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| title: Organizing Peers into Logical Member Groups |
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| In a peer-to-peer configuration, you can organize members into logical member groups and use those groups to associate specific data or assign tasks to a pre-defined set of members. |
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| You can use logical member groups to deploy JAR applications across multiple members or to execute functions across a member group. |
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| To add a peer to a member group, you can configure the following: |
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| 1. Add the member group names to the `gemfire.properties` file for the member. For example: |
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| ``` pre |
| #gemfire.properties |
| groups=Portfolios,ManagementGroup1 |
| ``` |
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| A member can belong to more than one member group. If specifying multiple member groups for a member, use a comma-separated list. Alternatively, if you are using the `gfsh` command interface to start up the member, provide the group name or group names as a parameter. |
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| For example, to start up a server and associate it with member groups, you could type: |
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| ``` pre |
| gfsh>start server --name=server1 \ |
| --group=Portfolios,ManagementGroup1 |
| ``` |
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| For example, to start up a locator and associate it with member groups, you could type: |
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| ``` pre |
| gfsh>start locator --name=locator1 \ |
| --group=ManagementGroup1 |
| ``` |
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| 2. Then you can use the member group names to perform tasks such as deploy applications or execute functions. |
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| For example, to deploy an application across a member group, you could type the following in `gfsh`: |
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| ``` pre |
| gfsh>deploy --jar=group1_functions.jar --group=ManagementGroup1 |
| ``` |
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