Add services

In ADCM a service means a software that performs some function. Examples of services for ADB clusters: ADB, ADB Control, Chrony, etc. The steps for adding services to a cluster are listed below:

  1. Select a cluster on the Clusters page. To do this, click a cluster name in the Name column.

    Select a cluster
    Select a cluster
  2. Open the Services tab on the cluster page and click Add service.

    Switch to adding services
    Switch to adding services
  3. In the opened dialog, select services that should be added to the cluster and click Add.

    Select services
    Select services

    The brief description of available services is listed below. CE means the Common Edition of ADB, EE — the Enterprise Edition of ADB.

    Services that can be added to the ADB cluster
    Service Mandatory Edition Purpose

    ADB

    Yes

    CE/EE

    A core service, corresponding to the massively parallel DBMS based on Greenplum

    Chrony

    No

    CE/EE

    A time service. Provides time synchronization for the cluster hosts, that is necessary for the cluster to work correctly. If the time service is already configured on the hosts, there is no need to install Chrony

    PXF

    No

    CE/EE

    A service that provides ADB interactions with external data sources

    ADB ClickHouse Connector

    No

    EE

    ADB ClickHouse Connector — a service that provides two-way ADB interactions with ClickHouse. Requires PXF

    ADB to Kafka

    No

    EE

    ADB to Kafka Connector — a service that provides one-way ADB interactions with Kafka. Requires PXF

    Kafka to ADB

    No

    EE

    Kafka to ADB Connector — a service that provides one-way Kafka interactions with ADB

    ADB to ADB

    No

    EE

    ADB to ADB Connector — a service that provides two-way interactions between ADB clusters

    ADBM

    No

    EE

    Arenadata DB Backup Manager — a service for ADB binary backups management. Can be installed only offline

    ADB Control

    No

    EE

    Arenadata DB Control (ADB Control) — a service for monitoring, diagnostics, and management of queries, that run in the ADB cluster. Can be installed only offline

    Monitoring Clients

    No

    CE/EE

    Agents that send information on hosts to the monitoring system, that is based on such services as Diamond, Graphite, and Grafana. The service should be added after the monitoring cluster is installed and configured, if monitoring of the current cluster is planned

  4. As a result, the added services are displayed on the Services tab.

    The result of successful adding services to a cluster
    The result of successful adding services to a cluster
NOTE
You can also add services later. The process of adding new services to already running cluster does not differ from installing a service from scratch.
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