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It's now possible to use both a Unix domain socket and host/port when connecting with MaxAdmin to MaxScale. By default MaxAdmin will attempt to use the default Unix domain socket, but if host and/or port has been specified, then an inet socket will be used. maxscaled will authenticate the connection attempt differently depending on whether a Unix domain socket is used or not. If a Unix domain socket is used, then the Linux user id will be used for the authorization, otherwise the 1.4.3 username/password handshake will be performed. adminusers has now been extended so that there is one set of functions for local users (connecting locally over a Unix socket) and one set of functions for remote users (connecting locally or remotely over an Inet socket). The local users are stored in the new .../maxscale-users and the remote users in .../passwd. That is, the old users of a 1.4 installation will work as such in 2.0. One difference is that there will be *no* default remote user. That is, remote users will always have to be added manually using a local user. The implementation is shared; the local and remote alternatives use common functions to which the hashtable and filename to be used are forwarded. The commands "[add|remove] user" behave now exactly like they did in 1.4.3, and also all existing users work out of the box. In addition there is now the commands "[enable|disable] account" using which Linux accounts can be enabled for MaxAdmin usage.
# MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the roles of the various servers within the backend cluster of databases. MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to support different protocols and routing decisions. MaxScale is implemented in C and makes extensive use of the asynchronous I/O capabilities of the Linux operating system. The epoll system is used to provide the event driven framework for the input and output via sockets. The protocols are implemented as external shared object modules which can be loaded at runtime. These modules support a fixed interface, communicating the entries points via a structure consisting of a set of function pointers. This structure is called the "module object". The code that routes the queries to the database servers is also loaded as external shared objects and are referred to as routing modules. An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas, issues and communicate with the MaxScale community. Email: maxscale@googlegroups.com Forum: http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maxscale Bugs can be reported in the MariaDB Corporation bugs database: https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS/issues # Documentation For information about installing and using MaxScale, please refer to the documentation. It is in Markdown format. You can point your browser to the MaxScale project at GitHub. Look inside the "Documentation" directory, where you will find a file named Documentation-Contents.md. Click on that, and GitHub will show the documentation in its intended display format. The contents page lists the available documents and has links to them. If you do not want to rely on the internet, then clone the project from GitHub and point your browser to the Documentation-Contents.md file in your local file system and proceed as above.