[Chilli] Coova-Chilli Multi Tenanency Mode

[David Bird]

Some thoughts that come to mind:

- Check an instance with "chilli_query <specific-cmdsock-file> procs"

- Are you able to see the errors from the chilli that didn't start? 

- You have different cmdsocket, pidfile, unixipc files?

- You might assign each instance it's own tunX interface specifically,
using tundev=tunX

David

On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 11:57 +0000, Russell Mike wrote:
> Dear David & Community Members Greetings,
> 
> This discussion is with respect to that, how to make sure all
> instances are up for "CoovaChilli" in multi tenant environment after
> hardware server reboots. 
> 
> 1.) This is ISP environment. We have 10 Coovachill instances running
> (Multi Tenanency) using (VLANs 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100). When
> system reboot, all daemons comes up just fine and start serving users
> by presenting login page. We are very very happy from Coova-Chilli
> implementation. 
> 
> 2.) BUT SOMETIMES when system reboot and after it has comes up. For
> example VLAN30 would not present login page, other NINE(9) instances
> would be just fine, working as expected. Then i restart Chilli daemon
> as solution. Now, all 10 daemons would come up and start serving just
> fine again. 
> 
> 2a) BUT SOMETIME, when i apply the solution (restart Chill daemon) one
> of them would not present login page again (it is random VLAN
> (Sometime 30/80/20 etc..)). 
> 
> For example: i restarted the service earlier because VLAN 90 was not
> presenting login page, after restart VLAN60 daemon is not presenting
> login page. Problem is recoverable, by restarting service more than
> once.
> 
> 2b.) When a instance would not present login page. Same time i see
> that, it is mounted & listening on the port ("netstat") stuff looks
> obvious from that point of view. Tunnel would be created as well, all
> stuff belongs to that VLAN (that is not serving web page) exists under
> "/var/run'chilli* (pid, ipc, socket, bash script). 
> 
> HOW I AM DOING IT: 
> 
> 
> Now whenever the Chilli Server is restarted, i manually browse & check
> if all daemons are presenting login pages. But eventually, we going to
> run minimum 120 daemons. it would not possible to browse 120 pages
> after every reboot. Is there better way to handle it? or what could be
> the auto fix? i was thinking something like a script that can check
> the functionality, if everything did not up restart the daemon
> again. i understand that we do not restart data center servers
> everyday but it happens sometimes due to the power outage or UPS
> failed or generator did not come up on time etc.
> 
> Thanks / Regards 
> 
> RM --- 
> 
> 

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