[erlang-questions] cluster configuration, or dynamic (re)configuration of distributed application nodes

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I guess Mnesia has been originally designed for this purpose?


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are about to investigate dynamic node reconfiguration of
> distributed applications. Did somebody do that already? How does
> kernel application react to application:set_env(kernel, ...)? Or is
> there a more elegant approach? We have a quite dynamic cluster of
> nodes, and we need one application running all the time. We have our
> own solution which is quite simple, but it *seems* like it should be
> better done in OTP way.
>
> Reason: we have a "cluster manager" application, which collects the
> cluster health status: started applications, requests per second,
> various tests, etc. This information is updated every second via many
> rpc calls to all the nodes.
>
> It would be possible to have the same application running on all the
> nodes, but then they all have the same information. Which is data
> duplication. Not too many messages, but why repeat ourselves?
>
> How do/would you approach this "cluster health" problem?
>
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> Motiejus Jakštys
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