USAGE for mkrep.sh v1.0.18:
mkrep.sh -i <SDP_Instance_1>[,<SDP_Instance_2>[,...]] -t <Type> -s <Site_Tag> -r <Replica_Host> [-c <cfg>] [-L <log>] [-si] [-v<n>] [-n] [-D]
or
mkrep.sh [-h|-man|-V]
DESCRIPTION:
This script creates makes a replica, and provides enough information to
make it ready in all respects.
OPTIONS:
-i <SDP_Instance_1>[,<SDP_Instance_2>[,...]]
-t <Type>
Specify the replica type tag. The type corresponds to the 'Type:' and
'Services:' field of the server spec, which describes the type of services
offered by a given replica.
Valid values are:
* ro: Read-Only standby replica.
* rom: Read-Only standby replica, Metadata only.
* fr: Forwarding Replica (Unfiltered).
* fs: Forwarding Standby (Unfiltered).
* frm: Forwarding Replica (Unfiltered, Metdata only).
* fsm: Forwarding Standby (Unfiltered, Metdata only).
* ffr: Filtered Forwarding Replica. Not a valid failover target.
* edge: Edge Server. Filtered by def'n.
Replica with 'standby' are always unfiltered, and use the 'journalcopy'
method of replication, which copies a byte-for-byte verbatim journal file
rather than one that is merely logically equivalent.
The tag has several purposes:
1. Short Hand. Each tag represents a combination of 'Type:' and fully
qualified 'Services:' values used in server specs.
2. Distillation. Only the most useful Type/Services combinations have a
shorthand form.
3. For forwarding replicas, the name includes the critical distinction of
whether any replication filtering is used; as filtering of any kind disqualifies
a replica from being a potential failover target. (No such distinction is
needed for edge servers, which are filtered by definition).
-s <Site_Tag>
Specify a geographic site tag indicating where the replica will physically be
located. Valid site tags are defined in the site tags file,
/p4/common/config/SiteTags.cfg
Current valid site tags are:
cat: /p4/common/config/SiteTags.cfg: Permission denied
-r <Replica_Host>
Specify the target replica host.
-c <cfg>
Specify the Helix Topology Config file. The default is:
-v<n> Set verbosity 1-5 (-v1 = quiet, -v5 = highest).
-L <log>
Specify the path to a log file, or the special value 'off' to disable
logging. By default, all output (stdout and stderr) goes to:
/p4/hms/logs.
NOTE: This script is self-logging. That is, output displayed on the screen
is simultaneously captured in the log file. Do not run this script with
redirection operators like '> log' or '2>&1', and do not use 'tee.'
-si Operate silently. All output (stdout and stderr) is redirected to the log
only; no output appears on the terminal. This cannot be used with
'-L off'.
-n No-Op. Prints commands instead of running them.
-D Set extreme debugging verbosity.
HELP OPTIONS:
-h Display short help message
-man Display man-style help message
-V Dispay version info for this script and its libraries.
DEPENDENCIES:
This script depends on ssh keys being defined to allow the Perforce
operating system user () to ssh to any necessary machines
without a password.
This script assumes the replica host already has the SDP fully
configured.
FILES:
This Site Tags file defines the list of valid geographic site tags:
/p4/common/config/SiteTags.cfg
EXAMPLES:
Prepare an edge server to run on host syc-helix-04:
mkrep.sh -i acme -t edge -s syd -r syc-helix-04
| # | Change | User | Description | Committed | |
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| #1 | 23960 | noe_gonzalez | "Forking branch Dev of perforce-software-sdp to noe_gonzalez-sdp." | ||
| //guest/perforce_software/sdp/dev/doc/mkrep.sh.command_summary.txt | |||||
| #2 | 23266 | C. Thomas Tyler |
Fixes and Enhancements: * Enabled daily_checkpoint.sh operate on edge servers, to keep /p4/N/offline_db current on those hosts for site-local recovery w/o requiring a site-local replica (though having a site-local replica can still be useful). * Disabled live_checkpoint.sh for edge servers. * More fully support topologies using edge severs, in both geographically distributed and horizaontal scaling "wokspace server" solutions. * Fix broken EDGESERVER value definition. * Modified name of SDP counter that gets set when a checkpoint is taken to incorporate ServerID, so now the counter name will look like lastSDPCheckpoint.master.1, or lastSDPCheckpoint.p4d_edge_sfo, rather than just lastSDPCheckpoint. There will be multiple such counters in a topology that uses edge servers, and/or which takes checkpoints on replicas. * Added comments for all functions. For the master server, journalPrefix remains: /p4/N/checkpoints/p4_N The /p4/N/checkpoints is reserved for writing by the master/commit server only. For non-standby (possibly filtered) replicas and edge serves, journalPrefix is: /p4/N/checkpoints.<ShortServerID>/p4_N.<ShortServerID> Here, ShortServerID is just the ServerID with the 'p4d_' prefix trimmed, since it is redundant in this context. See mkrep.sh, which enshines a ServerID (server spec) naming standard, with values like 'p4d_fr_bos' (forwarding replica in Boston) and p4d_edge_blr (Edge server in Bangalore). So the journalPrefix for the p4d_edge_bos replica would be: /p4/N/checkpoints.edge_bos/p4_N.edge_bos For "standby" (aka journalcopy) replicas, journalPrefix is set to /p4/N/journals.rep. which is written to the $LOGS volume, due to the nature of standby replicas using journalPrefix to write active server logs to pre-rotated journals. Some take-away to be updated in docs: * The /p4/N/checkpoints folder must be reserved for checkpoints that originate on the master. It should be safe to rsync this folder (with --delete if desired) to any replica or edge server. This is consistent with the current SDP. * I want to change 'journals.rep' to 'checkpoints.<ShortServerID>' for non-standby replicas, to ensure that checkpoints and journals taken on those hosts are written to a volume where they are backed up. * In sites with multiple edge serves, some sharing achive files ('workspace servers'), multiple edge servers will share the same SAN. So we one checkpoints dir per ServerID, and we want that dir to be on the /hxdepots volume. Note that the journalPrefix for replicas was a fixed /p4/N/journals.rep. This was on the /hxlogs volume - a presumably fast-for-writes volume, but typically NOT backed up and not very large. This change puts it under /p4/N/checkpoints.* for edge servers and non-standby replicas, but ensures other replica types and edge servers can generate checkpoints to a location that is backed up and has plenty of storage capacity. For standby replicas only (which cannot be filtered), the journalPrefix remains /p4/N/journals.rep on the /hxlogs volume. |
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| #1 | 21072 | C. Thomas Tyler | Added mkrep.sh command summary. | ||