Can any one explain to me what a farm file is in CQ5 and what its purpose is?
Perhaps you are thinking of the /farms node in the dispatcher configuration file. As this doc (somewhat outdated, as it applies to 5.3) indicates, your config entries for this node can be coded in a separate, included file. Each entry in /farms describes a separate server that can provide content; requests are routed to the servers by the dispatcher.
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I have installed and tested kafka connect in distributed mode, it works now and it connects to the configured sink and reads from the configured source.
That being the case, I moved to enhance my installation. The one area I think needs immediate attention is the fact that to create a connector, the only available mean is through REST calls, this means I need to send my information through the wire, unprotected.
In order to secure this, kafka introduced the new ConfigProvider seen here.
This is helpful as it allows to set properties in the server and then reference them in the rest call, like so:
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"property":"${file:/path/to/file:nameOfThePropertyInFile}"
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This works really well, just by adding the property file on the server and adding the following config on the distributed.properties file:
config.providers=file # multiple comma-separated provider types can be specified here
config.providers.file.class=org.apache.kafka.common.config.provider.FileConfigProvider
While this solution works, it really does not help to easy my concerns regarding security, as the information now passed from being sent over the wire, to now be seating on a repository, with text on plain sight for everyone to see.
The kafka team foresaw this issue and allowed clients to produce their own configuration providers implementing the interface ConfigProvider.
I have created my own implementation and packaged in a jar, givin it the sugested final name:
META-INF/services/org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigProvider
and added the following entry in the distributed file:
config.providers=cust
config.providers.cust.class=com.somename.configproviders.CustConfigProvider
However I am getting an error from connect, stating that a class implementing ConfigProvider, with the name:
com.somename.configproviders.CustConfigProvider
could not be found.
I am at a loss now, because the documentation on their site is not explicit about how to configure custom config providers very well.
Has someone worked on a similar issue and could provide some insight into this? Any help would be appreciated.
I just went through these to setup a custom ConfigProvider recently. The official doc is ambiguous and confusing.
I have created my own implementation and packaged in a jar, givin it the sugested final name:
META-INF/services/org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigProvider
You could name the final name of jar whatever you like, but needs to pack to jar format which has .jar suffix.
Here is the complete step by step. Suppose your custom ConfigProvider fully-qualified name is com.my.CustomConfigProvider.MyClass.
1. create a file under directory: META-INF/services/org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigProvider. File content is full qualified class name:
com.my.CustomConfigProvider.MyClass
Include your source code, and above META-INF folder to generate a Jar package. If you are using Maven, file structure looks like this
put your final Jar file, say custom-config-provider-1.0.jar, under the Kafka worker plugin folder. Default is /usr/share/java. PLUGIN_PATH in Kafka worker config file.
Upload all the dependency jars to PLUGIN_PATH as well. Use the META-INFO/MANIFEST.MF file inside your Jar file to configure the 'ClassPath' of dependent jars that your code will use.
In kafka worker config file, create two additional properties:
CONNECT_CONFIG_PROVIDERS: 'mycustom', // Alias name of your ConfigProvider
CONNECT_CONFIG_PROVIDERS_MYCUSTOM_CLASS:'com.my.CustomConfigProvider.MyClass',
Restart workers
Update your connector config file by curling POST to Kafka Restful API. In Connector config file, you could reference the value inside ConfigData returned from ConfigProvider:get(path, keys) by using the syntax like:
database.password=${mycustom:/path/pass/to/get/method:password}
ConfigData is a HashMap which contains {password: 123}
If you still seeing ClassNotFound exception, probably your ClassPath is not setup correctly.
Note:
• If you are using AWS ECS/EC2, you need to set the worker config file by setting the environment variable.
• worker config and connector config file are different.
what is the use of sling run modes property in sling.properties file?
I have a osgi felix bundle that installed onto aem admin bundle console through aem cq5 package manager.
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configuration properties of one of the bundle service is not available
unless I put the following line in cq5/config/sling.properties file.
sling.run.modes=author,sandbox why is this so ? what is the importance
of sling.run.modes ?
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Thank you,
Sri
Run modes allow you to tune your AEM instance for a specific purpose; for example author or publish, test, development, intranet or others.
Exampe: For dev: sling.run.modes=author,dev
use of run mode is, example - i have a config.author.prod and config.author.dev in crxd/e. Based on the run mode instance, the OSGI Bundle will pick the corresponding config.author.dev or prod configuration settings defined in nt:unstructured and start working.
Ref: https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/deploying/configure_runmodes.html
Ref: https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/RunModeDependentConfigAndInstall.html
Define a respository-based configuration for a single instance
There are two ways to configure CQ5.
Configure the Apache Felix Web Management Console
The configuration on the Apache Felix Web Management Console (http://:/system/console/configMgr) is always specific for the current instance.
You can find a description in the documentation: http://dev.day.com/content/docs/v5_2/html-resources/cq5_guide_system_administrator/ch05s03.html
Repository-based configuration
It is also possible to store configuration in the CRX repository as nodes of nodetype sling:OsgiConfig.
For more information, see http://dev.day.com/content/docs/v5_2/html-resources/cq5_guide_system_administrator/ch05s02.html
With this method, it is possible to share configuration among several instances.
The name of these nodes must be equal to the Persistent Identity (PID) of the configuration (for example, the name of the service). If you look at http://:/system/console/config, you see these names listed as service.pid properties. These configuration nodes have to be child-nodes of nodetype nt:folder with a name starting with config followed with a dot. All the run-modes that the config applies to are also separated with a dot.
Examples: config.author, config.publish, config.author.dev, config.author.foo.dev, and so on.
I'm looking for a way to replace this on my ActiveMQ config:
<transportConnector uri="tcp://localhost:60019"> disableAsyncDispatch="false"/>
with a "not-hardcoded" URI (e.g., replacing "localhost" with a variable that resolves to an instance dependent value). The problem is that as we have many JBoss instances per server, and that URI above resolves to 0.0.0.0:60019, only one instance at a time can be running, unless we configure it in a per-application basis, which is not only frustrating, but there are circumstances where it is not enough (should be per-instance based, which is much more frustrating).
Each JBoss server has its own IP address, so I thought of using ${jboss.bind.address} to circumvent this, but it won't syntax. We also have an environment variable %SERVERIP% which could be used for this calling it from a start up script, but I don't know if ActiveMQ reads an environment variable for assigning its transport connector URI.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Use a PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer and you should be able to replace the uri with some ${variable} from file or from jvm system variable. This should work since ActiveMQ configuration is really just a Spring context.
I have a WCF service that will serve multiple clients. I'm using ent lib for the logging.
I'd like to have a different log file for each client. is there a way to change the file name back and forth?
I found a few threads but they all talk about editing the config file during runtime.
ALso found this: Enterprise Library Logging but it talks about environment variables. I will set the log name according to the client id.
Thanks
Avi
You can have distinct categories linked to individually configured FlatFile or RollingFile tracelisteners for each client.
If filenames are unknown till runtime, consider using fluent API for configuration, like so:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff664363(PandP.50).aspx#fluent_api_logging
I'm writing, or trying to write, Baby's First MDB on WebSphere 7. I have nearly no hair left, having pulled it all out trying to get the thing to work. It appears that I've got everything set up right, but I get no response when I put a message to the associated queue.
Here's the EAR file setup:
simplemdb.ear
META-INF
Manifest.mf
application.xml
simplemdb.jar
META-INF
Manifest.mf
ejb-jar.xml
com
[ classes go here ]
I can't find any syntax for defining the queue's JNDI name in ejb-jar.xml, so instead I:
Define a WebSphere activation spec. Name SimpleMDBActivationSpec, JNDI name jms/SimpleActivationSpec, Destination jms/SimpleMDBQueue.
Define a WebSphere queue. Name SimpleMDBQueue, JNDI name jms/SimpleMDBQueue, Queue name SIMPLE.MDB.QUEUE.
Define an MQ queue, name SIMPLE.MDB.QUEUE.
Deploy the EAR file. During the deployment, I'm asked to enter binding information. I select Activation Specification, then point the Target Resource JNDI Name and Destination JNDI name at the activation spec and queue, respectively.
(The MDB code has no annotations.) At this point, the app points to the spec and queue, and the spec points to the queue - belt and suspenders. Naturally, I imagine that the app therefore knows about the queue. Full of hope, I put a message on the queue, and ... nothing. The onMessage event is supposed to use System.out to log a message. I see no message.
Clear documentation on this is conspicuous by its absence. Google gives LOTS of results, but none of them details how the configuration all fits together. There's lots of hand-waving about ibm-ejb-jar-bnd.xmi, but examples of the file are arcane, full of opaque numbers with no explanation about how they were generated, or how they relate to other parts of the configuration.
For goodness' sake. All I want to do is deploy an MDB, and have it write "Hello, world" when I put a message to a queue. I'm using vi and ant as my development and build tools. Can anybody out there give me an idea about what I'm missing?
Edit: "zos" tag added.
I found the problem. It's specific to WebSphere running on z/OS. For an activation spec to be fully available in that environment, the Control Region Adjunct (CRA) process must be started. I told WAS to start it up, recycled the app server, and lo! My MDB started responding.
To make the CRA start via the WebSphere Admin Console, go to ...
Application servers > [server name] > Communications > Messaging > WebSphere MQ CRA Settings
... and check the box that says "Start CRA". Hit OK, save it to the master configuration, and to make the CRA actually start, bring the app server down and back up. (This is for WAS 7.0.)
Thanks to everyone for their time and thoughtspace.
have a quick look at this and see if there is anything here that helps you.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/v1r1m0/topic/com.ibm.iea.wasfpejb/wasfpejb/6.1/DevelopmentTools/WASv61_EJB3FP_MDBLab.pdf
I haven't played with this for the last one year so i am not able to comment straight away but i thought the PDF might be of some assistance to you.
HTH
Manglu