[rabbitmq-discuss] General questions about HA, Stability/Reliability and Broker Administration

[Miguel Morales]

Just to comment, it took me about an hour to set up (the latest at the
time) rabbitmq on CentOS 5.  I wrote a blog post about it here, maybe
it'll be helpful:
http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/2009/10/rabbitmq-erlang-client-yay.html

You can ignore the whole new project part, but installing rabbitmq
itself is fairly straightforward.
For management, there's Alice:
http://willcodeforfoo.com/2009/07/13/announcing-alice/

Apparently, with the new persister, rabbitmq can save messages to disk
before any crashes.  You can read more about it here:
http://www.rabbitmq.com/faq.html

However, I personally use a backup message storing system (PostgreSQL)
and redeliver undelivered messages (my queues are not durable.)  This
however makes for extra code.

Others might provide more insight, but that's my 2 cents from my
particular usage case.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dave Greggory <davegreggory at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> This is one of the better mailing lists I've been, it seems to have a high
> signal to noise ratio here.
>
>
> I've presenting RabbitMQ as a solution to the powers that be on Monday and I
> would like to know about your experiences with using RabbitMQ in high volume
> environment needing guaranteed delivery.
>
> 1. Erlang VM/RabbitMQ management: It was a breeze for me to get RabbitMQ running
> on Ubuntu (<10m) but our  operations folks had a lot of trouble getting
> Erlang/RabbitMQ installed  on CentOs (>5hrs). I haven't run into any issues in
> our QA environment yet, but it's not very high volume. What type of issues
> should I expect in a production environment with regards to managing the Erlang
> VM and RabbitMQ in general? I'm looking at it from the perspective of having a
> game-plan for what to do when things go wrong and to have runbooks for
> operations people to follow for solving common and known problems that come up
> in day-to-day management of Erlang VM and RabbitMQ.
> 2. HA/Failover: I've seen the Pacemaker guide but I'm a little hesitant to set
> that up as we have little experience in house with Pacemaker/Corosync/DRBD. How
> many people use it for HA/Failover in production systems and how happy are you
> with it? Does it support failing over if the hard drive on one of the nodes die
> instead something a little more simple like a node running out of memory or
> hanging?
> 3. Out of the box live failover: I've read in a few places on site that this is
> coming in a future release? Do we have an idea of how far off this is (3 months?
> 6 months? or too far off to speculate?)
> 4. What tools do you use for broker administration in production environments?
> Does anyone use BQL and have a good experience running it without any issues in
> a high volume/guaranteed delivery environment? It's not yet officially released
> so I don't want to run it in a production environment. If not, how do you
> manage? Tools built in-house? Is it even possible to do that without resorting
> to programming Erlang?
> 5. How do you monitor RabbitMQ nodes and what do you monitor for (I'm thinking
> of monitoring various queue sizes)? The Zenoss AMQP Plugin looks interesting to
> us, but I have been informed that it's not playing nice with latest Zenoss.
>
>
> Any other thoughts that come to mind... please feel free to share.
> Thanks much,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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