1.1.2 NDB Cluster API Overview: The MGM API

The NDB Cluster Management API, also known as the MGM API, is a C-language programming interface intended to provide administrative services for the cluster. These include starting and stopping NDB Cluster nodes, handling NDB Cluster logging, backups, and restoration from backups, as well as various other management tasks. A conceptual overview of the MGM API and its uses can be found in Chapter 3, The MGM API.

The MGM API's principal structures model the states of individual modes (ndb_mgm_node_state), the state of the NDB Cluster as a whole (ndb_mgm_cluster_state), and management server response messages (ndb_mgm_reply). See Section 3.4, “MGM API Data Structures”, for detailed descriptions of these.