To add active witnesses to an Existing Deployment, use tpm to update the configuration, adding the list of active witnesses and the list of all members within the updated dataservice configuration.

Active Witness hosts must have been prepared using the notes provided in Appendix B, Prerequisites. Active witnesses must be ble to resolve the hostnames of the other managers and hosts in the dataservice. Installation will fail if prerequisities and host availability and stability cannot be confirmed.

Update the configuration using tpm, adding the new host to the list of members

If using the staging method of deployment, you can use +=, which appends the host to the existing deployment as shown in the example below. Click the link to switch between staging and ini type deployment examples.

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shell> tpm query staging
tungsten@db1:/opt/continuent/software/tungsten-clustering-6.1.25-6

shell> echo The staging USER is `tpm query staging| cut -d: -f1 | cut -d@ -f1`
The staging USER is tungsten

shell> echo The staging HOST is `tpm query staging| cut -d: -f1 | cut -d@ -f2`
The staging HOST is db1

shell> echo The staging DIRECTORY is `tpm query staging| cut -d: -f2`
The staging DIRECTORY is /opt/continuent/software/tungsten-clustering-6.1.25-6

shell> ssh {STAGING_USER}@{STAGING_HOST}
shell> cd {STAGING_DIRECTORY}

shell> ./tools/tpm configure alpha \
    --members+=host4 \
    --witnesses=host4 \
    --enable-active-witnesses=true \

Run the tpm command to update the software with the Staging-based configuration:

shell> ./tools/tpm update --no-connectors

For information about making updates when using a Staging-method deployment, please see Section 10.3.7, “Configuration Changes from a Staging Directory”.

shell> vi /etc/tungsten/tungsten.ini

[alpha]
...
members=host1,host2,host3,host4
witnesses=host4
enable-active-witnesses=true

Run the tpm command to update the software with the INI-based configuration:

shell> tpm query staging
tungsten@db1:/opt/continuent/software/tungsten-clustering-6.1.25-6

shell> echo The staging DIRECTORY is `tpm query staging| cut -d: -f2`
The staging DIRECTORY is /opt/continuent/software/tungsten-clustering-6.1.25-6

shell> cd {STAGING_DIRECTORY}

shell> ./tools/tpm update --no-connectors

For information about making updates when using an INI file, please see Section 10.4.4, “Configuration Changes with an INI file”.

Using the --no-connectors option updates the current deployment without restarting the existing connectors.

Once installation has completed successfully, and the manager service has started on each configured active witness, the status can be determined using ls within cctrl:

[LOGICAL] /alpha > ls                  

COORDINATOR[host1:AUTOMATIC:ONLINE]

ROUTERS:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|connector@host1[20446](ONLINE, created=0, active=0)                         |
|connector@host2[21698](ONLINE, created=0, active=0)                         |
|connector@host3[30354](ONLINE, created=0, active=0)                         |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

DATASOURCES:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|host1(slave:ONLINE, progress=8946, latency=0.000)                           |
|STATUS [OK] [2018/12/05 04:27:47 PM GMT]                                    |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  MANAGER(state=ONLINE)                                                     |
|  REPLICATOR(role=slave, master=host3, state=ONLINE)                        |
|  DATASERVER(state=ONLINE)                                                  |
|  CONNECTIONS(created=0, active=0)                                          |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|host2(slave:ONLINE, progress=8946, latency=0.334)                           |
|STATUS [OK] [2018/12/05 04:06:59 PM GMT]                                    |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  MANAGER(state=ONLINE)                                                     |
|  REPLICATOR(role=slave, master=host3, state=ONLINE)                        |
|  DATASERVER(state=ONLINE)                                                  |
|  CONNECTIONS(created=0, active=0)                                          |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|host3(master:ONLINE, progress=8946, THL latency=0.331)                      |
|STATUS [OK] [2018/11/20 05:39:14 PM GMT]                                    |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  MANAGER(state=ONLINE)                                                     |
|  REPLICATOR(role=master, state=ONLINE)                                     |
|  DATASERVER(state=ONLINE)                                                  |
|  CONNECTIONS(created=0, active=0)                                          |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+


WITNESSES:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|host4(witness:ONLINE)                                                       |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  MANAGER(state=ONLINE)                                                     |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Validation of the cluster with the new witnesses can be verified by using the cluster validate command within cctrl.