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Broker

Broker is essential part of ReCodEx solution which maintaines almost all communication.

Description

Architecture

Installation

Configuration and usage

Following text describes how to set up and run broker program. It's supposed to have required binaries installed. For instructions see Installation section. Also, using systemd is recommended for best user experience, but it's not required. Almost all modern Linux distributions are using systemd now.

Installation of broker program does following step to your computer:

  • create config file /etc/recodex/brokerr/config.yml
  • create systemd unit file /etc/systemd/system/recodex-broker.service
  • put main binary to /usr/bin/recodex-broker
  • create system user and group recodex with nologin shell (if not existing)
  • create log directory /var/log/recodex
  • set ownership of config (/etc/recodex) and log (/var/log/recodex) directories to recodex user and group

Default broker configuration

Configuration items

Mandatory items are bold, optional italic.

  • clients - specifies address and port to bind for clients (eq. frontends)
    • address - hostname or IP address as string (* for any)
    • port - desired port
  • workers - specifies address and port to bind for workers
    • address - hostname or IP address as string (* for any)
    • port - desired port
  • monitor - settings of monitor service connection
    • address - IP address of running monitor service
    • port - desired port
  • notifier - details of connection which is used in case of errors and good to know states
    • address - address where frontend API runs
    • port - desired port
    • username - username which can be used for HTTP authentication
    • password - password which can be used for HTTP authentication
  • logger - settings of logging capabilities
    • file - path to the logging file with name without suffix. /var/log/recodex/broker item will produce broker.log, broker.1.log, ...
    • level - level of logging, one of off, emerg, alert, critical, err, warn, notice, info and debug
    • max-size - maximal size of log file before rotating
    • rotations - number of rotation kept

Example config file

# Address and port for clients (frontend)
clients:
    address: "*"
    port: 9658  # Address and port for workers
workers:
    address: "*"
    port: 9657
monitor:
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 7894
notifier:
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 8080
    username: ""
    password: ""
logger:
    file: "/var/log/recodex/broker"  # w/o suffix - actual names will be broker.log, broker.1.log, ...
    level: "debug"  # level of logging
    max-size: 1048576  # 1 MB; max size of file before log rotation
    rotations: 3  # number of rotations kept

Running broker

Running broker is very similar to the worker setup. There is only one broker per whole ReCodEx solution, so there is no need for systemd templates. So running broker is just:

# systemctl start recodex-broker.service

For more info please refer to worker part of this page or systemd documentation.