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17.4.5. ndb_config — Extract MySQL Cluster Configuration Information

This tool extracts configuration information for data nodes, SQL nodes, and API nodes from a cluster management node (and possibly its config.ini file).

The following table includes command options specific to the MySQL Cluster program ndb_config. Additional descriptions follow the table. For options common to all MySQL Cluster programs, see Section 17.4.21, “Options Common to MySQL Cluster Programs”.

Table 17.12. ndbd Command Line Options

Format Description Introduction Deprecated Removed
--connections Print connection information only      
--fields=string Field separator      
--host=name Specify host      
--mycnf Read configuration data from my.cnf file      
--nodeid Get configuration of node with this ID      
--nodes Print node information only      
  Short form for --ndb-connectstring 5.0.33    
--config-file=path Set the path to config.ini file      
--query=string One or more query options (attributes)      
--rows=string Row separator      
--type=name Specify node type      

  • --usage, --help, or -?

    Command-Line Format --help

    Causes ndb_config to print a list of available options, and then exit.

  • --version, -V

    Command-Line Format -V

    Causes ndb_config to print a version information string, and then exit.

  • --ndb-connectstring=connect_string

    Command-Line Format --ndb-connectstring=name
      Permitted Values
    Type string
    Default localhost:1186

    Specifies the connectstring to use in connecting to the management server. The format for the connectstring is the same as described in Section 17.3.2.2, “The MySQL Cluster Connectstring”, and defaults to localhost:1186.

    The use of -c as a short version for this option is supported for ndb_config beginning with MySQL 5.0.29.

  • --config-file=path-to-file

    Gives the path to the management server's configuration file (config.ini). This may be a relative or absolute path. If the management node resides on a different host from the one on which ndb_config is invoked, then an absolute path must be used.

  • --query=query-options, -q query-options

    Command-Line Format --query=string
      Permitted Values
    Type string
    Default

    This is a comma-delimited list of query options — that is, a list of one or more node attributes to be returned. These include id (node ID), type (node type — that is, ndbd, mysqld, or ndb_mgmd), and any configuration parameters whose values are to be obtained.

    For example, --query=id,type,indexmemory,datamemory would return the node ID, node type, DataMemory, and IndexMemory for each node.

    Note

    If a given parameter is not applicable to a certain type of node, than an empty string is returned for the corresponding value. See the examples later in this section for more information.

  • --host=hostname

    Command-Line Format --host=name
      Permitted Values
    Type string
    Default

    Specifies the host name of the node for which configuration information is to be obtained.

  • --id=node_id, --nodeid=node_id

    Used to specify the node ID of the node for which configuration information is to be obtained.

  • --nodes

    Command-Line Format --nodes
      Permitted Values
    Type boolean
    Default FALSE

    (Tells ndb_config to print information from parameters defined in [ndbd] sections only. Currently, using this option has no affect, since these are the only values checked, but it may become possible in future to query parameters set in [tcp] and other sections of cluster configuration files.)

  • --type=node_type

    Command-Line Format --type=name
      Permitted Values
    Type enumeration
    Default
    Valid Values ndbd, mysqld, ndb_mgmd

    Filters results so that only configuration values applying to nodes of the specified node_type (ndbd, mysqld, or ndb_mgmd) are returned.

  • --fields=delimiter, -f delimiter

    Command-Line Format --fields=string
      Permitted Values
    Type string
    Default

    Specifies a delimiter string used to separate the fields in the result. The default is “,” (the comma character).

    Note

    If the delimiter contains spaces or escapes (such as \n for the linefeed character), then it must be quoted.

  • --rows=separator, -r separator

    Command-Line Format --rows=string
      Permitted Values
    Type string
    Default

    Specifies a separator string used to separate the rows in the result. The default is a space character.

    Note

    If the separator contains spaces or escapes (such as \n for the linefeed character), then it must be quoted.

Examples:

  1. To obtain the node ID and type of each node in the cluster: 

    shell> ./ndb_config --query=id,type --fields=':' --rows='\n'
1:ndbd
2:ndbd
3:ndbd
4:ndbd
5:ndb_mgmd
6:mysqld
7:mysqld
8:mysqld
9:mysqld

    In this example, we used the --fields options to separate the ID and type of each node with a colon character (:), and the --rows options to place the values for each node on a new line in the output.

  2. To produce a connectstring that can be used by data, SQL, and API nodes to connect to the management server: 

    shell> ./ndb_config --config-file=usr/local/mysql/cluster-data/config.ini --query=hostname,portnumber --fields=: --rows=, --type=ndb_mgmd
192.168.0.179:1186

  3. This invocation of ndb_config checks only data nodes (using the --type option), and shows the values for each node's ID and host name, and its DataMemory, IndexMemory, and DataDir parameters: 

    shell> ./ndb_config --type=ndbd --query=id,host,datamemory,indexmemory,datadir -f ' : ' -r '\n'
1 : 192.168.0.193 : 83886080 : 18874368 : /usr/local/mysql/cluster-data
2 : 192.168.0.112 : 83886080 : 18874368 : /usr/local/mysql/cluster-data
3 : 192.168.0.176 : 83886080 : 18874368 : /usr/local/mysql/cluster-data
4 : 192.168.0.119 : 83886080 : 18874368 : /usr/local/mysql/cluster-data

    In this example, we used the short options -f and -r for setting the field delimiter and row separator, respectively.

  4. To exclude results from any host except one in particular, use the --host option: 

    shell> ./ndb_config --host=192.168.0.176 -f : -r '\n' -q id,type
3:ndbd
5:ndb_mgmd

    In this example, we also used the short form -q to determine the attributes to be queried.

    Similarly, you can limit results to a node with a specific ID using the --id or --nodeid option.