Homo-Adminus Blog

It’s been a long time since we’ve started this project and it is time to make a checkpoint. So, I’ve decided to release final 1.0 version and make 1.X branch stable while all serious development with deep architectural changes will be done 2.X branch (trunk at this moment).

Changes from previous release:

• Perl semaphores implementation caused huge memory leaks (mmmd_mod).
• Now we do not send any commands to hard offline hosts with dead TCP/IP stack to prevent mointoring problems for other hosts.
• Removed legacy StartSlave method from agent code which caused problems on some Perl versions
• Added a few fixes to prevent non-exclusive roles from moving. This caused internal status structures to be corrupted.
• Made all mysql checks properly report errors occurring (previously they were resulting in an OK response). Thanks to Phillip Pearson.
• Some memory leaks found in mysql checkers and as a quick fix we’ve added an idea of “Maximum Checks Before Restart” to all checkers. If you want some checker to restart after N checks, simply add “restart after N” to your checker declaration.
• Added some more docs to the project site.

New version can be obtained here or from the project’s SVN repository.

New alpha release 1.0-pre4 of the MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager. This release has lots of major fixes and I’m glad to announce first sponsored port of mmm to non-linux platform – it has been ported to Solaris 10. So, here are our changes in this version:

• Real checks timeouts – I’ve found and fixed lots of problems in checks timeout code and now if you specified in your mmm_mon.conf, that some check should timeout in 5 sec, it would timeout correctly on all supported platforms.
• External third-party tools using – On all supported non-linux platforms mmm will use system binaries for fping and arp_ping so porting to another platforms would be much easier.
• Agent notifications fix – Now we don’t try to notify dead agents about cluster changes and additionally we have 10 sec timeout on notification sends to prevent monitoring from lagging on network connection timeouts.
• Bundled fping and send_arp – We have both used third-party tools used in mmm bundled in our distribution as separate build trees (you could find and build/install them from contrib directory).
• Flexible perl binary location – We’re using “#!/usr/bin/env perl” as shebang line in our perl scripts so you can use any perl interpreter just by placing it earlier in your PATH variable.

Notice: If you’ll try to install this version, try to run bin/sys/fping and bin/sys/send_arp on your server before installation. If you’ll notice any errors, feel free to build binaries for your platform using contrib/* sources (you’ll need gcc and libnet installed).

So, as you can see, mmm development goes forward and we’re fixing some problems trying to make this software mature. If you want to help us, you can send your comments to mmm-devel mailing list, post your bug reports to our bug tracking or sponsor any changes you need 😉

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MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager version 1.0-pre3 has been released today. Changes list is really short now:

• Major fix in multiple clusters support – now you can use many clusters with one monitoring node (details are in mmmd_mon man page)
• Man pages for mmmd_mon, mmmd_agent and mmm_control scripts
• Startup scripts added/fixed for mmmd_mon and mmmd_agent
• Installation script now requires iproute package to be installed on server.

As always, if you have any questions/suggestions, post them here or in mmm-devel mail list.

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Очередной релиз MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager – сегодня версии 1.0-pre3. Список изменений в этой версии – совсем короткий:

• Важное исправление в поддержке нескольких кластеров – теперь вы можете использовать один мониторинговый сервер для управления несколькими кластерами (детальнее – в man-странице для mmmd_mon)
• Добавлены man pages для скриптов mmmd_mon, mmmd_agent и mmm_control
• Стартовые скрипты для mmmd_mon and mmmd_agent
• Инсталляционный скрипт теперь требует наличия пакета iproute на сервере.

Как всегда, если у вас есть какие-то дополнения/пожелания/комментарии, вы можете оставить их здесь или отправить в список рассылки mmm-devel.

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