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> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:21:02 +0200 > From: rainer.j...@kippdata.de > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: mod_jk status code and loadbalancer monitoring > > On 22.05.2009 23:09, Lawrence Lamprecht wrote: > > Rainer, > > > > Thanks for great advice, unfortunately I am not a programmer and have some > > issues when I try to compile the updated mod_jk. > > > > What I have tried is to compile mod_jk under Centos. > > > > Below are my proceedures. > > My config. > > > > [r...@localhost native]# head -n1 /etc/issue > > CentOS release 5.2 (Final) > > > > [r...@localhost native]# httpd -v > > Server version: Apache/2.2.3 > > Server built: Nov 12 2008 10:41:27 > > > > I started as instructed with > > ./buildconf.sh > > Don't do buildconf.sh. It is only needed if you checkout mod_jk directly > from the source code repository. It will create the configure script, > which is already contained in the official source code distributions. > > It might not produce any problem, but you need more tools installed to > be able to run buildconf.sh, than only for the real build. > > > ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs > > Make > > > > As far as I can see there were no error, I then copied the mod_jk.so to the > > apache modukes dir. > > > > The concern that I have was the location of the new file. > > /usr/src/tomcat-connectors-1.2.28-src/native/apache-2.0 > > > > My apache install is /etc/httpd/ > > > > The version of apache I am running is 2.2.3 and the one that was installed > > for is 2.0? > > No, odules for 2.0 and 2.2 will both be build inside the apache-2.0 > directory. It should have been named 2.x some time in the past. This > simply comes from the fact, that the module for 2.0 and for 2.2 can be > build form exactly the same source. > > Below that apache-2.0 there should be a .libs directory, that contains > the new mod_jk.so file. > > You then need to find out where your Apache installation keeps its > modules. Either look for the LoadModule lines in the config, or you > could try > > /usr/sbin/apxs -q libexecdir > > Caution: on some linux systems there's an apxs and an apxs2. The first > is to compile things for Apache 1.3 and the second for 2.x. > > > Other than that I am completely lost. > > > > Thanks again for your help and advice. > > HTH > > Rainer > > > > Read our blog: Intelligent Supply Management - Your advantage > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de] > > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:10 PM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: mod_jk status code and loadbalancer monitoring > > > > Hi Lawrence, > > > > I will answer in a slightly different order below. > > > > On 22.05.2009 13:58, Lawrence Lamprecht wrote: > >> I found a really old entry from way back in 2005. Reading through a > >> trail of messages under the heading "Adding working dynamically with > >> mod_jk status" > >> > >> What I would very much appreciate is two things. I would like to know > >> where I can get some clear documents on the status codes for mod_jk. > >> The status codes appear in the mod_jk.log file in the following format. > >> > >> [Wed May 20 06:27:47 2009] [21343:33088] [debug] jk_handler::mod_jk.c > >> (1969): Service finished with status=200 for worker=loadbalancer1 > >> > >> I have also seen other entries for status=302 etc. > >> > >> I would like to understand what these status code mean or represent. > >> > >> The second thing that I would like to see is, do you have any > >> information on monitoring the workers in the mod_jk config. I know > >> about the jkstatus function, but that is not very dynamic. It only > >> really reports errors if the wroker is called. > >> > >> I had an issue where I took down on of the two workers in the > >> loadbalancer config, I saw the error that the first worker was no > >> longer available, but as soon as the second worker took over the work, > >> then the error was cleared and nothing more was reported. > >> > >> I have had an idea, but seeing as I am not a programmer, I have no > >> idea how to achieve this, but I hope that someone else has also had > >> the same bright spark. > >> > >> I was hoping that there was some application that did something > >> similar to what webalizer does with the access.log file for the apache > >> web server that could analyze the mod_jk.log file and dynamically > >> report the status of the workers as things happen. Something like a > >> dashboard > >> to show what state the workers are in at any given time. When the log file > >> is rolling in debug mode, there is very much information that could be > >> used to report back on the worker status. > >> > >> I hope that someone might have some good ideas. > >> > >> Somehting that I have also thought about is possibly upgrading the mod_jk > >> version that I am running at the mo. > >> I have the following setup. > >> > >> Server version: Apache/2.0.52 > >> Server built: Jun 29 2007 05:08:11 > >> JK Version: 1.2.15 > >> > >> I get really confused with the different versions and compatibility, so > >> could I keep the current Apache version and only upgrade mod_jk, > >> Where would I find instauction on how to go about doing this. > >> > >> Thanks in advnce > >> Lawrence Lamprecht > > > > The status worker was added to mod_jk around the time of your version > > 1.2.15. It improved *a lot* since then. Actually during the last > > releases it was the focus of most of the development. So do yourself a > > favour and update mod_jk. Recent is 1.2.28. > > > > Compatibility: mod_jk works for Apache httpd 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2. You need > > to either compile it against your web server (preferred way) or fetch a > > binary for your httpd version somewhere, e.g. in our download area. > > > > You cannot use a mod_jk for 2.2 to run in 2.0 or vice versa, but the > > minor digits behind usually do not matter. Compiling is easy (depending > > a bit on your OS), so you best go that way. > > > > We deprecated some configuration attributes long ago, so after updateing > > have a look at the mod_jk log during startup, if it contains info about > > not supported or deprecated attributes. The docs contain info about how > > to replace those. There are only few such attributes. We didn't > > deprecate anything during the last 10 releases, but chances are, that > > you should change a few configuration attributes you used with 1.2.15. > > > > There is one caveat: JkMount not isn't inherited from the global server > > to any virtual host or between virtual hosts. If you have virtual hosts, > > put your JkMount into those or use JkMountCopy. See docs. > > > > Now about status codes: The code in the log line you cited is the HTTP > > status code we return to the client. Those are defined by the HTTP rfc, > > so 200="OK", 302 is a redirect, 500 is an internal server error etc. In > > most cases those are simply the ones we get from Tomcat, only if mod_jk > > detects an error itself it might generate an own status code like 500, > > 502, 503. > > > > Note that the log line is of debug level, so you are not expected to > > look at those during normal production. JkLogLevel info is enough for > > production. > > > > Any error will be logged at log level error, as long as no message of > > level error shows up, everything is fine. The info level messages are > > there to give additional info in case an error level message shows up. > > > > Dynamics of status worker: It is as dynamic as it can be. mod_jk doesn't > > do any probing. If there is an error with a worker we will only detect > > when there is a request for the worker. In that case, the status worker > > will immediately reflect the new status. In the latest two versions we > > started to implement a so-called watchdog thread, that does some very > > basic probing, namely a cping/cpong connection check for the pooled > > connections. The watchdog thread might get more powerful in the future. > > > > Concerning your observation with taking down one worker in a load > > balancer: Have a look at version 1.2.28. It should report the worker you > > took down as either ERR (if you didn't swicth activation to stopped in > > the status worker) the whole time it's down, or as STP in case you let > > the load balancer know, that the worker should not be used any longer > > (activation flag). > > > > For a dashboard it should be enough to poll the status worker like once > > a minute and present the results. The status worker allows varous > > response formats, which are easir to parse than HTML. See the status > > worker documntaiton page. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009
