db_enlarge

This job increases the number of active database nodes. The database must be stopped to run this job. The nodes to be added must be added already as reserve nodes. Afterwards, the database is started with the new nodes automatically.

Mandatory Parameters

Parameter Name Data Type Description
db_name string The name of an existing database.
num_new_nodes string, integer Number of nodes which are to be added as active node to the given database. It is not possible to specify which nodes are added.

Optional Parameters

There are no optional parameters.

Substitute Parameters

There are no substitute parameters.

Allowed Users

The following users are allowed to run this job:

  • root

Allowed Groups

The following groups are allowed to run this job:

  • root
  • exaadm
  • exadbadm

Examples

The following code snippets show how to use this job using both Python (via XML-RPC) and on the command-line using confd_client.

conn.job_exec('db_enlarge', {'params': {'db_name': 'exa_db', 'num_new_nodes': 2}})
confd_client db_enlarge db_name: exa_db num_new_nodes: 2