Quick notes on OpenSolaris 111a & GlassFish clustering

Some quick notes on upgrading 111 to 111a and preparing for GlassFish v2.1 clustering and load balancing tests:

(Note: This is really a scratch-pad of notes and resources for my own benefit, rather than a structured Blog for others to follow, however some of the resources might be useful for someone, somewhere)

OpenSolaris upgrade problems:

Graphical login failed to start

Simply restarting gdm fixed this problem!

svcadm disable gdm
svcadm enable gdm


Installing GlassFish v2.1 - problems:

Running java -Xmx256m -jar glassfish_xxx.jar reported "Not Enough Space Available"

zfs list showed 8gig space available

check for large files in swap directories:

pfexec du -k /tmp|sort -n
pfexec du -k /etc/svc/volatile|sort -n

Increasing swap space, adding a second swap file:

zfs create -V2G rpool/swap2 ; swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap2


GlassFish clustering:

Steps for setting up GlassFish clustering:

Setup default clustering profile;

lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup-cluster.xml

Start the DAS;

bin/asadmin start-domain --user admin

Create the node agent;

bin/asadmin create-node-agent

Start the node agent;

bin/asadmin start-node-agent

Create cluster and instances (for node agent) in GlassFish admin console.

Download Load Balancer plug-in according to platform

http://download.java.net/javaee5/external/


Guide to setting up GlassFish clustering:

http://blogs.sun.com/dadelhardt/entry/clustering_web_applications_with_glassfish1


Guide to setting up GlassFish with Load Balancer plugin:

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/build/GlassFish_LB_Cluster.html

Further resources:

Clustering with Apache HTTPd:

http://blogs.sun.com/jluehe/entry/supporting_apache_loadbalancer_with_glassfish


Interesting thread about clustering problems:

http://www.nabble.com/Cluster-session-replication-not-working-td20691318.html


GlassFish V2 Clustering presentation:

http://blogs.sun.com/stripathi/resource/Preso/GlassFishv2Clustering.pdf

Sun Clustering with GlassFish v2:

http://developers.sun.com/appserver/reference/techart/glassfishcluster/


Setting up GlassFish SSL support:

http://java.sun.com/mailers/techtips/enterprise/2007/TechTips2_Nov07.html


GlassFish JMX / JConsole:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4335/ablwi?a=view


Sun Java web server (for load balancing):

https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=SJWS6.1SP5-OTH-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI