[rabbitmq-discuss] Regarding Federation Plugin Configuration

[Jain, Punit]

Thanks Simon for prompt response and for the link. I verified the configuration according to my requirements, but messages are not being backed-up in upstream queue. Properties like expires and message_ttl are set to default. I couldn't figure out any plausible reason for this. Could it be related to exchange/queue publishing properties on upstream broker?

Thanks,
Punit

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon MacMullen [mailto:simon at rabbitmq.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 3:49 PM
To: Discussions about RabbitMQ
Cc: Jain, Punit
Subject: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] Regarding Federation Plugin Configuration

On 10/05/13 09:19, Jain, Punit wrote:
> I have configured two brokers in federated mode, and both are running 
> on version 2.8.2(I know it's outdated, but for some reasons I have to 
> stick with it). I have configured both in bidirectional mode. You can 
> see the configuration for one broker below. I am able to receive 
> messages from upstream broker, but when connection between brokers is 
> lost or if I close the connection deliberately, the messages are not persisted, i.e.
> the messages sent to upstream broker during that time span are lost, 
> and they are not received after reestablishing the connection. How can 
> I ensure that the messages are persisted on upstream exchange/queue 
> while connection to federated broker is down or not established? Or is 
> it the expected behavior? I will really appreciate if you can assist 
> me in configuring it properly or provide some workaround.

That's not expected behaviour (unless you set the connection's 'expires' 
and/or 'message_ttl' properties, in which case you get the behaviour you asked for).

Look at the upstream broker in mgmt / rabbitmqctl. It should contain queues with names like "federation: (exchange) -> (downstream)". 
Messages should back up in these queues while links are down. Do they?

> I tried to find some documentation on federation plugin configuration 
> for version 2.8.2, but I couldn't find anything useful. If you have 
> some link or document for federation plugin configuration for version 
> 2.8.2 or so, please paste it, I will really appreciate it.

http://previous.rabbitmq.com/v2_8_x/federation.html

Technically this is the documentation for 2.8.7, but that's only some bug fixes away from 2.8.2.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal