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There were a total of five SSH connections opened at the start of each test. Only two of these are currently required: the SSL certificate directory check and the actual command that restarts MaxScale. Two of the three remaining commands, stopping of MaxScale and copying of the configuration, can be made conditional or combined into other commands. The stopping of MaxScale is done to prevent it from interfering with the cluster setup process. As MaxScale does nothing if nothing is wrong, it is safe to make the restart conditional so that it is done only when a problem in the cluster setup is detected. The final SSH command, the MaxScale health check via maxadmin, can be removed as it is redundant: the daemonization already covers this by exiting only after MaxScale is ready.
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.
For a detailed overview of what MaxScale can do, read the MaxScale page on the MariaDB website.
An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas, issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
We're also on the #maria and #maxscale channels on FreeNode.
Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the MariaDB Jira.
Getting Started
Read the Documentation Overview for a list of all MaxScale documents.
Documentation
The official documentation can be found on the MariaDB Knowledge Base.
A MaxScale Troubleshooting Guide can be found on the MariaDB Knowledgebase. It answers common questions encountered when installing and using MaxScale.
The documentation can also be found in the Documentation directory of the source tree.
Contributing Code
Read the Contributing page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do them.