to other WSO2 products as well. For details on further configuration required for the WSO2 product you are clustering, see the links in the table of contents. Note that this page describes using WSO2 Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), but you can use a third-party load balancer in its place (for configuration details, see your load balancer's documentation).

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  1. Open the <ELB_HOME>/repository/conf/axis2/axis2.xml file.
  2. Locate the Transport Receiver section and configure the properties as follows:
    1. In the <transportReceiver name="http" class="org.apache.synapse.transport.passthru.PassThroughHttpListener"> transport, enable service requests to be sent to the ELB's default HTTP port instead of having to specify port 8280: <parameter name="port">80</parameter>
    2. In the <transportReceiver name="https" class="org.apache.synapse.transport.passthru.PassThroughHttpSSLListener"> transport, enable service requests to be sent to the ELB's default HTTPS port instead of having to specify port 8243: <parameter name="port">443</parameter>

These port values should be left as 8280 and 8243 if you are a Linux user without root privileges, because binding to ports below 1024 requires root privileges.

In the next section, we will map the host names we specified to real IPs.

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  1. Open the <ESB_HOME>/repository/conf/axis2/axis2.xml file.
  2. Locate the Clustering section and verify or configure the properties as follows (some of these properties are already set correctly by default):
    1. Enable clustering for this node: <clustering class="org.apache.axis2.clustering.tribes.TribesClusteringAgent" enable="true">
    2. Set the membership scheme to wka to enable the Well Known Address registration method (this node will send cluster initiation messages to WKA members that we will define later): <parameter name="membershipScheme">wka</parameter>
    3. Specify the name of the cluster this node will join: <parameter name="domain">wso2.esb.domain</parameter>
    4. Specify the name of the cluster this node will join (this is the domain defined in the loadbalancer.conf file on the ELB):
      <parameter name="domain">wso2.esb.domain</parameter>
    5. Specify the port used to communicate cluster messages: <parameter name="localMemberPort">4001</parameter>
      Note: This port number will not be affected by the port offset in carbon.xml. If this port number is already assigned to another server, the clustering framework will automatically increment this port number. However, if two servers are running on the same machine, you must ensure that a unique port is set for each server.

    6. The receiver's http/https port values are without the portOffset addition; they get auto-incremented by portOffset. The 'WSDLEPRPrefix' parameter should point to the worker node's host name (worker.esb.wso2.com) and ELB's http (8280)/https (8243) transport ports.

    7. Ensure that you set the value of the subDomain as mgt to specify that this is the manager node, which will ensure that traffic for the manager node is routed to this member.
      <property name="subDomain" value="mgt"/>

    8. Edit the <members> element so that it looks as follows:

      Code Block
      languagehtml/xml
      <members>
	<member>
        <hostName>elb.wso2.com</hostName>
        <port>4000</port>
    </member>
</members>

  3. Locate the port mapping section and configure the properties as follows:
    <property name="port.mapping.80" value="9764"/>
    <property name="port.mapping.443" value="9444"/>

    Note

    This configuration will change as follows if you did not configure the ELB to listen on default ports:

    Code Block
    languagehtml/xml
    <property name="port.mapping.8280" value="9764"/>
<property name="port.mapping.8243" value="9444"/>
    Info

    This value should increment based on the port offset value. In this example it is incremented by 1 since the port offset for the manager node is one.

    In a dynamically clustered set up where you front a WSO2 Carbon instance using a WSO2 ELB, it is the responsibility of a Carbon server to send its information to ELB. You can visualize this as a "member object somehow getting passed to ELB from the Carbon server instance". In the Carbon server's clustering section, under properties, you can define any member property. This way, you can let ELB know about the information other than the basic ones. Typically, this basic information includes host names, HTTP port, HTTPS port, etc.

    WSO2 ESB, WSO2 API Manager etc. are somewhat special with regard to ports as they usually have two HTTP ports (compared to one HTTP port for products like WSO2 AS). Hence, here we have to somehow send this additional information to ELB. The easiest way to do this is by setting a member property. Here, we use port.mapping property. Also, in order to front these special servers, we need two HTTP ports in ELB too, which are exposed to the outside. There's a deployment decision to be made here, i.e., which HTTP port of ELB should map to which HTTP port of the server (i.e., servlet HTTP port or NHTTP HTTP port). With that in mind, let's consider only the HTTP scenario. Say, in your ESB instance, you have used 8280 as the NHTTP transport port (axis2.xml) and 9763 as the Servlet transport port (catalina-server.xml). Also, ELB has 2 HTTP ports, one is 8280 and the other is 8290. Imagine there's a member object, and in this case, the member's HTTP port would be 8280 (usually the port defined in axis2.xml gets here). But since ELB has 2 ports, there's no way to correctly map ports, by only specifying member's HTTP port. There arises the importance of port.mapping property. You have to think of this property from the perspective of ELB.

    Let's assume we define the above property, now this means, if a request comes to ELB, in its 8290 port (see... we're thinking from ELB's perspective), forward that request to the 9764 port of the Member. Having only this property is enough, we do not need following property:

    Code Block
    languagehtml/xml
    <property name="port.mapping.8280" value="8280"></property>

    This occurs because the logic was written in a way that port.mapping properties get higher precedence over the default ports. This means, that when a request comes to ELB, ELB will first check whether the port it received the request from is specified as a port.mapping property. If it is, it will grab the target port from that property. If not, it will send the request to the default http port. Hence, if a request is received by the 8280 port of ELB, it will be automatically get redirected to 8280 port of the Member (since it's the HTTP port of Member).

    Similarly, we should define a mapping for https servlet port (8243).

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