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<h1>ZooKeeper Administrator's Guide</h1>
<h3>A Guide to Deployment and Administration</h3>
<div id="front-matter">
<div id="minitoc-area">
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#ch_deployment">Deployment</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#sc_systemReq">System Requirements</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#sc_supportedPlatforms">Supported Platforms</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_requiredSoftware">Required Software </a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_zkMulitServerSetup">Clustered (Multi-Server) Setup</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_singleAndDevSetup">Single Server and Developer Setup</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#ch_administration">Administration</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#sc_designing">Designing a ZooKeeper Deployment</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#sc_CrossMachineRequirements">Cross Machine Requirements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Single+Machine+Requirements">Single Machine Requirements</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_provisioning">Provisioning</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_strengthsAndLimitations">Things to Consider: ZooKeeper Strengths and Limitations</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_administering">Administering</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_maintenance">Maintenance</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#Ongoing+Data+Directory+Cleanup">Ongoing Data Directory Cleanup</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Debug+Log+Cleanup+%28log4j%29">Debug Log Cleanup (log4j)</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_supervision">Supervision</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_monitoring">Monitoring</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_logging">Logging</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_configuration">Configuration Parameters</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#sc_minimumConfiguration">Minimum Configuration</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_advancedConfiguration">Advanced Configuration</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_clusterOptions">Cluster Options</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_authOptions">Authentication &amp; Authorization Options</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Experimental+Options%2FFeatures">Experimental Options/Features</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Unsafe+Options">Unsafe Options</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Communication+using+the+Netty+framework">Communication using the Netty framework</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_zkCommands">ZooKeeper Commands: The Four Letter Words</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_dataFileManagement">Data File Management</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#The+Data+Directory">The Data Directory</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#The+Log+Directory">The Log Directory</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_filemanagement">File Management</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Recovery+-+TxnLogToolkit">Recovery - TxnLogToolkit</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_commonProblems">Things to Avoid</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#sc_bestPractices">Best Practices</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<a name="ch_deployment"></a>
<h2 class="h3">Deployment</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>This section contains information about deploying Zookeeper and
covers these topics:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_systemReq">System Requirements</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_zkMulitServerSetup">Clustered (Multi-Server) Setup</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_singleAndDevSetup">Single Server and Developer Setup</a>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The first two sections assume you are interested in installing
ZooKeeper in a production environment such as a datacenter. The final
section covers situations in which you are setting up ZooKeeper on a
limited basis - for evaluation, testing, or development - but not in a
production environment.</p>
<a name="sc_systemReq"></a>
<h3 class="h4">System Requirements</h3>
<a name="sc_supportedPlatforms"></a>
<h4>Supported Platforms</h4>
<p>ZooKeeper consists of multiple components. Some components are
supported broadly, and other components are supported only on a smaller
set of platforms.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<strong>Client</strong> is the Java client
library, used by applications to connect to a ZooKeeper ensemble.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<strong>Server</strong> is the Java server
that runs on the ZooKeeper ensemble nodes.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<strong>Native Client</strong> is a client
implemented in C, similar to the Java client, used by applications
to connect to a ZooKeeper ensemble.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<strong>Contrib</strong> refers to multiple
optional add-on components.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The following matrix describes the level of support committed for
running each component on different operating system platforms.</p>
<table class="ForrestTable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<caption>Support Matrix</caption>
<title>Support Matrix</title>
<tr>
<th>Operating System</th>
<th>Client</th>
<th>Server</th>
<th>Native Client</th>
<th>Contrib</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GNU/Linux</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Solaris</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FreeBSD</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Windows</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Development and Production</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mac OS X</td>
<td>Development Only</td>
<td>Development Only</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
<td>Not Supported</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>For any operating system not explicitly mentioned as supported in
the matrix, components may or may not work. The ZooKeeper community
will fix obvious bugs that are reported for other platforms, but there
is no full support.</p>
<a name="sc_requiredSoftware"></a>
<h4>Required Software </h4>
<p>ZooKeeper runs in Java, release 1.6 or greater (JDK 6 or
greater). It runs as an <em>ensemble</em> of
ZooKeeper servers. Three ZooKeeper servers is the minimum
recommended size for an ensemble, and we also recommend that
they run on separate machines. At Yahoo!, ZooKeeper is
usually deployed on dedicated RHEL boxes, with dual-core
processors, 2GB of RAM, and 80GB IDE hard drives.</p>
<a name="sc_zkMulitServerSetup"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Clustered (Multi-Server) Setup</h3>
<p>For reliable ZooKeeper service, you should deploy ZooKeeper in a
cluster known as an <em>ensemble</em>. As long as a majority
of the ensemble are up, the service will be available. Because Zookeeper
requires a majority, it is best to use an
odd number of machines. For example, with four machines ZooKeeper can
only handle the failure of a single machine; if two machines fail, the
remaining two machines do not constitute a majority. However, with five
machines ZooKeeper can handle the failure of two machines. </p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p>
As mentioned in the
<a href="zookeeperStarted.html">ZooKeeper Getting Started Guide</a>
, a minimum of three servers are required for a fault tolerant
clustered setup, and it is strongly recommended that you have an
odd number of servers.
</p>
<p>Usually three servers is more than enough for a production
install, but for maximum reliability during maintenance, you may
wish to install five servers. With three servers, if you perform
maintenance on one of them, you are vulnerable to a failure on one
of the other two servers during that maintenance. If you have five
of them running, you can take one down for maintenance, and know
that you're still OK if one of the other four suddenly fails.
</p>
<p>Your redundancy considerations should include all aspects of
your environment. If you have three ZooKeeper servers, but their
network cables are all plugged into the same network switch, then
the failure of that switch will take down your entire ensemble.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<p>Here are the steps to setting a server that will be part of an
ensemble. These steps should be performed on every host in the
ensemble:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Install the Java JDK. You can use the native packaging system
for your system, or download the JDK from:</p>
<p>
<a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp">http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Set the Java heap size. This is very important to avoid
swapping, which will seriously degrade ZooKeeper performance. To
determine the correct value, use load tests, and make sure you are
well below the usage limit that would cause you to swap. Be
conservative - use a maximum heap size of 3GB for a 4GB
machine.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Install the ZooKeeper Server Package. It can be downloaded
from:
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html">
http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html
</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Create a configuration file. This file can be called anything.
Use the following settings as a starting point:</p>
<pre class="code">
tickTime=2000
dataDir=/var/lib/zookeeper/
clientPort=2181
initLimit=5
syncLimit=2
server.1=zoo1:2888:3888
server.2=zoo2:2888:3888
server.3=zoo3:2888:3888</pre>
<p>You can find the meanings of these and other configuration
settings in the section <a href="#sc_configuration">Configuration Parameters</a>. A word
though about a few here:</p>
<p>Every machine that is part of the ZooKeeper ensemble should know
about every other machine in the ensemble. You accomplish this with
the series of lines of the form <strong>server.id=host:port:port</strong>. The parameters <strong>host</strong> and <strong>port</strong> are straightforward. You attribute the
server id to each machine by creating a file named
<span class="codefrag filename">myid</span>, one for each server, which resides in
that server's data directory, as specified by the configuration file
parameter <strong>dataDir</strong>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The myid file
consists of a single line containing only the text of that machine's
id. So <span class="codefrag filename">myid</span> of server 1 would contain the text
"1" and nothing else. The id must be unique within the
ensemble and should have a value between 1 and 255.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If your configuration file is set up, you can start a
ZooKeeper server:</p>
<p>
<span class="codefrag computeroutput">$ java -cp zookeeper.jar:lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar:conf \
org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain zoo.cfg
</span>
</p>
<p>QuorumPeerMain starts a ZooKeeper server,
<a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/mntr-mgmt/javamanagement/">JMX</a>
management beans are also registered which allows
management through a JMX management console.
The <a href="zookeeperJMX.html">ZooKeeper JMX
document</a> contains details on managing ZooKeeper with JMX.
</p>
<p>See the script <em>bin/zkServer.sh</em>,
which is included in the release, for an example
of starting server instances.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Test your deployment by connecting to the hosts:</p>
<p>In Java, you can run the following command to execute
simple operations:</p>
<p>
<span class="codefrag computeroutput">$ bin/zkCli.sh -server 127.0.0.1:2181</span>
</p>
</li>
</ol>
<a name="sc_singleAndDevSetup"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Single Server and Developer Setup</h3>
<p>If you want to setup ZooKeeper for development purposes, you will
probably want to setup a single server instance of ZooKeeper, and then
install either the Java or C client-side libraries and bindings on your
development machine.</p>
<p>The steps to setting up a single server instance are the similar
to the above, except the configuration file is simpler. You can find the
complete instructions in the <a href="zookeeperStarted.html#sc_InstallingSingleMode">Installing and
Running ZooKeeper in Single Server Mode</a> section of the <a href="zookeeperStarted.html">ZooKeeper Getting Started
Guide</a>.</p>
<p>For information on installing the client side libraries, refer to
the <a href="zookeeperProgrammers.html#Bindings">Bindings</a>
section of the <a href="zookeeperProgrammers.html">ZooKeeper
Programmer's Guide</a>.</p>
</div>
<a name="ch_administration"></a>
<h2 class="h3">Administration</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>This section contains information about running and maintaining
ZooKeeper and covers these topics: </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_designing">Designing a ZooKeeper Deployment</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_provisioning">Provisioning</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_strengthsAndLimitations">Things to Consider: ZooKeeper Strengths and Limitations</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_administering">Administering</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_maintenance">Maintenance</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_supervision">Supervision</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_monitoring">Monitoring</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_logging">Logging</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_configuration">Configuration Parameters</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_zkCommands">ZooKeeper Commands: The Four Letter Words</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_dataFileManagement">Data File Management</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_commonProblems">Things to Avoid</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="#sc_bestPractices">Best Practices</a>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="sc_designing"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Designing a ZooKeeper Deployment</h3>
<p>The reliablity of ZooKeeper rests on two basic assumptions.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p> Only a minority of servers in a deployment
will fail. <em>Failure</em> in this context
means a machine crash, or some error in the network that
partitions a server off from the majority.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p> Deployed machines operate correctly. To
operate correctly means to execute code correctly, to have
clocks that work properly, and to have storage and network
components that perform consistently.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>The sections below contain considerations for ZooKeeper
administrators to maximize the probability for these assumptions
to hold true. Some of these are cross-machines considerations,
and others are things you should consider for each and every
machine in your deployment.</p>
<a name="sc_CrossMachineRequirements"></a>
<h4>Cross Machine Requirements</h4>
<p>For the ZooKeeper service to be active, there must be a
majority of non-failing machines that can communicate with
each other. To create a deployment that can tolerate the
failure of F machines, you should count on deploying 2xF+1
machines. Thus, a deployment that consists of three machines
can handle one failure, and a deployment of five machines can
handle two failures. Note that a deployment of six machines
can only handle two failures since three machines is not a
majority. For this reason, ZooKeeper deployments are usually
made up of an odd number of machines.</p>
<p>To achieve the highest probability of tolerating a failure
you should try to make machine failures independent. For
example, if most of the machines share the same switch,
failure of that switch could cause a correlated failure and
bring down the service. The same holds true of shared power
circuits, cooling systems, etc.</p>
<a name="Single+Machine+Requirements"></a>
<h4>Single Machine Requirements</h4>
<p>If ZooKeeper has to contend with other applications for
access to resourses like storage media, CPU, network, or
memory, its performance will suffer markedly. ZooKeeper has
strong durability guarantees, which means it uses storage
media to log changes before the operation responsible for the
change is allowed to complete. You should be aware of this
dependency then, and take great care if you want to ensure
that ZooKeeper operations aren&rsquo;t held up by your media. Here
are some things you can do to minimize that sort of
degradation:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>ZooKeeper's transaction log must be on a dedicated
device. (A dedicated partition is not enough.) ZooKeeper
writes the log sequentially, without seeking Sharing your
log device with other processes can cause seeks and
contention, which in turn can cause multi-second
delays.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Do not put ZooKeeper in a situation that can cause a
swap. In order for ZooKeeper to function with any sort of
timeliness, it simply cannot be allowed to swap.
Therefore, make certain that the maximum heap size given
to ZooKeeper is not bigger than the amount of real memory
available to ZooKeeper. For more on this, see
<a href="#sc_commonProblems">Things to Avoid</a>
below. </p>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="sc_provisioning"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Provisioning</h3>
<p></p>
<a name="sc_strengthsAndLimitations"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Things to Consider: ZooKeeper Strengths and Limitations</h3>
<p></p>
<a name="sc_administering"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Administering</h3>
<p></p>
<a name="sc_maintenance"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Maintenance</h3>
<p>Little long term maintenance is required for a ZooKeeper
cluster however you must be aware of the following:</p>
<a name="Ongoing+Data+Directory+Cleanup"></a>
<h4>Ongoing Data Directory Cleanup</h4>
<p>The ZooKeeper <a href="#var_datadir">Data
Directory</a> contains files which are a persistent copy
of the znodes stored by a particular serving ensemble. These
are the snapshot and transactional log files. As changes are
made to the znodes these changes are appended to a
transaction log. Occasionally, when a log grows large, a
snapshot of the current state of all znodes will be written
to the filesystem and a new transaction log file is created
for future transactions. During snapshotting, ZooKeeper may
continue appending incoming transactions to the old log file.
Therefore, some transactions which are newer than a snapshot
may be found in the last transaction log preceding the
snapshot.
</p>
<p>A ZooKeeper server <strong>will not remove
old snapshots and log files</strong> when using the default
configuration (see autopurge below), this is the
responsibility of the operator. Every serving environment is
different and therefore the requirements of managing these
files may differ from install to install (backup for example).
</p>
<p>The PurgeTxnLog utility implements a simple retention
policy that administrators can use. The <a href="api/index.html">API docs</a> contains details on
calling conventions (arguments, etc...).
</p>
<p>In the following example the last count snapshots and
their corresponding logs are retained and the others are
deleted. The value of &lt;count&gt; should typically be
greater than 3 (although not required, this provides 3 backups
in the unlikely event a recent log has become corrupted). This
can be run as a cron job on the ZooKeeper server machines to
clean up the logs daily.</p>
<pre class="code"> java -cp zookeeper.jar:lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar:conf org.apache.zookeeper.server.PurgeTxnLog &lt;dataDir&gt; &lt;snapDir&gt; -n &lt;count&gt;</pre>
<p>Automatic purging of the snapshots and corresponding
transaction logs was introduced in version 3.4.0 and can be
enabled via the following configuration parameters <strong>autopurge.snapRetainCount</strong> and <strong>autopurge.purgeInterval</strong>. For more on
this, see <a href="#sc_advancedConfiguration">Advanced Configuration</a>
below.</p>
<a name="Debug+Log+Cleanup+%28log4j%29"></a>
<h4>Debug Log Cleanup (log4j)</h4>
<p>See the section on <a href="#sc_logging">logging</a> in this document. It is
expected that you will setup a rolling file appender using the
in-built log4j feature. The sample configuration file in the
release tar's conf/log4j.properties provides an example of
this.
</p>
<a name="sc_supervision"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Supervision</h3>
<p>You will want to have a supervisory process that manages
each of your ZooKeeper server processes (JVM). The ZK server is
designed to be "fail fast" meaning that it will shutdown
(process exit) if an error occurs that it cannot recover
from. As a ZooKeeper serving cluster is highly reliable, this
means that while the server may go down the cluster as a whole
is still active and serving requests. Additionally, as the
cluster is "self healing" the failed server once restarted will
automatically rejoin the ensemble w/o any manual
interaction.</p>
<p>Having a supervisory process such as <a href="http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html">daemontools</a> or
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Management_Facility">SMF</a>
(other options for supervisory process are also available, it's
up to you which one you would like to use, these are just two
examples) managing your ZooKeeper server ensures that if the
process does exit abnormally it will automatically be restarted
and will quickly rejoin the cluster.</p>
<a name="sc_monitoring"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Monitoring</h3>
<p>The ZooKeeper service can be monitored in one of two
primary ways; 1) the command port through the use of <a href="#sc_zkCommands">4 letter words</a> and 2) <a href="zookeeperJMX.html">JMX</a>. See the appropriate section for
your environment/requirements.</p>
<a name="sc_logging"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Logging</h3>
<p>ZooKeeper uses <strong>log4j</strong> version 1.2 as
its logging infrastructure. The ZooKeeper default <span class="codefrag filename">log4j.properties</span>
file resides in the <span class="codefrag filename">conf</span> directory. Log4j requires that
<span class="codefrag filename">log4j.properties</span> either be in the working directory
(the directory from which ZooKeeper is run) or be accessible from the classpath.</p>
<p>For more information, see
<a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html#defaultInit">Log4j Default Initialization Procedure</a>
of the log4j manual.</p>
<a name="sc_troubleshooting"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Troubleshooting</h3>
<dl>
<dt>
<term> Server not coming up because of file corruption</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>A server might not be able to read its database and fail to come up because of
some file corruption in the transaction logs of the ZooKeeper server. You will
see some IOException on loading ZooKeeper database. In such a case,
make sure all the other servers in your ensemble are up and working. Use "stat"
command on the command port to see if they are in good health. After you have verified that
all the other servers of the ensemble are up, you can go ahead and clean the database
of the corrupt server. Delete all the files in datadir/version-2 and datalogdir/version-2/.
Restart the server.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="sc_configuration"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Configuration Parameters</h3>
<p>ZooKeeper's behavior is governed by the ZooKeeper configuration
file. This file is designed so that the exact same file can be used by
all the servers that make up a ZooKeeper server assuming the disk
layouts are the same. If servers use different configuration files, care
must be taken to ensure that the list of servers in all of the different
configuration files match.</p>
<a name="sc_minimumConfiguration"></a>
<h4>Minimum Configuration</h4>
<p>Here are the minimum configuration keywords that must be defined
in the configuration file:</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>clientPort</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>the port to listen for client connections; that is, the
port that clients attempt to connect to.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>dataDir</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>the location where ZooKeeper will store the in-memory
database snapshots and, unless specified otherwise, the
transaction log of updates to the database.</p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Be careful where you put the transaction log. A
dedicated transaction log device is key to consistent good
performance. Putting the log on a busy device will adversely
effect performance.</p>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>tickTime</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>the length of a single tick, which is the basic time unit
used by ZooKeeper, as measured in milliseconds. It is used to
regulate heartbeats, and timeouts. For example, the minimum
session timeout will be two ticks.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="sc_advancedConfiguration"></a>
<h4>Advanced Configuration</h4>
<p>The configuration settings in the section are optional. You can
use them to further fine tune the behaviour of your ZooKeeper servers.
Some can also be set using Java system properties, generally of the
form <em>zookeeper.keyword</em>. The exact system
property, when available, is noted below.</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>dataLogDir</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>This option will direct the machine to write the
transaction log to the <strong>dataLogDir</strong> rather than the <strong>dataDir</strong>. This allows a dedicated log
device to be used, and helps avoid competition between logging
and snaphots.</p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Having a dedicated log device has a large impact on
throughput and stable latencies. It is highly recommened to
dedicate a log device and set <strong>dataLogDir</strong> to point to a directory on
that device, and then make sure to point <strong>dataDir</strong> to a directory
<em>not</em> residing on that device.</p>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>globalOutstandingLimit</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.globalOutstandingLimit.</strong>)</p>
<p>Clients can submit requests faster than ZooKeeper can
process them, especially if there are a lot of clients. To
prevent ZooKeeper from running out of memory due to queued
requests, ZooKeeper will throttle clients so that there is no
more than globalOutstandingLimit outstanding requests in the
system. The default limit is 1,000.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>preAllocSize</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.preAllocSize</strong>)</p>
<p>To avoid seeks ZooKeeper allocates space in the
transaction log file in blocks of preAllocSize kilobytes. The
default block size is 64M. One reason for changing the size of
the blocks is to reduce the block size if snapshots are taken
more often. (Also, see <strong>snapCount</strong>).</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>snapCount</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.snapCount</strong>)</p>
<p>ZooKeeper records its transactions using snapshots and
a transaction log (think write-ahead log).The number of
transactions recorded in the transaction log before a snapshot
can be taken (and the transaction log rolled) is determined
by snapCount. In order to prevent all of the machines in the quorum
from taking a snapshot at the same time, each ZooKeeper server
will take a snapshot when the number of transactions in the transaction log
reaches a runtime generated random value in the [snapCount/2+1, snapCount]
range.The default snapCount is 100,000.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>maxClientCnxns</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>Limits the number of concurrent connections (at the socket
level) that a single client, identified by IP address, may make
to a single member of the ZooKeeper ensemble. This is used to
prevent certain classes of DoS attacks, including file
descriptor exhaustion. The default is 60. Setting this to 0
entirely removes the limit on concurrent connections.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>clientPortAddress</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> the
address (ipv4, ipv6 or hostname) to listen for client
connections; that is, the address that clients attempt
to connect to. This is optional, by default we bind in
such a way that any connection to the <strong>clientPort</strong> for any
address/interface/nic on the server will be
accepted.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>minSessionTimeout</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> the
minimum session timeout in milliseconds that the server
will allow the client to negotiate. Defaults to 2 times
the <strong>tickTime</strong>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>maxSessionTimeout</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> the
maximum session timeout in milliseconds that the server
will allow the client to negotiate. Defaults to 20 times
the <strong>tickTime</strong>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>fsync.warningthresholdms</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.fsync.warningthresholdms</strong>)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.4:</strong> A
warning message will be output to the log whenever an
fsync in the Transactional Log (WAL) takes longer than
this value. The values is specified in milliseconds and
defaults to 1000. This value can only be set as a
system property.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>autopurge.snapRetainCount</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.0:</strong>
When enabled, ZooKeeper auto purge feature retains
the <strong>autopurge.snapRetainCount</strong> most
recent snapshots and the corresponding transaction logs in the
<strong>dataDir</strong> and <strong>dataLogDir</strong> respectively and deletes the rest.
Defaults to 3. Minimum value is 3.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>autopurge.purgeInterval</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.0:</strong> The
time interval in hours for which the purge task has to
be triggered. Set to a positive integer (1 and above)
to enable the auto purging. Defaults to 0.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>syncEnabled</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.observer.syncEnabled</strong>)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.6, 3.5.0:</strong>
The observers now log transaction and write snapshot to disk
by default like the participants. This reduces the recovery time
of the observers on restart. Set to "false" to disable this
feature. Default is "true"</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="sc_clusterOptions"></a>
<h4>Cluster Options</h4>
<p>The options in this section are designed for use with an ensemble
of servers -- that is, when deploying clusters of servers.</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>electionAlg</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>Election implementation to use. A value of "0" corresponds
to the original UDP-based version, "1" corresponds to the
non-authenticated UDP-based version of fast leader election, "2"
corresponds to the authenticated UDP-based version of fast
leader election, and "3" corresponds to TCP-based version of
fast leader election. Currently, algorithm 3 is the default</p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p> The implementations of leader election 0, 1, and 2 are now
<strong> deprecated </strong>. We have the intention
of removing them in the next release, at which point only the
FastLeaderElection will be available.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>initLimit</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>Amount of time, in ticks (see <a href="#id_tickTime">tickTime</a>), to allow followers to
connect and sync to a leader. Increased this value as needed, if
the amount of data managed by ZooKeeper is large.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>leaderServes</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: zookeeper.<strong>leaderServes</strong>)</p>
<p>Leader accepts client connections. Default value is "yes".
The leader machine coordinates updates. For higher update
throughput at thes slight expense of read throughput the leader
can be configured to not accept clients and focus on
coordination. The default to this option is yes, which means
that a leader will accept client connections.</p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Turning on leader selection is highly recommended when
you have more than three ZooKeeper servers in an ensemble.</p>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>server.x=[hostname]:nnnnn[:nnnnn], etc</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>servers making up the ZooKeeper ensemble. When the server
starts up, it determines which server it is by looking for the
file <span class="codefrag filename">myid</span> in the data directory. That file
contains the server number, in ASCII, and it should match
<strong>x</strong> in <strong>server.x</strong> in the left hand side of this
setting.</p>
<p>The list of servers that make up ZooKeeper servers that is
used by the clients must match the list of ZooKeeper servers
that each ZooKeeper server has.</p>
<p>There are two port numbers <strong>nnnnn</strong>.
The first followers use to connect to the leader, and the second is for
leader election. The leader election port is only necessary if electionAlg
is 1, 2, or 3 (default). If electionAlg is 0, then the second port is not
necessary. If you want to test multiple servers on a single machine, then
different ports can be used for each server.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>syncLimit</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>Amount of time, in ticks (see <a href="#id_tickTime">tickTime</a>), to allow followers to sync
with ZooKeeper. If followers fall too far behind a leader, they
will be dropped.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>group.x=nnnnn[:nnnnn]</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>Enables a hierarchical quorum construction."x" is a group identifier
and the numbers following the "=" sign correspond to server identifiers.
The left-hand side of the assignment is a colon-separated list of server
identifiers. Note that groups must be disjoint and the union of all groups
must be the ZooKeeper ensemble. </p>
<p> You will find an example <a href="zookeeperHierarchicalQuorums.html">here</a>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>weight.x=nnnnn</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(No Java system property)</p>
<p>Used along with "group", it assigns a weight to a server when
forming quorums. Such a value corresponds to the weight of a server
when voting. There are a few parts of ZooKeeper that require voting
such as leader election and the atomic broadcast protocol. By default
the weight of server is 1. If the configuration defines groups, but not
weights, then a value of 1 will be assigned to all servers.
</p>
<p> You will find an example <a href="zookeeperHierarchicalQuorums.html">here</a>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>cnxTimeout</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: zookeeper.<strong>cnxTimeout</strong>)</p>
<p>Sets the timeout value for opening connections for leader election notifications.
Only applicable if you are using electionAlg 3.
</p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Default value is 5 seconds.</p>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>4lw.commands.whitelist</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.4lw.commands.whitelist</strong>)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.10:</strong>
This property contains a list of comma separated
<a href="#sc_zkCommands">Four Letter Words</a> commands. It is introduced
to provide fine grained control over the set of commands ZooKeeper can execute,
so users can turn off certain commands if necessary.
By default it contains all supported four letter word commands except "wchp" and "wchc",
if the property is not specified. If the property is specified, then only commands listed
in the whitelist are enabled.
</p>
<p>Here's an example of the configuration that enables stat, ruok, conf, and isro
command while disabling the rest of Four Letter Words command:</p>
<pre class="code">
4lw.commands.whitelist=stat, ruok, conf, isro
</pre>
<p>Users can also use asterisk option so they don't have to include every command one by one in the list.
As an example, this will enable all four letter word commands:
</p>
<pre class="code">
4lw.commands.whitelist=*
</pre>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>ipReachableTimeout</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.ipReachableTimeout</strong>)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.11:</strong>
Set this timeout value for IP addresses reachable checking when hostname is resolved, as mesured in
milliseconds.
By default, ZooKeeper will use the first IP address of the hostname(without any reachable checking).
When zookeeper.ipReachableTimeout is set(larger than 0), ZooKeeper will will try to pick up the first
IP address which is reachable. This is done by calling Java API InetAddress.isReachable(long timeout)
function, in which this timeout value is used. If none of such reachable IP address can be found, the
first IP address of the hostname will be used anyway.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>tcpKeepAlive</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.tcpKeepAlive</strong>)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.11:</strong>
Setting this to true sets the TCP keepAlive flag on the
sockets used by quorum members to perform elections.
This will allow for connections between quorum members to
remain up when there is network infrastructure that may
otherwise break them. Some NATs and firewalls may terminate
or lose state for long running or idle connections.</p>
<p> Enabling this option relies on OS level settings to work
properly, check your operating system's options regarding TCP
keepalive for more information. Defaults to
<strong>false</strong>.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p></p>
<a name="sc_authOptions"></a>
<h4>Authentication &amp; Authorization Options</h4>
<p>The options in this section allow control over
authentication/authorization performed by the service.</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>zookeeper.DigestAuthenticationProvider.superDigest</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property only: <strong>zookeeper.DigestAuthenticationProvider.superDigest</strong>)</p>
<p>By default this feature is <strong>disabled</strong>
</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.2:</strong>
Enables a ZooKeeper ensemble administrator to access the
znode hierarchy as a "super" user. In particular no ACL
checking occurs for a user authenticated as
super.</p>
<p>org.apache.zookeeper.server.auth.DigestAuthenticationProvider
can be used to generate the superDigest, call it with
one parameter of "super:&lt;password&gt;". Provide the
generated "super:&lt;data&gt;" as the system property value
when starting each server of the ensemble.</p>
<p>When authenticating to a ZooKeeper server (from a
ZooKeeper client) pass a scheme of "digest" and authdata
of "super:&lt;password&gt;". Note that digest auth passes
the authdata in plaintext to the server, it would be
prudent to use this authentication method only on
localhost (not over the network) or over an encrypted
connection.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>isro</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.0:</strong> Tests if
server is running in read-only mode. The server will respond with
"ro" if in read-only mode or "rw" if not in read-only mode.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>gtmk</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Gets the current trace mask as a 64-bit signed long value in
decimal format. See <span class="codefrag command">stmk</span> for an explanation of
the possible values.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>stmk</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Sets the current trace mask. The trace mask is 64 bits,
where each bit enables or disables a specific category of trace
logging on the server. Log4J must be configured to enable
<span class="codefrag command">TRACE</span> level first in order to see trace logging
messages. The bits of the trace mask correspond to the following
trace logging categories.</p>
<table class="ForrestTable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<caption>Trace Mask Bit Values</caption>
<title>Trace Mask Bit Values</title>
<tr>
<td>0b0000000000</td>
<td>Unused, reserved for future use.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0000000010</td>
<td>Logs client requests, excluding ping
requests.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0000000100</td>
<td>Unused, reserved for future use.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0000001000</td>
<td>Logs client ping requests.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0000010000</td>
<td>Logs packets received from the quorum peer that is
the current leader, excluding ping requests.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0000100000</td>
<td>Logs addition, removal and validation of client
sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0001000000</td>
<td>Logs delivery of watch events to client
sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0010000000</td>
<td>Logs ping packets received from the quorum peer
that is the current leader.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b0100000000</td>
<td>Unused, reserved for future use.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0b1000000000</td>
<td>Unused, reserved for future use.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>All remaining bits in the 64-bit value are unused and
reserved for future use. Multiple trace logging categories are
specified by calculating the bitwise OR of the documented values.
The default trace mask is 0b0100110010. Thus, by default, trace
logging includes client requests, packets received from the
leader and sessions.</p>
<p>To set a different trace mask, send a request containing the
<span class="codefrag command">stmk</span> four-letter word followed by the trace
mask represented as a 64-bit signed long value. This example uses
the Perl <span class="codefrag command">pack</span> function to construct a trace
mask that enables all trace logging categories described above and
convert it to a 64-bit signed long value with big-endian byte
order. The result is appended to <span class="codefrag command">stmk</span> and sent
to the server using netcat. The server responds with the new
trace mask in decimal format.</p>
<pre class="code">$ perl -e "print 'stmk', pack('q&gt;', 0b0011111010)" | nc localhost 2181
250
</pre>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="Experimental+Options%2FFeatures"></a>
<h4>Experimental Options/Features</h4>
<p>New features that are currently considered experimental.</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>Read Only Mode Server</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>readonlymode.enabled</strong>)</p>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.0:</strong>
Setting this value to true enables Read Only Mode server
support (disabled by default). ROM allows clients
sessions which requested ROM support to connect to the
server even when the server might be partitioned from
the quorum. In this mode ROM clients can still read
values from the ZK service, but will be unable to write
values and see changes from other clients. See
ZOOKEEPER-784 for more details.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="Unsafe+Options"></a>
<h4>Unsafe Options</h4>
<p>The following options can be useful, but be careful when you use
them. The risk of each is explained along with the explanation of what
the variable does.</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>forceSync</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.forceSync</strong>)</p>
<p>Requires updates to be synced to media of the transaction
log before finishing processing the update. If this option is
set to no, ZooKeeper will not require updates to be synced to
the media.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>jute.maxbuffer:</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property:<strong>
jute.maxbuffer</strong>)</p>
<p>This option can only be set as a Java system property.
There is no zookeeper prefix on it. It specifies the maximum
size of the data that can be stored in a znode. The default is
0xfffff, or just under 1M. If this option is changed, the system
property must be set on all servers and clients otherwise
problems will arise. This is really a sanity check. ZooKeeper is
designed to store data on the order of kilobytes in size.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>skipACL</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>(Java system property: <strong>zookeeper.skipACL</strong>)</p>
<p>Skips ACL checks. This results in a boost in throughput,
but opens up full access to the data tree to everyone.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>quorumListenOnAllIPs</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>When set to true the ZooKeeper server will listen
for connections from its peers on all available IP addresses,
and not only the address configured in the server list of the
configuration file. It affects the connections handling the
ZAB protocol and the Fast Leader Election protocol. Default
value is <strong>false</strong>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="Communication+using+the+Netty+framework"></a>
<h4>Communication using the Netty framework</h4>
<p>
<strong>New in
3.4:</strong> <a href="http://jboss.org/netty">Netty</a>
is an NIO based client/server communication framework, it
simplifies (over NIO being used directly) many of the
complexities of network level communication for java
applications. Additionally the Netty framework has built
in support for encryption (SSL) and authentication
(certificates). These are optional features and can be
turned on or off individually.
</p>
<p>Prior to version 3.4 ZooKeeper has always used NIO
directly, however in versions 3.4 and later Netty is
supported as an option to NIO (replaces). NIO continues to
be the default, however Netty based communication can be
used in place of NIO by setting the environment variable
"zookeeper.serverCnxnFactory" to
"org.apache.zookeeper.server.NettyServerCnxnFactory". You
have the option of setting this on either the client(s) or
server(s), typically you would want to set this on both,
however that is at your discretion.
</p>
<p>
TBD - tuning options for netty - currently there are none that are netty specific but we should add some. Esp around max bound on the number of reader worker threads netty creates.
</p>
<p>
TBD - how to manage encryption
</p>
<p>
TBD - how to manage certificates
</p>
<a name="sc_zkCommands"></a>
<h3 class="h4">ZooKeeper Commands: The Four Letter Words</h3>
<p>ZooKeeper responds to a small set of commands. Each command is
composed of four letters. You issue the commands to ZooKeeper via telnet
or nc, at the client port.</p>
<p>Three of the more interesting commands: "stat" gives some
general information about the server and connected clients,
while "srvr" and "cons" give extended details on server and
connections respectively.</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>conf</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> Print
details about serving configuration.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>cons</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> List
full connection/session details for all clients connected
to this server. Includes information on numbers of packets
received/sent, session id, operation latencies, last
operation performed, etc...</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>crst</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> Reset
connection/session statistics for all connections.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>dump</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Lists the outstanding sessions and ephemeral nodes. This
only works on the leader.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>envi</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Print details about serving environment</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>ruok</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Tests if server is running in a non-error state. The server
will respond with imok if it is running. Otherwise it will not
respond at all.</p>
<p>A response of "imok" does not necessarily indicate that the
server has joined the quorum, just that the server process is active
and bound to the specified client port. Use "stat" for details on
state wrt quorum and client connection information.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>srst</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Reset server statistics.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>srvr</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> Lists
full details for the server.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>stat</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>Lists brief details for the server and connected
clients.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>wchs</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> Lists
brief information on watches for the server.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>wchc</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> Lists
detailed information on watches for the server, by
session. This outputs a list of sessions(connections)
with associated watches (paths). Note, depending on the
number of watches this operation may be expensive (ie
impact server performance), use it carefully.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>wchp</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.3.0:</strong> Lists
detailed information on watches for the server, by path.
This outputs a list of paths (znodes) with associated
sessions. Note, depending on the number of watches this
operation may be expensive (ie impact server performance),
use it carefully.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>mntr</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<strong>New in 3.4.0:</strong> Outputs a list
of variables that could be used for monitoring the health of the cluster.</p>
<pre class="code">$ echo mntr | nc localhost 2185
zk_version 3.4.0
zk_avg_latency 0
zk_max_latency 0
zk_min_latency 0
zk_packets_received 70
zk_packets_sent 69
zk_outstanding_requests 0
zk_server_state leader
zk_znode_count 4
zk_watch_count 0
zk_ephemerals_count 0
zk_approximate_data_size 27
zk_followers 4 - only exposed by the Leader
zk_synced_followers 4 - only exposed by the Leader
zk_pending_syncs 0 - only exposed by the Leader
zk_open_file_descriptor_count 23 - only available on Unix platforms
zk_max_file_descriptor_count 1024 - only available on Unix platforms
zk_fsync_threshold_exceed_count 0
</pre>
<p>The output is compatible with java properties format and the content
may change over time (new keys added). Your scripts should expect changes.</p>
<p>ATTENTION: Some of the keys are platform specific and some of the keys are only exported by the Leader. </p>
<p>The output contains multiple lines with the following format:</p>
<pre class="code">key \t value</pre>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Here's an example of the <strong>ruok</strong>
command:</p>
<pre class="code">$ echo ruok | nc 127.0.0.1 5111
imok
</pre>
<a name="sc_dataFileManagement"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Data File Management</h3>
<p>ZooKeeper stores its data in a data directory and its transaction
log in a transaction log directory. By default these two directories are
the same. The server can (and should) be configured to store the
transaction log files in a separate directory than the data files.
Throughput increases and latency decreases when transaction logs reside
on a dedicated log devices.</p>
<a name="The+Data+Directory"></a>
<h4>The Data Directory</h4>
<p>This directory has two files in it:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<span class="codefrag filename">myid</span> - contains a single integer in
human readable ASCII text that represents the server id.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<span class="codefrag filename">snapshot.&lt;zxid&gt;</span> - holds the fuzzy
snapshot of a data tree.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Each ZooKeeper server has a unique id. This id is used in two
places: the <span class="codefrag filename">myid</span> file and the configuration file.
The <span class="codefrag filename">myid</span> file identifies the server that
corresponds to the given data directory. The configuration file lists
the contact information for each server identified by its server id.
When a ZooKeeper server instance starts, it reads its id from the
<span class="codefrag filename">myid</span> file and then, using that id, reads from the
configuration file, looking up the port on which it should
listen.</p>
<p>The <span class="codefrag filename">snapshot</span> files stored in the data
directory are fuzzy snapshots in the sense that during the time the
ZooKeeper server is taking the snapshot, updates are occurring to the
data tree. The suffix of the <span class="codefrag filename">snapshot</span> file names
is the <em>zxid</em>, the ZooKeeper transaction id, of the
last committed transaction at the start of the snapshot. Thus, the
snapshot includes a subset of the updates to the data tree that
occurred while the snapshot was in process. The snapshot, then, may
not correspond to any data tree that actually existed, and for this
reason we refer to it as a fuzzy snapshot. Still, ZooKeeper can
recover using this snapshot because it takes advantage of the
idempotent nature of its updates. By replaying the transaction log
against fuzzy snapshots ZooKeeper gets the state of the system at the
end of the log.</p>
<a name="The+Log+Directory"></a>
<h4>The Log Directory</h4>
<p>The Log Directory contains the ZooKeeper transaction logs.
Before any update takes place, ZooKeeper ensures that the transaction
that represents the update is written to non-volatile storage. A new
log file is started when the number of transactions written to the
current log file reaches a (variable) threshold. The threshold is
computed using the same parameter which influences the frequency of
snapshotting (see snapCount above). The log file's suffix is the first
zxid written to that log.</p>
<a name="sc_filemanagement"></a>
<h4>File Management</h4>
<p>The format of snapshot and log files does not change between
standalone ZooKeeper servers and different configurations of
replicated ZooKeeper servers. Therefore, you can pull these files from
a running replicated ZooKeeper server to a development machine with a
stand-alone ZooKeeper server for trouble shooting.</p>
<p>Using older log and snapshot files, you can look at the previous
state of ZooKeeper servers and even restore that state. The
LogFormatter class allows an administrator to look at the transactions
in a log.</p>
<p>The ZooKeeper server creates snapshot and log files, but
never deletes them. The retention policy of the data and log
files is implemented outside of the ZooKeeper server. The
server itself only needs the latest complete fuzzy snapshot, all log
files following it, and the last log file preceding it. The latter
requirement is necessary to include updates which happened after this
snapshot was started but went into the existing log file at that time.
This is possible because snapshotting and rolling over of logs
proceed somewhat independently in ZooKeeper. See the
<a href="#sc_maintenance">maintenance</a> section in
this document for more details on setting a retention policy
and maintenance of ZooKeeper storage.
</p>
<div class="note">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">
<p>The data stored in these files is not encrypted. In the case of
storing sensitive data in ZooKeeper, necessary measures need to be
taken to prevent unauthorized access. Such measures are external to
ZooKeeper (e.g., control access to the files) and depend on the
individual settings in which it is being deployed. </p>
</div>
</div>
<a name="Recovery+-+TxnLogToolkit"></a>
<h4>Recovery - TxnLogToolkit</h4>
<p>TxnLogToolkit is a command line tool shipped with ZooKeeper which
is capable of recovering transaction log entries with broken CRC.</p>
<p>Running it without any command line parameters or with the "-h,--help"
argument, it outputs the following help page:</p>
<pre class="code">
$ bin/zkTxnLogToolkit.sh
usage: TxnLogToolkit [-dhrv] txn_log_file_name
-d,--dump Dump mode. Dump all entries of the log file. (this is the default)
-h,--help Print help message
-r,--recover Recovery mode. Re-calculate CRC for broken entries.
-v,--verbose Be verbose in recovery mode: print all entries, not just fixed ones.
-y,--yes Non-interactive mode: repair all CRC errors without asking
</pre>
<p>The default behaviour is safe: it dumps the entries of the given
transaction log file to the screen: (same as using '-d,--dump' parameter)</p>
<pre class="code">
$ bin/zkTxnLogToolkit.sh log.100000001
ZooKeeper Transactional Log File with dbid 0 txnlog format version 2
4/5/18 2:15:58 PM CEST session 0x16295bafcc40000 cxid 0x0 zxid 0x100000001 createSession 30000
<strong>CRC ERROR - 4/5/18 2:16:05 PM CEST session 0x16295bafcc40000 cxid 0x1 zxid 0x100000002 closeSession null</strong>
4/5/18 2:16:05 PM CEST session 0x16295bafcc40000 cxid 0x1 zxid 0x100000002 closeSession null
4/5/18 2:16:12 PM CEST session 0x26295bafcc90000 cxid 0x0 zxid 0x100000003 createSession 30000
4/5/18 2:17:34 PM CEST session 0x26295bafcc90000 cxid 0x0 zxid 0x200000001 closeSession null
4/5/18 2:17:34 PM CEST session 0x16295bd23720000 cxid 0x0 zxid 0x200000002 createSession 30000
4/5/18 2:18:02 PM CEST session 0x16295bd23720000 cxid 0x2 zxid 0x200000003 create '/andor,#626262,v{s{31,s{'world,'anyone}}},F,1
EOF reached after 6 txns.
</pre>
<p>There's a CRC error in the 2nd entry of the above transaction log file. In <strong>dump</strong>
mode, the toolkit only prints this information to the screen without touching the original file. In
<strong>recovery</strong> mode (-r,--recover flag) the original file still remains
untouched and all transactions will be copied over to a new txn log file with ".fixed" suffix. It recalculates
CRC values and copies the calculated value, if it doesn't match the original txn entry.
By default, the tool works interactively: it asks for confirmation whenever CRC error encountered.</p>
<pre class="code">
$ bin/zkTxnLogToolkit.sh -r log.100000001
ZooKeeper Transactional Log File with dbid 0 txnlog format version 2
CRC ERROR - 4/5/18 2:16:05 PM CEST session 0x16295bafcc40000 cxid 0x1 zxid 0x100000002 closeSession null
Would you like to fix it (Yes/No/Abort) ?
</pre>
<p>Answering <strong>Yes</strong> means the newly calculated CRC value will be outputted
to the new file. <strong>No</strong> means that the original CRC value will be copied over.
<strong>Abort</strong> will abort the entire operation and exits.
(In this case the ".fixed" will not be deleted and left in a half-complete state: contains only entries which
have already been processed or only the header if the operation was aborted at the first entry.)</p>
<pre class="code">
$ bin/zkTxnLogToolkit.sh -r log.100000001
ZooKeeper Transactional Log File with dbid 0 txnlog format version 2
CRC ERROR - 4/5/18 2:16:05 PM CEST session 0x16295bafcc40000 cxid 0x1 zxid 0x100000002 closeSession null
Would you like to fix it (Yes/No/Abort) ? y
EOF reached after 6 txns.
Recovery file log.100000001.fixed has been written with 1 fixed CRC error(s)
</pre>
<p>The default behaviour of recovery is to be silent: only entries with CRC error get printed to the screen.
One can turn on verbose mode with the -v,--verbose parameter to see all records.
Interactive mode can be turned off with the -y,--yes parameter. In this case all CRC errors will be fixed
in the new transaction file.</p>
<a name="sc_commonProblems"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Things to Avoid</h3>
<p>Here are some common problems you can avoid by configuring
ZooKeeper correctly:</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<term>inconsistent lists of servers</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>The list of ZooKeeper servers used by the clients must match
the list of ZooKeeper servers that each ZooKeeper server has.
Things work okay if the client list is a subset of the real list,
but things will really act strange if clients have a list of
ZooKeeper servers that are in different ZooKeeper clusters. Also,
the server lists in each Zookeeper server configuration file
should be consistent with one another.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>incorrect placement of transaction log</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>The most performance critical part of ZooKeeper is the
transaction log. ZooKeeper syncs transactions to media before it
returns a response. A dedicated transaction log device is key to
consistent good performance. Putting the log on a busy device will
adversely effect performance. If you only have one storage device,
put trace files on NFS and increase the snapshotCount; it doesn't
eliminate the problem, but it should mitigate it.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>incorrect Java heap size</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>You should take special care to set your Java max heap size
correctly. In particular, you should not create a situation in
which ZooKeeper swaps to disk. The disk is death to ZooKeeper.
Everything is ordered, so if processing one request swaps the
disk, all other queued requests will probably do the same. the
disk. DON'T SWAP.</p>
<p>Be conservative in your estimates: if you have 4G of RAM, do
not set the Java max heap size to 6G or even 4G. For example, it
is more likely you would use a 3G heap for a 4G machine, as the
operating system and the cache also need memory. The best and only
recommend practice for estimating the heap size your system needs
is to run load tests, and then make sure you are well below the
usage limit that would cause the system to swap.</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<term>Publicly accessible deployment</term>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
A ZooKeeper ensemble is expected to operate in a trusted computing environment.
It is thus recommended to deploy ZooKeeper behind a firewall.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="sc_bestPractices"></a>
<h3 class="h4">Best Practices</h3>
<p>For best results, take note of the following list of good
Zookeeper practices:</p>
<p>For multi-tennant installations see the <a href="zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions">section</a>
detailing ZooKeeper "chroot" support, this can be very useful
when deploying many applications/services interfacing to a
single ZooKeeper cluster.</p>
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