On 03/07/2012 07:04 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: > I don't think Maximum Concurrent Jobs ever controled console connections -- > the default is 1, so its hard to see how that would work.
Look at the old code. There was a kludge to let Consoles through. Kern > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:29:07 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: >> Phil, >> >> You might take a look at what you set Maximum Concurrent Jobs >> to in the Director. Each console has a job associated with it (jobid=0) >> and so if you reach the maximum, no more will start. >> >> Someone (not me) added Maximum Console Connections, which defaults >> to 20, but I am not 100% sure how it interacts with Maximum Concurrent >> Jobs. Before Maximum Console Connections, everything was lumped int >> Maximum Concurrent Jobs. >> >> Regards, >> Kern >> >> On 03/07/2012 03:58 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> OK, this is getting more and more peculiar as I study it more. Adding >>> bacula-devel list. >>> >>> To briefly recap the initial statement of the problem, I've been >>> experiencing a problem in which, after a number of successful >>> connections, console->Director connection authentication begins >>> repeatedly failing. Everything else seems to continue to work normally. >>> The typical behavior is that after manually starting two or three jobs >>> using BAT, I can no longer connect to the Director either with BAT or >>> with bconsole, but everything else continues to function normally and >>> the scheduled jobs run normally. After the pending manually-scheduled >>> jobs complete, I can connect again. >>> >>> >>> >>> On the theory that network bandwidth may be somehow involved, I tried >>> scheduling several jobs 15 minutes ahead of time, to see if I could get >>> more jobs running if I scheduled them all before any started. >>> >>> Starting at about 0915, schedule job 1 for 0925. No problem. >>> Schedule Job 2 for 0925. No problem. >>> Schedule job 3 for 0925. No problem. >>> At about 0918, try to schedule job 4 for 0925. None of the new jobs has >>> yet started. No go; neither bat nor bconsole can connect. >>> >>> >>> This is what the trace logged as I tried to connect with bconsole: >>> >>> babylon4-dir: bnet.c:708-0 who=client host=10.24.32.10 port=36131 >>> babylon4-dir: job.c:1331-0 wstorage=babylon5-sd >>> babylon4-dir: job.c:1340-0 wstore=babylon5-sd where=Pool resource >>> babylon4-dir: job.c:1031-0 JobId=0 created >>> Job=-Console-.2012-03-07_09.19.16_37 >>> babylon4-dir: cram-md5.c:72-0 send: auth cram-md5 >>> <1723850907.1331129956@babylon4-dir> ssl=0 >>> babylon4-dir: cram-md5.c:131-0 cram-get received: auth cram-md5 >>> <85736557.1331129966@bat> ssl=0 >>> babylon4-dir: cram-md5.c:150-0 sending resp to challenge: >>> 25Q2B+IdJ/UKI/+p6++vkC >>> babylon4-dir: ua_dotcmds.c:164-0 Cmd: .api 1 >>> babylon4-dir: ua_dotcmds.c:164-0 Cmd: .levels Backup >>> babylon4-dir: bnet.c:708-0 who=client host=10.24.32.10 port=36131 >>> babylon4-dir: bnet.c:708-0 who=client host=10.24.32.14 port=36131 >>> >>> >>> The console reported: >>> >>> babylon4:root:/opt/bacula/etc:29 # bconsole >>> Connecting to Director babylon4:9101 >>> Director authorization problem. >>> Most likely the passwords do not agree. >>> If you are using TLS, there may have been a certificate validation error >>> during the TLS handshake. >>> >>> >>> After restarting the Director, I re-enabled the trace (setdebug director >>> level=100 trace=1), then reconnected again with bconsole: >>> >>> babylon4-dir: bnet.c:708-0 who=client host=10.24.32.14 port=36131 >>> babylon4-dir: job.c:1331-0 wstorage=babylon5-sd >>> babylon4-dir: job.c:1340-0 wstore=babylon5-sd where=Pool resource >>> babylon4-dir: job.c:1031-0 JobId=0 created >>> Job=-Console-.2012-03-07_09.32.59_04 >>> babylon4-dir: cram-md5.c:72-0 send: auth cram-md5 >>> <1031666935.1331130779@babylon4-dir> ssl=0 >>> babylon4-dir: cram-md5.c:131-0 cram-get received: auth cram-md5 >>> <41725829.1331130779@bconsole> ssl=0 >>> babylon4-dir: cram-md5.c:150-0 sending resp to challenge: >>> 6Sgw8g8aLxgeAEx5CwsU1B >>> >>> This looks no different to me than the failed connection attempt. So I >>> tried starting up bconsole from the Linux machine I'm running bat on. >>> That worked fine, so I quit it and started another. I did this about >>> five times. Then I started six at once. No problem. >>> >>> It appears I can connect as many consoles as I want, up to the >>> Director's configured concurrency limit, with no problem ... until I >>> start scheduling jobs. >>> >>> So, then I opened a bconsole and left it open, then scheduled two jobs >>> from BAT successfully. Then I tried to schedule a third. No go. >>> >>> At this point, I tried to open an additional new bconsole. No go, and >>> the trace *did not log anything* for the connection attempt. I could >>> continue to schedule more manual jobs from the existing open bconsole, >>> but could start no new consoles, and BAT became completely unresponsive. >>> It appears that once two or three jobs were scheduled, the Director >>> *stopped listening* for new console connections, but continued to >>> service existing open consoles. >>> >>> >>> All daemons are Bacula 5.2.5, all 64-bit builds. The Director and the >>> disk-based SD are running on Solaris 10u9 amd64, built using Sun Studio >>> 12.2. The tape SD is running on Gentoo Linux amd64, built using >>> gcc-4.5.3. BAT runs on the Linux box, and I used bconsoles from both >>> machines with no difference in behavior. >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning >> Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing >> also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-devel mailing list >> bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
