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Administrator's Guide
Managing the Rings
You need to build the storage rings on the proxy server node, and
distribute them to all the servers in the cluster. Storage rings contain
information about all the Swift storage partitions and how they are
distributed between the different nodes and disks. For more information
see overview_ring.
Removing a device from the ring:
swift-ring-builder <builder-file> remove <ip_address>/<device_name>Removing a server from the ring:
swift-ring-builder <builder-file> remove <ip_address>Adding devices to the ring:
See ring-preparing
See what devices for a server are in the ring:
swift-ring-builder <builder-file> search <ip_address>Once you are done with all changes to the ring, the changes need to be "committed":
swift-ring-builder <builder-file> rebalanceOnce the new rings are built, they should be pushed out to all the servers in the cluster.
Scripting Ring Creation
You can create scripts to create the account and container rings and rebalance. Here's an example script for the Account ring. Use similar commands to create a make-container-ring.sh script on the proxy server node.
Create a script file called make-account-ring.sh on the proxy server node with the following content:
#!/bin/bash cd /etc/swift rm -f account.builder account.ring.gz backups/account.builder backups/account.ring.gz swift-ring-builder account.builder create 18 3 1 swift-ring-builder account.builder add z1-<account-server-1>:6002/sdb1 1 swift-ring-builder account.builder add z2-<account-server-2>:6002/sdb1 1 swift-ring-builder account.builder rebalance
You need to replace the values of <account-server-1>, <account-server-2>, etc. with the IP addresses of the account servers used in your setup. You can have as many account servers as you need. All account servers are assumed to be listening on port 6002, and have a storage device called "sdb1" (this is a directory name created under /drives when we setup the account server). The "z1", "z2", etc. designate zones, and you can choose whether you put devices in the same or different zones.
Make the script file executable and run it to create the account ring file:
chmod +x make-account-ring.sh sudo ./make-account-ring.shCopy the resulting ring file /etc/swift/account.ring.gz to all the account server nodes in your Swift environment, and put them in the /etc/swift directory on these nodes. Make sure that every time you change the account ring configuration, you copy the resulting ring file to all the account nodes.
Handling System Updates
It is recommended that system updates and reboots are done a zone at a time. This allows the update to happen, and for the Swift cluster to stay available and responsive to requests. It is also advisable when updating a zone, let it run for a while before updating the other zones to make sure the update doesn't have any adverse effects.
Handling Drive Failure
In the event that a drive has failed, the first step is to make sure the drive is unmounted. This will make it easier for swift to work around the failure until it has been resolved. If the drive is going to be replaced immediately, then it is just best to replace the drive, format it, remount it, and let replication fill it up.
If the drive can't be replaced immediately, then it is best to leave it unmounted, and remove the drive from the ring. This will allow all the replicas that were on that drive to be replicated elsewhere until the drive is replaced. Once the drive is replaced, it can be re-added to the ring.
Handling Server Failure
If a server is having hardware issues, it is a good idea to make sure the swift services are not running. This will allow Swift to work around the failure while you troubleshoot.
If the server just needs a reboot, or a small amount of work that should only last a couple of hours, then it is probably best to let Swift work around the failure and get the machine fixed and back online. When the machine comes back online, replication will make sure that anything that is missing during the downtime will get updated.
If the server has more serious issues, then it is probably best to remove all of the server's devices from the ring. Once the server has been repaired and is back online, the server's devices can be added back into the ring. It is important that the devices are reformatted before putting them back into the ring as it is likely to be responsible for a different set of partitions than before.
Detecting Failed Drives
It has been our experience that when a drive is about to fail, error messages will spew into /var/log/kern.log. There is a script called swift-drive-audit that can be run via cron to watch for bad drives. If errors are detected, it will unmount the bad drive, so that Swift can work around it. The script takes a configuration file with the following settings:
[drive-audit]
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| log_facility | LOG_LOCAL0 | Syslog log facility |
| log_level | INFO | Log level |
| device_dir | /srv/node | Directory devices are mounted under |
minutes |
60 |
Number of minutes to look back in /var/log/kern.log |
error_limit |
1 |
Number of errors to find before a device is unmounted |
This script has only been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, so if you are using a different distro or OS, some care should be taken before using in production.
Cluster Health
There is a swift-dispersion-report tool for measuring overall cluster health. This is accomplished by checking if a set of deliberately distributed containers and objects are currently in their proper places within the cluster.
For instance, a common deployment has three replicas of each object. The health of that object can be measured by checking if each replica is in its proper place. If only 2 of the 3 is in place the object's heath can be said to be at 66.66%, where 100% would be perfect.
A single object's health, especially an older object, usually reflects the health of that entire partition the object is in. If we make enough objects on a distinct percentage of the partitions in the cluster, we can get a pretty valid estimate of the overall cluster health. In practice, about 1% partition coverage seems to balance well between accuracy and the amount of time it takes to gather results.
The first thing that needs to be done to provide this health value is create a new account solely for this usage. Next, we need to place the containers and objects throughout the system so that they are on distinct partitions. The swift-dispersion-populate tool does this by making up random container and object names until they fall on distinct partitions. Last, and repeatedly for the life of the cluster, we need to run the swift-dispersion-report tool to check the health of each of these containers and objects.
These tools need direct access to the entire cluster and to the ring files (installing them on a proxy server will probably do). Both swift-dispersion-populate and swift-dispersion-report use the same configuration file, /etc/swift/dispersion.conf. Example conf file:
[dispersion]
auth_url = http://saio:11000/auth/v1.0
auth_user = test:tester
auth_key = testingThere are also options for the conf file for specifying the dispersion coverage (defaults to 1%), retries, concurrency, etc. though usually the defaults are fine.
Once the configuration is in place, run swift-dispersion-populate to populate the containers and objects throughout the cluster.
Now that those containers and objects are in place, you can run swift-dispersion-report to get a dispersion report, or the overall health of the cluster. Here is an example of a cluster in perfect health:
$ swift-dispersion-report
Queried 2621 containers for dispersion reporting, 19s, 0 retries
100.00% of container copies found (7863 of 7863)
Sample represents 1.00% of the container partition space
Queried 2619 objects for dispersion reporting, 7s, 0 retries
100.00% of object copies found (7857 of 7857)
Sample represents 1.00% of the object partition spaceNow I'll deliberately double the weight of a device in the object ring (with replication turned off) and rerun the dispersion report to show what impact that has:
$ swift-ring-builder object.builder set_weight d0 200
$ swift-ring-builder object.builder rebalance
...
$ swift-dispersion-report
Queried 2621 containers for dispersion reporting, 8s, 0 retries
100.00% of container copies found (7863 of 7863)
Sample represents 1.00% of the container partition space
Queried 2619 objects for dispersion reporting, 7s, 0 retries
There were 1763 partitions missing one copy.
77.56% of object copies found (6094 of 7857)
Sample represents 1.00% of the object partition spaceYou can see the health of the objects in the cluster has gone down significantly. Of course, I only have four devices in this test environment, in a production environment with many many devices the impact of one device change is much less. Next, I'll run the replicators to get everything put back into place and then rerun the dispersion report:
... start object replicators and monitor logs until they're caught up ...
$ swift-dispersion-report
Queried 2621 containers for dispersion reporting, 17s, 0 retries
100.00% of container copies found (7863 of 7863)
Sample represents 1.00% of the container partition space
Queried 2619 objects for dispersion reporting, 7s, 0 retries
100.00% of object copies found (7857 of 7857)
Sample represents 1.00% of the object partition spaceCluster Telemetry and Monitoring
Various metrics and telemetry can be obtained from the object servers using the recon server middleware and the swift-recon cli. To do so update your object-server.conf to enable the recon middleware by adding a pipeline entry and setting its one option:
[pipeline:main]
pipeline = recon object-server
[filter:recon]
use = egg:swift#recon
recon_cache_path = /var/cache/swiftThe recon_cache_path simply sets the directory where stats for a few items will be stored. Depending on the method of deployment you may need to create this directory manually and ensure that swift has read/write.
If you wish to enable reporting of replication times you can enable recon support in the object-replicator section of the object-server.conf:
[object-replicator]
...
recon_enable = yes
recon_cache_path = /var/cache/swiftFinally if you also wish to track asynchronous pending's you will need to setup a cronjob to run the swift-recon-cron script periodically:
*/5 * * * * swift /usr/bin/swift-recon-cron /etc/swift/object-server.confOnce enabled a GET request for "/recon/<metric>" to the object server will return a json formatted response:
fhines@ubuntu:~$ curl -i http://localhost:6030/recon/async
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 20
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:03:01 GMT
{"async_pending": 0}The following metrics and telemetry are currently exposed:
| Request URI | Description |
|---|---|
| /recon/load | returns 1,5, and 15 minute load average |
| /recon/async | returns count of async pending |
| /recon/mem | returns /proc/meminfo |
| /recon/replication | returns last logged object replication time |
| /recon/mounted | returns ALL currently mounted filesystems |
| /recon/unmounted | returns all unmounted drives if mount_check = True |
| /recon/diskusage | returns disk utilization for storage devices |
| /recon/ringmd5 | returns object/container/account ring md5sums |
| /recon/quarantined | returns # of quarantined objects/accounts/containers |
| /recon/sockstat | returns consumable info from /proc/net/sockstat|6 |
This information can also be queried via the swift-recon command line utility:
fhines@ubuntu:~$ swift-recon -h
===============================================================================
Usage:
usage: swift-recon [-v] [--suppress] [-a] [-r] [-u] [-d] [-l] [--objmd5]
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose Print verbose info
--suppress Suppress most connection related errors
-a, --async Get async stats
-r, --replication Get replication stats
-u, --unmounted Check cluster for unmounted devices
-d, --diskusage Get disk usage stats
-l, --loadstats Get cluster load average stats
-q, --quarantined Get cluster quarantine stats
--objmd5 Get md5sums of object.ring.gz and compare to local
copy
--sockstat Get cluster socket usage stats
--all Perform all checks. Equivalent to -arudlq --objmd5
--socketstat
-z ZONE, --zone=ZONE Only query servers in specified zone
--swiftdir=SWIFTDIR Default = /etc/swiftFor example, to obtain quarantine stats from all hosts in zone "3":
fhines@ubuntu:~$ swift-recon -q --zone 3
===============================================================================
[2011-10-18 19:36:00] Checking quarantine dirs on 1 hosts...
[Quarantined objects] low: 4, high: 4, avg: 4, total: 4
[Quarantined accounts] low: 0, high: 0, avg: 0, total: 0
[Quarantined containers] low: 0, high: 0, avg: 0, total: 0
===============================================================================Debugging Tips and Tools
When a request is made to Swift, it is given a unique transaction id. This id should be in every log line that has to do with that request. This can be useful when looking at all the services that are hit by a single request.
If you need to know where a specific account, container or object is in the cluster, swift-get-nodes will show the location where each replica should be.
If you are looking at an object on the server and need more info, swift-object-info will display the account, container, replica locations and metadata of the object.
If you want to audit the data for an account, swift-account-audit can be used to crawl the account, checking that all containers and objects can be found.
Managing Services
Swift services are generally managed with swift-init. the general usage is
swift-init <service> <command>, where service
is the swift service to manage (for example object, container, account,
proxy) and command is one of:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| start | Start the service |
| stop | Stop the service |
| restart | Restart the service |
| shutdown | Attempt to gracefully shutdown the service |
| reload | Attempt to gracefully restart the service |
A graceful shutdown or reload will finish any current requests before completely stopping the old service. There is also a special case of swift-init all <command>, which will run the command for all swift services.
Object Auditor
On system failures, the XFS file system can sometimes truncate files it's trying to write and produce zero byte files. The object-auditor will catch these problems but in the case of a system crash it would be advisable to run an extra, less rate limited sweep to check for these specific files. You can run this command as follows: swift-object-auditor /path/to/object-server/config/file.conf once -z 1000 "-z" means to only check for zero-byte files at 1000 files per second.
Swift Orphans
Swift Orphans are processes left over after a reload of a Swift server.
For example, when upgrading a proxy server you would probaby finish with a swift-init proxy-server reload or /etc/init.d/swift-proxy reload. This kills the parent proxy server process and leaves the child processes running to finish processing whatever requests they might be handling at the time. It then starts up a new parent proxy server process and its children to handle new incoming requests. This allows zero-downtime upgrades with no impact to existing requests.
The orphaned child processes may take a while to exit, depending on the length of the requests they were handling. However, sometimes an old process can be hung up due to some bug or hardware issue. In these cases, these orphaned processes will hang around forever. swift-orphans can be used to find and kill these orphans.
swift-orphans with no arguments will just list the orphans it finds that were started more than 24 hours ago. You shouldn't really check for orphans until 24 hours after you perform a reload, as some requests can take a long time to process. swift-orphans -k TERM will send the SIG_TERM signal to the orphans processes, or you can kill -TERM the pids yourself if you prefer.
You can run swift-orphans --help for more options.
Swift Oldies
Swift Oldies are processes that have just been around for a long time. There's nothing necessarily wrong with this, but it might indicate a hung process if you regularly upgrade and reload/restart services. You might have so many servers that you don't notice when a reload/restart fails, swift-oldies can help with this.
For example, if you upgraded and reloaded/restarted everything 2 days ago, and you've already cleaned up any orphans with swift-orphans, you can run swift-oldies -a 48 to find any Swift processes still around that were started more than 2 days ago and then investigate them accordingly.