Miscellaneous Tibco notes.

[I am not a Tibco guru. These notes are just me playing around in our UAT environment]

If you listen to a service on a given box, you won't be able to listen to the same service on another daemon on that same box.

For example, if I run:

C:\Users\henphi>tibrvlisten -daemon tcp:HOST:18223 -service 7546 "TESTMSG"
tibrvlisten: Listening to subject TESTMSG
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then connecting to the same service on a different daemon on the same box gives:

C:\Users\henphi>tibrvlisten -daemon tcp:HOST:18200 -service 7546 "TESTMSG"
tibrvlisten: Failed to initialize transport: Initialization failed

for reasons outlined below. The same is true for tibrvsend.


Some miscellaneous Tib notes (a.k.a. brain dump) for the interested

Subscription failover demonstration 

If I start another RVRD process, for some reason I don't understand, the store file needs to be different to the one used by the already running Tib daemon (the store file contains the config, I am told).

Anyway, here goes:

mds@HOST[dev]:~> /opt/mds/tibco_8_1/tibrv/8.1/bin/rvrd -store /tmp/rvrd.store -listen 18223 -logfile /tmp/rvrd.log -log-max-size 1024 -log-max-rotations 5
mds@HOST[dev]:~> ps aux | grep rvrd
mds        669  0.3  0.1 104612 57668 ?        Ssl  Jan13   7:10 /opt/mds/tibco_8_1/tibrv/8.1/bin/rvrd -store /opt/mds/tibco_8_1/tibrv/8.1/rvrd.store -listen 18200 -logfile /var/log/mds/rvrd/rvrd.log -log-max-size 1024 -log-max-rotations 5
mds      15235  0.0  0.0  43992 15860 ?        Ssl  15:24   0:00 /opt/mds/tibco_8_1/tibrv/8.1/bin/rvrd -store /tmp/rvrd.store -listen 18223 -logfile /tmp/rvrd.log -log-max-size 1024 -log-max-rotations 5
mds      16952  0.0  0.0   3936   824 pts/3    S+   15:26   0:00 grep rvrd
mds@HOST[dev]:~>

So, our new process has PID 15235. Seeing what ports it has open:

mds@HOST[dev]:~> netstat -nap 2>/dev/null | grep 15235 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:18223           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15235/rvrd 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:62737           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15235/rvrd 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:57401           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:54339           0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7543            0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7544            0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115673 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115672 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115662 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115661 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115655 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115654 15235/rvrd 
mds@HOST[dev]:~> 

Upon starting a listener on my desktop:

C:\Users\henphi>tibrvlisten -daemon tcp:HOST:18223 -service 7546 "TESTMSG" 

Causes

mds@HOST[dev]:~> netstat -nap 2>/dev/null | grep 15235 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:18223           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15235/rvrd 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:62737           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15235/rvrd 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:57401           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      15235/rvrd 
tcp        0      0 128.162.27.135:18223    128.30.71.147:61239     ESTABLISHED 15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:54339           0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7543            0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7544            0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7546            0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115673 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115672 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115662 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115661 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115655 15235/rvrd 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     2016115654 15235/rvrd 

Note how the service ID maps to the UDP multicast port Tib uses.

Now, back on my desktop in another window:

C:\Users\henphi>tibrvsend -daemon tcp:HOST2:18200 -service 7546 "TESTMSG" "BLAAAHHHH!!!" 
Publishing: subject=TESTMSG "BLAAAHHHH!!!" 

causes

2014-01-14 16:06:52 (2014-01-14 16:06:52.102000000Z): subject=TESTMSG, message={DATA="BLAAAHHHH!!!"} 

to be output to the other. Since we're sending the message to a different box, this demonstrates that the Tib subscriptions are automatically clustering.

Killing our second Tib process:

mds@HOST[dev]:~> netstat -nap 2>/dev/null | grep 7546 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7546            0.0.0.0:*                           15235/rvrd 
mds@HOST[dev]:~> kill 15235 
mds@HOST[dev]:~> netstat -nap 2>/dev/null | grep 7546 
mds@HOST[dev]:~> 

causes the listening Tib to output

2014-01-14 16:12:17 RV: TIB/Rendezvous Error Not Handled by Process: 
{ADV_CLASS="WARN" ADV_SOURCE="SYSTEM" ADV_NAME="RVD.DISCONNECTED"} 

Subsequent tibrvsends are not received and I can't see any UDP ports being opened on the box it's sending to.

Restarting the listener produces:

C:\Users\henphi>tibrvlisten -daemon tcp:HOST:18223 -service 7546 "TESTMSG" 
tibrvlisten: Failed to initialize transport: Not connected to daemon 

If I restart the daemon listening on port 18223, I can resume tibrvsend and tibrvlisten as normal.