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The following sections give you information and instructions on how to cluster the message broker profile of WSO2 EI with a third-party load balancer.  

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This pattern has two WSO2 EI nodes to serve service requests with high availablity availability and scalability. The following image depicts the sample pattern this clustering deployment scenario will follow.

Tip

This pattern uses two nodes as well-known members . It is always recommended to have all nodes of the cluster as well-known members.

brokering profile clusterImage RemovedImage Added

Warning

When configuring your WSO2 products for clustering to host them in your production environment, it is necessary to use a specific IP address and not localhost or host names in your configurations.

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All profiles of WSO2 EI uses a database to store information such as user management details and registry data. All nodes in the cluster must use one central database for config and governance registry mounts. You can create the following databases and associated datasources.

Warning

The embedded H2 database is suitable for development. However, for most enterprise testing and production environments, it is recommended to use an industry-standard RDBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, etc.

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WSO2_USER_DB

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Database NameDescription
WSO2_USER_DB
JDBC user store and authorization manager
REGISTRY_DBShared database for config and governance registry mounts in the product's nodes
REGISTRY_LOCAL1Local registry space in
the manager node
Node 1
REGISTRY_LOCAL2Local registry space in
the worker node
Node 2

In addition to the databases listed above, the Message Broker profile of WSO2 EI requires the following broker-specific data:

Database NameDescription
MB_DB
Stores instance data that are specific to the message broker profile.

 

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Warning

It is recommended to use an industry-standard RDBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, etc. for most enterprise testing and production environments. However, you can also use the embedded H2 database only for the REGISTRY_LOCAL1 and REGISTRY_LOCAL2.

Follow the steps given below to create the databases required for the Message Broker profile of WSO2 EI. 

  1. Download and install the MySQL Server.

  2. Download the MySQL JDBC driver.

  3. Download and unzip the WSO2 EI binary distribution. 

    Tip

    Throughout this guide, <EI_HOME> refers to the extracted directory of the WSO2 EI product distribution.

  4. Unzip the downloaded MySQL driver, and copy the MySQL JDBC driver JAR (mysql-connector-java-x.x.xx-bin.jar) to the <EI_HOME>/lib/ directory of both the WSO2 EI nodes.

  5. Add the following line to the /etc/hosts file to define the hostname for configuring permissions for the new database: <MYSQL-DB-SERVER-IP> carbondb.mysql-wso2.com

    Note

    Do this step only if your database is not on your local machine and on a separate server.

  6. Execute the following command in a terminal/command window, where username is the username you want to use to access the databases: mysql -u username -p

  7. Specify the password to access the databases with the username you specified when prompted.

  8. Create the databases using the following commands:

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    languagesql
    mysql> create database WSO2_USER_DB;
mysql> use WSO2_USER_DB;
mysql> source <EI_HOME>/dbscripts/mysql.sql;
mysql> grant all on WSO2_USER_DB.* TO regadmin@"carbondb.mysql-wso2.com" identified by "regadmin";

mysql> create database REGISTRY_DB;
mysql> use REGISTRY_DB;
mysql> source <EI_HOME>/dbscripts/mysql.sql;
mysql> grant all on REGISTRY_DB.* TO regadmin@"carbondb.mysql-wso2.com" identified by "regadmin";

mysql> create database REGISTRY_LOCAL1;
mysql> use REGISTRY_LOCAL1;
mysql> source <EI_HOME>/dbscripts/mysql.sql;
mysql> grant all on REGISTRY_LOCAL1.* TO regadmin@"carbondb.mysql-wso2.com" identified by "regadmin";
 
mysql> create database REGISTRY_LOCAL2;
mysql> use REGISTRY_LOCAL2;
mysql> source <EI_HOME>/dbscripts/mysql.sql;
mysql> grant all on REGISTRY_LOCAL2.* TO regadmin@"carbondb.mysql-wso2.com" identified 
by "regadmin";
    Info
    titleAbout using MySQL in different operating systems

    For users of Microsoft Windows, when creating the database in MySQL, it is important to specify the character set as latin1. Failure to do this may result in an error (error code: 1709) when starting your cluster. This error occurs in certain versions of MySQL (5.6.x) and is related to the UTF-8 encoding. MySQL originally used the latin1 character set by default, which stored characters in a 2-byte sequence. However, in recent versions, MySQL defaults to UTF-8 to be friendlier to international users. Hence, you must use latin1 as the character set as indicated below in the database creation commands to avoid this problem. Note that this may result in issues with non-latin characters (like Hebrew, Japanese, etc.). The following is how your database creation command should look.

    mysql> create database <DATABASE_NAME> character set latin1;

    For users of other operating systems, the standard database creation commands will suffice. For these operating systems, the following is how your database creation command should look.

    mysql> create database <DATABASE_NAME>;

  9. Create and configure the MB_DB database, which is specific to the message broker profile using the following commands:

    Tip

    <EI_HOME> , username and password are the same as those you specified in the previous steps.

    Code Block
    languagesql
    mysql> create database wso2_mb;
mysql> use wso2_mb;
mysql> source <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/dbscripts/mb-store/mysql-mb.sql;
mysql> grant all on wso2_mb.* TO username@localhost identified by "password";

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Note

Note the following when adding these configurations:

  • The existing dbConfig called wso2registry must not be removed.
  • The datasourceyouspecifyin the <dbConfig name="sharedregistry"> tag must match the JNDI Config name you specify in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml file.

  • The registry mount path denotes the type of registry. For example, ”/_system/config” refers to configuration Registry, and "/_system/governance" refers to the governance registry.

  • The <dbconfig> entry enables you to identify the datasource you configured in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml file. The unique name "shared registry" referstothatdatasource entry.

  • The <remoteInstance> section refers to an external registry mount. Specify the read-only/read-write nature of this instance, caching configurations and the registry root location in this section.

  • Also, specify the cache ID in the <remoteInstance> section. This enables caching to function properly in the clustered environment.

    Note

    Cache ID is the same as the JDBC connection URL of the registry database. This value is the Cache ID of the remote instance. It should be in the format of $database_username@$database_url, where $database_username is the username of the remote instance database and $database_url is the remote instance database URL. This cacheID denotes the enabled cache. In this case, the database it should connect to is REGISTRY_DB, which is the database shared across all the nodes. You can find that in the mounting configurations of the same datasource that is being used.

  • Define a unique name in the <id> tag for each remote instance. This is then referred to from mount configurations. In the above example, the unique ID for the remote instance is "instanceId".

  • Specify the actual mount path and target mount path in each of the mounting configurations. The target path can be any meaningful name. In this instance, it is "/_system/configmbconfig".

Configuring a message broker profile node

Warning

It is vital to synchronize time across all the Broker nodes in the cluster to make them function properly.

Do the following configurations for all nodes of your cluster.

Configure the datasources to point to the REGISTRY_LOCAL1, WSO2_REGISTRY_DB, and WSO2_USER_DB databases as follows in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml file as follows:

Tip

Replace the username, password, and database URL of your MySQL environment accordingly.

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<dbConfig name="sharedregistry">
<dataSource>jdbc/WSO2RegistryDB</dataSource>
</dbConfig> 

<remoteInstance url="https://localhost:9443/registry">
    <id>instanceid</id>
    <dbConfig>sharedregistry</dbConfig>
    <readOnly>false</readOnly>
    <enableCache>true</enableCache>
    <registryRoot>/</registryRoot>
<cacheId>regadmin@jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_DB?autoReconnect=true</cacheId>
</remoteInstance>
 
<mount path="/_system/config" overwrite="true">
    <instanceId>instanceid</instanceId>
    <targetPath>/_system/mbconfig</targetPath>
</mount>
 
<mount path="/_system/governance" overwrite="true">
    <instanceId>instanceid</instanceId>
    <targetPath>/_system/governance</targetPath>
</mount>

Configuring a message broker profile node

Warning

It is vital to synchronize time across all the Broker nodes in the cluster to make them function properly.

Do the following configurations for all nodes of your cluster.

  1. Configure the datasourcesto point to the REGISTRY_LOCAL1, WSO2_REGISTRY_DB, and WSO2_USER_DB databases as follows in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml file as follows:

    Tip

    Replace the username, password, and database URL of your MySQL environment accordingly.

    <datasources-configuration xmlns:svns="http://org.wso2.securevault/configuration">
    testOnBorrow>
    <providers>
        <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>
    <provider>org.wso2.carbon.ndatasource.rdbms.RDBMSDataSourceReader</provider>
    </providers>
    <datasources>
    <datasource> <name>REGISTRY_LOCAL2</name>
    <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
    <description>The
    datasource
    used
    for
    registry-
    local<
    </
    description>
    configuration>
    <jndiConfig>
     </definition> 
        </datasource>
    <name>jdbc/WSO2CarbonDB</name> 
    </datasources>
    </jndiConfig> <definition type="RDBMS
    </datasources-configuration>
    Code Block
    languagexml
    <datasources-configuration xmlns:svns="http://org.wso2.securevault/configuration"> 
     <providers> 
    </jndiConfig>    <provider>org.wso2.carbon.ndatasource.rdbms.RDBMSDataSourceReader</provider> 
      </providers> 
<definition type="RDBMS">   <datasources> 
        <datasource> 
   <configuration>             <name>REGISTRY_LOCAL1</name> 
       <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_LOCAL1?autoReconnect=true</url>     <description>The datasource used for registry- local</description> 
          <username>regadmin</username>  <jndiConfig> 
                  <password>regadmin</password><name>jdbc/WSO2CarbonDB</name> 
                    <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName></jndiConfig> 
              <definition type="RDBMS"> 
    <maxActive>50</maxActive>             <configuration> 
       <maxWait>60000</maxWait>                <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_LOCAL1?autoReconnect=true</url> 
    <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>                <username>regadmin</username> 
    <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>               <password>regadmin</password> 
     <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>                <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName> 
</configuration>              </definition>      <maxActive>50</maxActive> 
  </datasource>          <datasource>        <maxWait>60000</maxWait> 
    <name>REGISTRY_DB</name>              <description>The datasource used<testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow> for
registry- config/governance</description>              <jndiConfig>     <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery> 
          <name>jdbc/WSO2RegistryDB</name>          <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval> 
  </jndiConfig>              <definition type="RDBMS"></configuration> 
            </definition> 
        </datasource> 
<configuration>        <datasource> 
            <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_DB?autoReconnect=true</url><name>REGISTRY_DB</name> 
            <description>The datasource used for registry- config/governance</description> 
 <username>regadmin</username>           <jndiConfig> 
         <password>regadmin</password>       <name>jdbc/WSO2RegistryDB</name> 
             <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName></jndiConfig> 
            <definition type="RDBMS"> 
     <maxActive>50</maxActive>           <configuration> 
         <maxWait>60000</maxWait>           <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_DB?autoReconnect=true</url> 
         <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>           <username>regadmin</username> 
         <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>          <password>regadmin</password> 
          <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>          <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName> 
      </configuration>              <<maxActive>50</definition>maxActive> 
         </datasource>           <datasource><maxWait>60000</maxWait> 
            <name>WSO2_USER_DB</name>        <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow> 
    <description>The datasource used for registry and user manager</description>         <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery> 
  <jndiConfig>                  <name>jdbc<validationInterval>30000</WSO2UMDB</name>validationInterval> 
            </jndiConfig>    </configuration> 
        <definition type="RDBMS">   </definition> 
        </datasource> 
   <configuration>      <datasource> 
              <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/WSO2<name>WSO2_USER_DB</url>name> 
            <description>The datasource used for registry and user  <username>regadmin<manager</username>description> 
             <jndiConfig> 
     <password>regadmin</password>           <name>jdbc/WSO2UMDB</name> 
         <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>   </jndiConfig> 
            <definition type="RDBMS"> 
  <maxActive>50</maxActive>              <configuration> 
      <maxWait>60000</maxWait>              <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/WSO2_USER_DB</url> 
                   <testOnBorrow>true< <username>regadmin</testOnBorrow>username> 
                    <validationQuery>SELECT 1<<password>regadmin</validationQuery>password> 
                    <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval><driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName> 
                    </configuration><maxActive>50</maxActive> 
                    </definition><maxWait>60000</maxWait> 
               </datasource>     <<testOnBorrow>true</datasources> 
</datasources-configuration>
    Tip

    Repeat this configuration on the second WSO2 EI node to configure the datasources to point to the REGISTRY_LOCAL2, WSO2_REGISTRY_DB, and WSO2_USER_DB databases as follows: (Change the username, password, and database URL as needed for your environment):

    Code Block
    languagexml
    Tip

    Repeat this configuration on the second WSO2 EI node to configure the datasourcesto point to the REGISTRY_LOCAL2, WSO2_REGISTRY_DB, and WSO2_USER_DB databases as follows: (Change the username, password, and database URL as needed for your environment):

    Code Block
    languagexml
    <datasources-configuration xmlns:svns="http://org.wso2.securevault/configuration">     
    <providers>
      <configuration>  <provider>org.wso2.carbon.ndatasource.rdbms.RDBMSDataSourceReader</provider>
    </providers>
    <datasources>
        <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_LOCAL2?autoReconnect=true</url><datasource>
            <name>REGISTRY_LOCAL2</name>
       <username>regadmin</username>     <description>The datasource used for registry- local</description>
          <password>regadmin</password>  <jndiConfig>
                  <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName><name>jdbc/WSO2CarbonDB</name>
                    <maxActive>50</maxActive></jndiConfig>
            <definition type="RDBMS">
      <maxWait>60000</maxWait>           <configuration>
         <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>                 <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_LOCAL2?autoReconnect=true</url>
   <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>                 <username>regadmin</username>
   <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>                 <<password>regadmin</configuration>password>
            </definition>         </datasource><driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>
        <datasource>             <name>REGISTRY_DB</name><maxActive>50</maxActive>
            <description>The datasource used for registry- config/governance</description>   <maxWait>60000</maxWait>
         <jndiConfig>           <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
     <name>jdbc/WSO2RegistryDB</name>             </jndiConfig>  <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>
         <definition type="RDBMS">          <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
      <configuration>          </configuration>
          <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_DB?autoReconnect=true</url>
   </definition>
        </datasource>
        <datasource>
<username>regadmin</username>            <name>REGISTRY_DB</name>
        <password>regadmin</password>    <description>The datasource used for registry- config/governance</description>
           <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>
 <jndiConfig>
                <name>jdbc/WSO2RegistryDB</name>
  <maxActive>50</maxActive>          </jndiConfig>
          <maxWait>60000</maxWait>  <definition type="RDBMS">
                <configuration>
<testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>                     <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery><url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/REGISTRY_DB?autoReconnect=true</url>
                    <validationInterval>30000<<username>regadmin</validationInterval>username>
                 </configuration>   <password>regadmin</password>
         </definition>         </datasource>  <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>
       <datasource>             <name>WSO2_USER_DB</name><maxActive>50</maxActive>
             <description>The datasource used for registry and user manager<<maxWait>60000</description>maxWait>
            <jndiConfig>        <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
        <name>jdbc/WSO2UMDB</name>            <validationQuery>SELECT </jndiConfig>1</validationQuery>
               <definition type="RDBMS">    <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
            <configuration>    </configuration>
            </definition>
   <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/WSO2_USER_DB</url>     </datasource>
         <datasource>
     <username>regadmin</username>       <name>WSO2_USER_DB</name>
            <description>The <password>regadmin</password>datasource used for registry and user manager</description>
            <jndiConfig>
 <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>               <name>jdbc/WSO2UMDB</name>
     <maxActive>50</maxActive>       </jndiConfig>
             <maxWait>60000</maxWait><definition type="RDBMS">
                <configuration>
   <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>                 <url>jdbc:mysql://carbondb.mysql-wso2.com:3306/WSO2_USER_DB</url>
                    <validationQuery>SELECT 1<<username>regadmin</validationQuery>username>
                    <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval><password>regadmin</password>
                    </configuration><driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>
                    </definition><maxActive>50</maxActive>
                </datasource>    <<maxWait>60000</datasources>
</datasources-configuration>

    Add the following configuration in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/user-mgt.xml file to configure the user stores. 

    Tip

    Enter the datasource information for the user store that you configured in the  <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/ datasources /master- datasources . xml file. You can change the admin username and password as well. However, you should do this before starting the server.

    Code Block
    languagexml
    <Configuration>
    maxWait>
    <AddAdmin>true</AddAdmin>
                 <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
                    <validationQuery>SELECT
    <AdminRole>admin</AdminRole>
    1</validationQuery>
    <AdminUser>
    <UserName>admin</UserName>
    <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
    <Password>admin</Password>
         </
    AdminUser>
    configuration>
    <EveryOneRoleName>everyone</EveryOneRoleName>
    </definition>
    <Property name="dataSource">jdbc/WSO2UMDB</Property>
     </datasource>
   </datasources>
</
    Configuration>
    Remove or uncomment the default H2-based WSO2_MB_STORE_DB following configuration in the 
    datasources-configuration>

  2. Add the following configuration in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/user-mgt.xml file to configure the user stores. 

    Tip

    Enter the datasource information for the user store that you configured in the  <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources /master- datasources

    .xml file. 

    . xml file. You can change the admin username and password as well. However, you should do this before starting the server.

    Code Block
    languagexml
    <datasource><Configuration>
    <name>WSO2_MB_STORE_DB</name><AddAdmin>true</AddAdmin>
    <description>The<AdminRole>admin</AdminRole>
datasource used for message broker database</description><AdminUser>
    <jndiConfig>    <UserName>admin</UserName>
    <name>WSO2MBStoreDB</name>     <<Password>admin</jndiConfig>Password>
    <definition type="RDBMS"></AdminUser>
    <EveryOneRoleName>everyone</EveryOneRoleName>
   <configuration> <Property            <url>jdbc:h2:repository/database/WSO2MB_DB;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=60000</url>
            <username>wso2carbon</username>name="dataSource">jdbc/WSO2UMDB</Property>
</Configuration>

  3. Remove or uncomment the default H2-based WSO2_MB_STORE_DB following configuration in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml file. 

    Code Block
    languagexml
    <datasource>
    <name>WSO2_MB_STORE_DB</name>
    <description>The datasource used for message broker   <password>wso2carbon</password>database</description>
    <jndiConfig>
        <driverClassName>org.h2.Driver</driverClassName><name>WSO2MBStoreDB</name>
            <maxActive>50</maxActive></jndiConfig>
    <definition type="RDBMS">
      <maxWait>60000</maxWait>   <configuration>
         <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>   <url>jdbc:h2:repository/database/WSO2MB_DB;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=60000</url>
           <validationQuery>SELECT 1<<username>wso2carbon</validationQuery>username>
            <validationInterval>30000<<password>wso2carbon</validationInterval>password>
            <defaultAutoCommit>false</defaultAutoCommit><driverClassName>org.h2.Driver</driverClassName>
            </configuration><maxActive>50</maxActive>
            </definition>
</datasource>
    Uncomment or add the following 
    <maxWait>60000</maxWait>
            <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
            <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>
            <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
            <defaultAutoCommit>false</defaultAutoCommit>
        </configuration>
    </definition>
</datasource>

  4. Uncomment or add the following WSO2_MB_STORE_DB configuration in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml file based on your DBMS type.

    Tip

    Update the JDBC URL to correctly point to your database and enter the username and password for your database user with the proper permissions.

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    titleConfiguring MSSQL
    Code Block
    languagexml
    <datasource>
    <name>WSO2_MB_STORE_DB</name>
    <jndiConfig>
        <name>jdbc/WSO2MBStoreDB</name>
    </jndiConfig>
    <definition type="RDBMS">
        <configuration>
            <defaultAutoCommit>false</defaultAutoCommit>
            <dataSourceClassName>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerXADataSource</dataSourceClassName>
            <dataSourceProps>
                <property name="URL">jdbc:sqlserver://127.0.0.1\SQLExpress</property>
                <property name="databaseName">wso2mb</property>
                <property name="user">sa</property>
                <property name="password">mssql</property>
            </dataSourceProps>
        </configuration>
    </definition>
</datasource>
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    titleConfiguring MySQL
    Code Block
    languagexml
    <datasource>
    <name>WSO2_MB_STORE_DB</name>
    <jndiConfig>
        <name>WSO2MBStoreDB</name>
    </jndiConfig>
    <definition type="RDBMS">
        <configuration>
            <driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driverClassName>
            <url>jdbc:mysql://localhost/wso2_mb</url>
            <username>root</username>
            <password>root</password>
            <maxActive>50</maxActive>
            <maxWait>60000</maxWait>
            <minIdle>5</minIdle>
            <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
            <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>
            <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
            <defaultAutoCommit>false</defaultAutoCommit>
        </configuration>
    </definition>
</datasource>
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    titleConfiguring Oracle
    Code Block
    languagexml
     <datasource>
    <name>WSO2_MB_STORE_DB</name>
    <jndiConfig>
        <name>WSO2MBStoreDB</name>
    </jndiConfig>
    <definition type="RDBMS">
        <configuration>
            <defaultAutoCommit>false</defaultAutoCommit>
            <defaultAutoCommit>false</defaultAutoCommit>
            <driverClassName>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</driverClassName>
            <url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521/orcl</url>
            <maxActive>100</maxActive>
            <maxWait>60000</maxWait>
            <minIdle>5</minIdle>
            <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
            <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>
            <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
            <username>scott</username>
            <password>tiger</password>
        </configuration>
    </definition>
</datasource>

  5. Uncomment or add the following configuration in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/broker.xml file. (Enter the message store based on your database type and Andes context store).

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    ...

    <persistence>
      <messageStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSMessageStoreImpl">
            <property name="dataSource">jdbc/MSSQLWSO2MBStoreDB</property>
      </messageStore>
     
      <andesContextStore    class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSAndesContextStoreImpl">
            <property name="dataSource">jdbc/MSSQLWSO2MBStoreDB</property>
      </andesContextStore>
    ...
    </persistence>
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    titleConfiguring MySQL

    ...

    <persistence>
      <messageStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSMessageStoreImpl">
            <property name="dataSource">jdbc/MySQLMessageStore</property>
      </messageStore>
     
      <andesContextStore    class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSAndesContextStoreImpl">
            <property name="dataSource">jdbc/MySQLMessageStore</property>
      </andesContextStore>
    ...
    </persistence>
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    titleConfiguring Oracle

    ...

    <persistence>
     <messageStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSMessageStoreImpl">
               <property name="dataSource">WSO2MBStoreDB</property>
    </messageStore>
     
    <contextStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSAndesContextStoreImpl">
               <property name="dataSource">WSO2MBStoreDB</property>
    </contextStore>
    ...
    </persistence>
  6. Edit the 
    <driverClassName>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</driverClassName>
            <url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521/orcl</url>
            <maxActive>100</maxActive>
            <maxWait>60000</maxWait>
            <minIdle>5</minIdle>
            <testOnBorrow>true</testOnBorrow>
            <validationQuery>SELECT 1</validationQuery>
            <validationInterval>30000</validationInterval>
            <username>scott</username>
            <password>tiger</password>
        </configuration>
    </definition>
</datasource>

  7. Uncomment or add the following configuration in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/broker.xml file.  (Enter the message store based on your database type and Andes context store).

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    ...
<persistence>
  <messageStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSMessageStoreImpl">
        <propertyname="dataSource">jdbc/MSSQLWSO2MBStoreDB</property>
  </messageStore>
  <contextStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSAndesContextStoreImpl">
        <propertyname="dataSource">jdbc/MSSQLWSO2MBStoreDB</property>
  </contextStore>
...
</persistence>
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    titleConfiguring MySQL
    Code Block
    ...
<persistence>
  <messageStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSMessageStoreImpl">
        <propertyname="dataSource">jdbc/MySQLMessageStore</property>
  </messageStore>
  <contextStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSAndesContextStoreImpl">
        <propertyname="dataSource">jdbc/MySQLMessageStore</property>
  </contextStore>
...
</persistence>
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    titleConfiguring Oracle
    Code Block
    ...
<persistence>
  <messageStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSMessageStoreImpl">
        <propertyname="dataSource">WSO2MBStoreDB</property>
  </messageStore>
  <contextStore class="org.wso2.andes.store.rdbms.RDBMSAndesContextStoreImpl">
        <propertyname="dataSource">WSO2MBStoreDB</property>
  </contextStore>
...
</persistence>

  8. Edit the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/axis2/axis2.xml file as follows to set up the cluster configurations.

    • Enable clustering for this node as follows: <clustering class="org.wso2.carbon.core.clustering.hazelcast.HazelcastClusteringAgent" enable="true">
    • Set the membership scheme to "wka" to enable the well-known address registration method. (This node sends cluster initiation messages to the WKA members): 
      <parameter name="membershipScheme">wka</parameter>
    • Specify the name of the cluster this node will join as folows: <parameter name="domain">wso2.ei.domain</parameter>
    • Specify the host to communicate cluster messages as follows: <parameter name="localMemberHost">xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2</parameter>

    • Specify the port to communicate cluster messages as follows: <parameter name="localMemberPort">4100</parameter>

      Info

      This port number is not affected by the port offset value specified in the  <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/carbon. xml file. If this port number is already assigned to another server, the clustering framework automatically increments this port number. However, if there are two servers running on the same machine, ensure that a unique port is set for each server.

    • Specify the well-known members as follows: (The port value for the WKA node must be the same value as it's localMemberPort (in this case it is 4100).

      Info

      You can also use IP address ranges for the hostname (e.g.,   192.168.1.2-10). However, you can define a range only for the last portion of the IP address. Smaller the range, the faster the time it takes to discover members since each node has to scan a lesser number of potential members. The best practice is to add all the members (including itself) in all the nodes to avoid any conflicts in configurations.

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      languagexml
      <members>    
    <member>
        <hostName>xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1</hostName>
        <port>4100</port>
    </member>
    <member>
        <hostName>xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2</hostName>
        <port>4100</port>
    </member>
</members>

  9. Add the following thrift-related configurations in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/broker.xml file.

    Tip

    This file is the root configuration file of brokering. Do the changes you do to this file in all the broker profile nodes. Configure the thriftServerHost value to point to the IP address of the message broker profile node.

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    languagexml
    <coordination>
    <nodeID>default</nodeID>
    <thriftServerHost>192.168.0.103</thriftServerHost>
    <thriftServerPort>7611</thriftServerPort>
	<thriftSOTimeout>0</thriftSOTimeout>
</coordination>

    Follwingaredetails on these configurations.

    ConfigurationDescription
    coordination

    This configuration is related to brokering thrift communications.

    nodeIDIn a clustered deployment, an ID is assigned to each brokering node via the cluster node identifier. This element can be used to override the cluster node identifier for this brokering node. If the value for this element is left as default, the default node ID is generated using the IP and a universally unique identifier (UUID). The node ID of each member in a cluster must be unique.
    thriftServerHost

    This is a sub-element of the <coordination> tag. WSO2 EI uses Apache Thrift for communications relating to message delivery. Therefore, an Apache Thrift server is started in each brokering node in a clustered deployment. This element should point to the IP address of the Apache Thrift server. This should point to the IP address of the brokering node that hosts the thrift server. The default value for this is localhost. For example, if you are configuring a brokering node hosted in 192.168.0.102 as the thrift server, this value should be 192.168.0.102.

    thriftServerPort

    This is another sub-element of the <coordination> tag. This should point to the port of the thrift server in the message broker profile.

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    titleWhat is the effective thrift server port ?
    The broker.xml file indicates 7611 as the default thrift server port. However, the default thrift server port that is effective in the MB profile of WSO2 EI is 7614 (7611 + 3). This is because, by default, the server port of the MB profile of WSO2 EI is offset by 3 in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/carbon.xml file. It is important to note that the effective thrift server port depends upon the default server port offset in the carbon.xml file as well as the thriftServerPort value in the broker.xml file. Be sure to keep the correct thrift server port open in your system to avoid errors.

    It is recommended to use the same thrift server port for all broker nodes in your cluster.

    thriftSOTimeout

    This is used to handle half-open TCP connections between the broker nodes in a cluster. In such situations, the socket may need to have a timeout value to invalidate the connection (in milliseconds). A timeout of zero is interpreted as an infinite timeout. Be sure to set this value to 180000 milliseconds as shown below in order to handle a high number of half-open TCP connections.

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    <thriftSOTimeout>180000</thriftSOTimeout>

  10. Enable heartbeat messaging for each of the broker nodes by following the steps given below. This is required for handling TCP connections between the broker nodes and client systems (publishers and subscribers).

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    titleWhat is heartbeat messaging?

    When a client is connected to the broker, both the broker and the client should be able to detect problem situations where the TCP connection is half open or where the connecting client/broker is unresponsive. This can be achieved by enabling heartbeat messaging between the broker and the client.

    The heartbeat messaging configuration allows both the broker and the client to verify whether the connection is inactive or whether the connecting system (broker or client) is inactive by periodically sending messages to each other.

    For example, you can set the heartbeat delay time to 30 seconds. This means that if the broker (or the client) does not receive the expected response from the other system within 30 seconds, it will send a heartbeat message to check if the connection is inactive or if the other system is inactive. If the connection is inactive or is half-open, there will be a clear indication of connection failure. However, if the connection is active but the other system is unresponsive, the broker or the client will continue to send heartbeat messages (every 30 seconds). By default, the broker and clients are configured to terminate (timeout) the connection after sending two heartbeat messages; however, this time out configuration can be changed.

    Note: In a scenario where the subscriber client is sending the heartbeat message to the broker node, if the connection is found to be broken or if the broker node is inactive, the connection will failover to another broker node in the cluster.

    1. Open the qpid-config.xml file that is stored in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/advanced/ directory.

    2. Set the heartbeat delay as shown below. The recommended heartbeat delay is 30 seconds.

      Code Block
      <heartbeat>
    <delay>30</delay>
    <timeoutFactor>2.0</timeoutFactor>
</heartbeat>

      The elements in the above configuration are explained below.

      delayThe <delay> element specifies the time interval between heartbeat messages. This is the time that the broker or client will wait to receive a response from the other party. If the response is not received within this time, a heartbeat message is triggered.
      timeoutFactorThe number of heartbeat messages the broker will send to the client before terminating the connection. That is, if the timeoutFactor is 2, the broker will send heartbeat messages every 30 seconds twice, and if a response is not received from the client, the connection will be terminated.

Configuring Hazelcast properties

WSO2 products use Hazelcast as its default clustering engine. You can configure the hazelcast properties for the product nodes by following the steps given below.

  1. Add the following property configurations to the hazelcast.properties file stored in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/ directory.

    Code Block
    #Disabling the hazelcast shutdown hook
hazelcast.shutdownhook.enabled=false
#Setting the hazelcast logging type to log4j
hazelcast.logging.type=log4j

    The above configurations are explained below.

    • Hazelcast shutdown hook: This configuration disables the shutdown hook in hazelcast, which ensures that the hazelcast instance shuts down gracefully whenever the product node shuts down. If the hazelcast shutdown hook is enabled (which is the default behavior of a product), you will see errors such as "Hazelcast instance is not active!" at the time of shutting down the product node: This is because the hazelcast instance shuts down too early when the shutdown hook is enabled.
    • Hazelcast logging type: This configuration sets the hazelcast logging type to log4j, which allows hazelcast logs to be written to the wso2carbon.log file.

  2. If you have enabled log4j for hazelcast logging as explained above, be sure to enter the configuration shown below in the log4j.properties file (stored in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/ directory). This can be used to configure the log level for hazelcast logging. For a clustered production environment, it is recommended to use INFO as the log level as shown below.

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    log4j.logger.com.hazelcast=INFO

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RDBMS_clustering
Configuring cluster coordination

The Messgae Broker profile in WSO2 EI introduces cluster coordination through an RDBMS. This means that the coordination between the nodes in a cluster can be managed through an RDBMS, just as message persistence. Therefore, the RDBMS that is connected to the MB nodes in the cluster is, by default, used for message persistence as well as cluster coordination. 

Use the following configuration in the broker.xml file (stored in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/

...

 directory) to enable RDBMS-based cluster coordination.

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<rdbmsBasedCoordination enabled="true">

...

Specify the port to communicate cluster messages as follows: <parameter name="localMemberPort">4100</parameter>

Info

This port number is not affected by the port offset value specified in the  <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/carbon. xml file. If this port number is already assigned to another server, the clustering framework automatically increments this port number. However, if there are two servers running on the same machine, ensure that a unique port is set for each server.

...

Specify the well-known members as follows: (The port value for the WKA node must be the same value as it's localMemberPort (in this case it is 4100).

Info

You can also use IP address ranges for the hostname (e.g.,   192.168.1.2-10). However, you can define a range only for the last portion of the IP address. Smaller the range, the faster the time it takes to discover members since each node has to scan a lesser number of potential members.

Add the following thrift-related configurations in the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/conf/broker.xml file.

Tip

This file is the root configuration file of brokering. Do the changes you do to this file in all the broker profile nodes. Configure the thriftServerHost value to point to the IP address of the message broker profile node.

Code Block
languagexml
<coordination>
    <nodeID>default</nodeID>
    <thriftServerHost>192.168.0.103</thriftServerHost>
    <thriftServerPort>7611</thriftServerPort>
	<thriftSOTimeout>0</thriftSOTimeout>
</coordination>

Follwingaredetails on these configurations.

...

This configuration is related to brokering thrift communications.

...

This is a sub-element of the <coordination> tag. WSO2 EI uses Apache Thrift for communications relating to message delivery. Therefore, an Apache Thrift server is started in each brokering node in a clustered deployment. This element should point to the IP address of the Apache Thrift server. This should point to the IP address of the brokering node that hosts the thrift server. The default value for this is localhost. For example, if you are configuring a brokering node hosted in 192.168.0.102 as the thrift server, this value should be 192.168.0.102.

...

This is another sub-element of the <coordination> tag. This should point to the port of the thrift server in the message broker profile. The default port is 7611. It is recommended to use this port for all broker nodes in your cluster. 

...


    <!-- Heartbeat interval used in the RDBMS base coordination algorithm in milliseconds -->
    <heartbeatInterval>5000</heartbeatInterval>
    <!-- Time to wait before informing others about coordinator change in milliseconds. This value should be
            larger than a database read time including network latency and should be less than heartbeatInterval -->
    <coordinatorEntryCreationWaitTime>3000</coordinatorEntryCreationWaitTime>
    <!-- Time interval used to poll database for membership related events in milliseconds. -->
    <eventPollingInterval>4000</eventPollingInterval>
</rdbmsBasedCoordination>
<!-- Enabling this will make the cluster notifications such as Queue changes(additions and deletions),
        Subscription changes, etc. sent within the cluster be synchronized using RDBMS. If set to false, Hazelcast
        will be used for this purpose.-->
<RDBMSBasedClusterEventSynchronization enabled="true">
    <!--Specifies the interval at which, the cluster events will be read from the database. Needs to be
            declared in milliseconds. Setting this to a very low value could downgrade the performance where as
            setting this to a large value could increase the time taken for a cluster event to be synchronized in
            all the nodes in a cluster.-->
    <eventSyncInterval>1000</eventSyncInterval>
</RDBMSBasedClusterEventSynchronization>

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network_partitioning
Handling network partitioning in Hazelcast-based clustering

Network partitioning in the network used for cluster coordination can sometimes disrupt the cluster. The Message Broker profile of WSO2 EI introduces a new configuration to handle network partitioning that may occur when cluster coordination is managed by the hazelcast engine (as opposed to the RDBMS as explained above).

For example, consider a cluster of three MB nodes that uses two separate networks for cluster coordination and message persistence. The network with the RDBMS will persist messages, subscriptions and queues etc., and the cluster network communicates information about subscriptions, queue additions, and to decide on the coordinator of the cluster.  If one of the nodes in the cluster disconnects from the network used for cluster coordination, that node will separate from the cluster and function as a separate node/cluster (separate partition). That is, the three-node cluster will now be working as two separate clusters. However, the disconnected node will still be up and running, and message persistence will continue uninterrupted through the message persistence network. This will cause inconsistencies in the system because message persistence and cluster coordination will not be synchronized. In such a situation, it is necessary to stop the disconnected node from accepting messages.

The above situation can be prevented in the Message Broker profile by configuring the minimum node count of the cluster.  For example, if the cluster size is 5 and we have configured the minimum node count to 3 nodes, during a network partition (or when nodes crash or shut down) any partition that has 3 or more nodes will keep functioning, while the other partitions will stop processing messages.

Follow the steps given below to enable this feature.

  1. Open the <EI_HOME>/wso2/broker/repository/conf/broker.xml file and set the <networkPartitionsDetection> element shown below to enabled="true" . Note that this configuration is disabled by default as shown below.

    Code Block
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<networkPartitionsDetection enabled="false">
    <minimumClusterSize>1</minimumClusterSize>
</networkPartitionsDetection>
  2. Update the <minimumClusterSize> property in the above configuration to specify the minimum node count the cluster should maintain in order to operate. Note that if this value should be at least two for cluster coordination to work.  If the number of nodes in the cluster becomes less that configured value, the cluster will not accept any incoming traffic. That is, all subscriptions will be disconnected.

Testing the cluster

Follow the steps below to test the cluster.

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