manageODR.py script

You can use the manageODR.py script to create a cluster of on demand routers (ODRs), and to manage routing rules and custom logging.

Location

The manageODR.py script is located in the app_server_root/bin directory. Before running this script, ensure that you have the environment variable WAS_HOME configured to point to the directory of your WebSphere® installation.

Operations

You can perform the following operations with the manageODR.py script:

convertToCluster <node:odr> <cluster>: Convert an existing ODR on node node with name odr to an ODR cluster named <cluster>.
createDynamicCluster <cluster> <nodeGroup>: Create an ODR dynamic cluster named <cluster> on nodes in node group <nodeGroup>.
addToCluster <node:odr> <cluster>: Create a new ODR on node node with name odr and add it to ODR cluster cluster.
insertMultiClusterRoutingRule <odrServerOrCluster> <protocolFamily> <ruleNumber> <condition> <multiClusterAction> <multiClusterSpecification>: Insert an ODR routing rule with an action to load balance or failover between clusters in the same, or different, cells.
insertRedirectRoutingRule <odrServerOrCluster> <ruleNumber> <condition> <redirectURL>: Insert an ODR routing rule with an action to return a redirect to the client. This is only supported for the HTTP protocol family.
insertRejectRoutingRule <odrServerOrCluster> <protocolFamily> <ruleNumber> <condition> <errorCode>: Insert an ODR routing rule with an action to return a specific error code to the client.
removeRoutingRule <odrServerOrCluster> <protocolFamily> <ruleNumber> : Remove the ODR routing rule specified by the protocol family (for example the HTTP protocol family), and rule number.
listRoutingRules <odrServerOrCluster> <protocolFamily>: List the ODR routing rules for the specified protocol family (for example the HTTP protocol family).
insertLocalContentRoutingRule <odrServerOrCluster> <ruleNumber> <condition> <localPath>: Insert an ODR routing rule with an action to serve static HTML content from the local file system of the ODR.
insertCustomLogRule <odrServerOrCluster> <ruleNumber> <condition> <logFileFormat>: Insert a custom log rule into the list at position <ruleNumber>.
RemoveCustomLogRule <odrServerOrCluster> <ruleNumber>: Remove the custom log rule number <ruleNumber>.
listCustomLogRules <odrServerOrCluster>: List the custom log rules associated with an ODR or ODR cluster.

The arguments are:

<node:odr> is the name of the node and ODR (for example, mynode:myodr).
<cluster> is the name of an On Demand Router (ODR) cluster.
<odrServerOrCluster> is either <node:odr> or <cluster>.
<protocolFamily> is either "HTTP" or "SIP".
<ruleNumber> is the number of the rule, from 1 to the total number of rules.
<condition> is the condition (i.e. boolean expression) which must evaluate to true to trigger the associated action.
<multiClusterAction> is one of "Failover", "WLOR" (Weighted Least Outstanding Requests), or "WRR" (Weighted Round-Robin).
<multiClusterSpecification> is a specification of multiple clusters in one of the following formats:
- cluster = <cellname>/<clustername>: to specify a specific cluster.
- server = <cellname>/<nodename>/<servername>: to specify a specific server.
- module= <cellName>/<applicationName>/<editionName>/<moduleName>: to specify all servers to which this module is deployed.
<redirectUR> is the URL to redirect the request to.
<errorCode> is the error return code to return for a reject routing rule.
<logFileFormat> is a specification denoting the file name and format of the log entry.
<localPath> is the directory from which to serve local static content.

The following example shows how to create an HTTP ODR named odr, on node 1:

wsadmin.sh -f createodr.jacl node1 odr odr

The following example shows how to convert an ODR named odr on node node1 to an ODR cluster named ODRCluster:

wsadmin.sh
-f manageODR.py -lang jython convertToCluster node1:odr ODRCluster

The following example shows how to add a custom log rule to put all requests whose service time is longer than 2 seconds in the slow.log custom log, and include the application server to which the request was sent and the service time:

wsadmin.sh
-f manageODR.py -lang jython insertCustomLogRule myNode02:odr1 1 "service.time
> 2000" "slow.log %t %r %Z %T"

The following example shows how to add a custom log rule to put all 503 responses in 503.log. The rule is added at position 2. If there is an existing rule at position 2, the new rule is inserted before the existing rule.

wsadmin.sh
-f manageODR.py -lang jython insertCustomLogRule myNode02:odr1 2 "response.code
= 503" "503.log %t %r %s"

The following example shows how to add a custom log rule at position 1 to log errors that can occur when writing a response to a client in the response.write.error.log:

wsadmin.sh
-f manageODR.py -lang jython insertCustomLogRule node1:odr 1 "response.write.error"
"response.write.error.log %t %r %s"