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MaxScale Notification Service and Feedback Support
Massimiliano Pinto
Last Updated: 10th March 2015
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Document History
| Date | Change | Who |
| 10th March 2015 | Initial version | Massimiliano Pinto |
Overview
The purpose of Notification Service in MaxScale is for a customer registered for the service to receive update notices, security bulletins, fixes and workarounds that are tailored to the database server configuration.
MaxScale Setup
MaxScale may collect the installed plugins and send the information's nightly, between 2:00 AM and 4:59 AM.
It tries to send data and if there is any failure (timeout, server is down, etc), the next retry is in 1800 seconds (30 minutes)
This feature is not enabled by default: MaxScale must be configured in [feedback] section:
[feedback]
feedback_enable=1
feedback_url=https://enterprise.mariadb.com/feedback/post
feedback_user_info=x-y-z-w
The activation code that will be provided by MariaDB corp upon request by the customer and it should be put in feedback_user_info.
Example: feedback_user_info=0467009f-b04d-45b1-a77b-b6b2ec9c6cf4
MaxScale generates the feedback report containing following information:
-The activation code used to enable feedback
- MaxScale Version
- An identifier of the MaxScale installation, i.e. the HEX encoding of SHA1 digest of the first network interface MAC address
- Operating System (i.e Linux)
- Operating Suystem Distribution (i.e. CentOS release 6.5 (Final))
- All the modules in use in MaxScale and their API and version
- MaxScale server UNIX_TIME at generation time
MaxScale shall send the generated feedback report to a feedback server specified in feedback_url
Manual Operation
If it’s not possible to send data due to firewall or security settings the report could be generated manually (feedback_user_info is required) via MaxAdmin
MaxScale>show feedbackreport
Report could be saved to report.txt file:
maxadmin -uxxx -pyyy show feedbackreport > ./report.txt
curl -F data=@./report.txt https://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/post
Report Example:
FEEDBACK_SERVER_UID 6B5C44AEA73137D049B02E6D1C7629EF431A350F
FEEDBACK_USER_INFO 0467009f-b04d-45b1-a77b-b6b2ec9c6cf4
VERSION 1.0.6-unstable
NOW 1425914890
PRODUCT maxscale
Uname_sysname Linux
Uname_distribution CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
module_maxscaled_type Protocol
module_maxscaled_version V1.0.0
module_maxscaled_api 1.0.0
module_maxscaled_releasestatus GA
module_telnetd_type Protocol
module_telnetd_version V1.0.1
module_telnetd_api 1.0.0
module_telnetd_releasestatus GA