To start the MySQL Cluster Manager agent on a given host running a Linux or
similar operating system, you should run
mcmd, found in the bin
directory within the manager installation directory on that
host. Typical options used with mcmd are
shown here:
mcmd [--config=filename | --bootstrap]
See Section 4.1, “mcmd, the MySQL Cluster Manager Agent”, for information about additional options that can be used when invoking mcmd from the command line, or in a configuration file.
mcmd normally runs in the foreground. If you
wish, you can use your platform's usual mechanism for
backgrounding a process. On a Linux system, you can do this by
appending an ampersand character (&
),
like this (not including any options that might be required):
$> ./bin/mcmd &
By default, the agent assumes that the agent configuration file
is mcmd.conf
in the MySQL Cluster Manager installation
directory (see Section 3.4, “MySQL Cluster Manager Configuration File”
for more details). You can tell the agent to use a different
configuration file by passing the path to this file to the
--config
option, as shown here:
$> ./bin/mcmd --config=/home/mcm/mcm-agent.conf
The --bootstrap
option causes the
agent to start with default configuration values, create a
default one-machine cluster named mycluster
,
and start it. This option works only if no sites have been
created yet.
The use of the --bootstrap
option
with mcmd is shown here on a system having
the host name torsk
, where MySQL Cluster Manager has been
installed to /home/jon/mcm
:
$> ./mcmd --bootstrap
logging facility initialized, switching logging to loggers specified in configuration
MySQL Cluster Manager 8.4.2 (64bit) started
Connect to MySQL Cluster Manager by running "/home/clusteradmin/mcm8.4.2/bin/mcm" -h torsk -P 1862
Configuring default cluster 'mycluster'...
Setting default_storage_engine to ndbcluster...
Starting default cluster 'mycluster' version '8.4.2-cluster'...
Cluster 'mycluster' started successfully
ndb_mgmd torsk:1186
ndbmtd torsk
ndbmtd torsk
mysqld torsk:3306
mysqld torsk:3307
ndbapi *
Connect to the database by running "/home/clusteradmin/cluster/bin/mysql" -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root
You can then connect to the agent using the mcm client (see Section 4.3, “Starting the MySQL Cluster Manager Client”), and to either of the MySQL Servers running on ports 3306 and 3307 using mysql or another MySQL client application.
See Section 4.1, “mcmd, the MySQL Cluster Manager Agent”, for more information about options that can be used with mcmd.
The MySQL Cluster Manager agent must be started on each host in the MySQL NDB Cluster to be managed.
To stop one or more instances of the MySQL Cluster Manager agent, use the
stop agents
command in the
MySQL Cluster Manager client. If the client is unavailable, you can stop each
agent process using the system's standard method for doing
so, such as ^C
or kill.
You can also set the agent up as a daemon or service on Linux
and other Unix-like systems. (See
Section 3.3.1, “Installing MySQL Cluster Manager on Unix-like Platforms”.) If you also want data
node failed processes from a running MySQL NDB Cluster to be started when
the agent fails and restarts in such cases, you must make sure
that StopOnError
is set
to 0 on each data node (and not to 1, the default).