Beat me to it ;) Only caveat is I wouldn't use /tmp for this, since if you're running tmpwatch the 'myid' file will get removed unexpectedly since it doesn't seem to be changed at it. That was fun to find :)
We use /var/zookeeper for our storage. Thanks, Chris On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jason Huang <jason.hu...@icare.com> wrote: > Thanks Eric - this helps quite a bit. > > I will play around with it. > > Jason > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Eric Sites <eric.si...@threattrack.com > >wrote: > > > Jason, > > > > You need to modify the ZooKeeper config and add the following: > > > > dataDir=/tmp/zookeeper > > > > initLimit=50 > > syncLimit=2 > > > > server.1=kafka001.domain.com:2888:3888 > > server.2=kafka002.domain.com:2888:3888 > > > > server.3=kafka003.domain.com:2888:3888 > > > > > > > > # Make sure you open those 2 points on each of the servers for your > > firewall > > > > The .1 after the server is the id of the zookeeper which should be stored > > in a file > > Named /tmp/zookeeper/myid > > > > Echo "1" > /tmp/zookeeper/myid` > > > > > > Cheers, > > Eric Sites > > > > > > On 4/23/13 9:50 AM, "Jason Huang" <jason.hu...@icare.com> wrote: > > > > >Thanks Chris and Neha. > > > > > >Chris - I've been through the link you mentioned before. However, that > > >appears to be using one instance of zookeeper, which makes whichever > > >server > > >that runs zookeeper as the single point of failure? > > > > > >Jason > > > > > >On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Chris Curtin > > ><curtin.ch...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > >> I following these instructions to get the first 'play' cluster going: > > >> > > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/KAFKA/kafka-08-quick-start.html > > >> > > >> Instead of running the 3 brokers on the same machine, I ran on on each > > >> machine. > > >> > > >> Note that you will need to do a little bit of zookeeper setup to get a > > >> cluster running, I think the main one was setting the 'myid' in the > > >> zookeeper install directory properly on each machine (namely give each > > >> machine a unique # in that file). > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> > > >> Chris > > >> > > >> > > >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Neha Narkhede < > neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >> >wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hi Jason, > > >> > > > >> > We are in the process of updating the documentation. Hoping to > finish > > >> > it by this week. Stay tuned. > > >> > > > >> > Thanks, > > >> > Neha > > >> > > > >> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jason Huang <jason.hu...@icare.com > > > > >> > wrote: > > >> > > Hello, > > >> > > > > >> > > We've been playing around with kafka 0.8 for a few months now and > > >> decided > > >> > > to install kafka on a small cluster for further testing. I tried > to > > >> > search > > >> > > online but couldn't find any setup documentation for a kafka 0.8 > > >> cluster. > > >> > > > > >> > > Does anyone know if such documents exist? If they don't exist, > what > > >> could > > >> > > be our best guide to start with? > > >> > > > > >> > > thanks! > > >> > > > > >> > > Jason > > >> > > > >> > > > > >
