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+<h2 id="clusters-overview">Clusters Overview</h2>
+<p>Apache ActiveMQ Artemis clusters allow groups of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis servers to be grouped
+together in order to share message processing load. Each active node in
+the cluster is an active Apache ActiveMQ Artemis server which manages its own messages
+and handles its own connections.</p>
+<p>The cluster is formed by each node declaring <em>cluster connections</em> to
+other nodes in the core configuration file <code>broker.xml</code>.
+When a node forms a cluster connection to another node, internally it
+creates a <em>core bridge</em> (as described in <a href="core-bridges.html">Core Bridges</a>) connection between it and
+the other node, this is done transparently behind the scenes - you don&apos;t
+have to declare an explicit bridge for each node. These cluster
+connections allow messages to flow between the nodes of the cluster to
+balance load.</p>
+<p>Nodes can be connected together to form a cluster in many different
+topologies, we will discuss a couple of the more common topologies later
+in this chapter.</p>
+<p>We&apos;ll also discuss client side load balancing, where we can balance
+client connections across the nodes of the cluster, and we&apos;ll consider
+message redistribution where Apache ActiveMQ Artemis will redistribute messages between
+nodes to avoid starvation.</p>
+<p>Another important part of clustering is <em>server discovery</em> where servers
+can broadcast their connection details so clients or other servers can
+connect to them with the minimum of configuration.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p><a id="copy-warning"></a><strong>Warning</strong></p>
+<p>Once a cluster node has been configured it is common to simply copy
+that configuration to other nodes to produce a symmetric cluster.
+However, care must be taken when copying the Apache ActiveMQ Artemis files. Do not
+copy the Apache ActiveMQ Artemis <em>data</em> (i.e. the <code>bindings</code>, <code>journal</code>, and
+<code>large-messages</code> directories) from one node to another. When a node is
+started for the first time and initializes its journal files it also
+persists a special identifier to the <code>journal</code> directory. This id
+<em>must</em> be unique among nodes in the cluster or the cluster will not
+form properly.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<h2 id="server-discovery">Server discovery</h2>
+<p>Server discovery is a mechanism by which servers can propagate their
+connection details to:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>Messaging clients. A messaging client wants to be able to connect to
+the servers of the cluster without having specific knowledge of
+which servers in the cluster are up at any one time.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>Other servers. Servers in a cluster want to be able to create
+cluster connections to each other without having prior knowledge of
+all the other servers in the cluster.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>This information, let&apos;s call it the Cluster Topology, is actually sent
+around normal Apache ActiveMQ Artemis connections to clients and to other servers over
+cluster connections. This being the case we need a way of establishing
+the initial first connection. This can be done using dynamic discovery
+techniques like
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol" target="_blank">UDP</a> and
+<a href="http://www.jgroups.org/" target="_blank">JGroups</a>, or by providing a list of initial
+connectors.</p>
+<h3 id="dynamic-discovery">Dynamic Discovery</h3>
+<p>Server discovery uses
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol" target="_blank">UDP</a> multicast or
+<a href="http://www.jgroups.org/" target="_blank">JGroups</a> to broadcast server connection
+settings.</p>
+<h4 id="broadcast-groups">Broadcast Groups</h4>
+<p>A broadcast group is the means by which a server broadcasts connectors
+over the network. A connector defines a way in which a client (or other
+server) can make connections to the server. For more information on what
+a connector is, please see <a href="configuring-transports.html">Configuring the Transport</a>.</p>
+<p>The broadcast group takes a set of connector pairs, each connector pair
+contains connection settings for a live and backup server (if one
+exists) and broadcasts them on the network. Depending on which
+broadcasting technique you configure the cluster, it uses either UDP or
+JGroups to broadcast connector pairs information.</p>
+<p>Broadcast groups are defined in the server configuration file
+<code>broker.xml</code>. There can be many broadcast groups per
+Apache ActiveMQ Artemis server. All broadcast groups must be defined in a
+<code>broadcast-groups</code> element.</p>
+<p>Let&apos;s take a look at an example broadcast group from
+<code>broker.xml</code> that defines a UDP broadcast group:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;broadcast-groups&gt;
+   &lt;broadcast-group name=&quot;my-broadcast-group&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;local-bind-address&gt;172.16.9.3&lt;/local-bind-address&gt;
+      &lt;local-bind-port&gt;5432&lt;/local-bind-port&gt;
+      &lt;group-address&gt;231.7.7.7&lt;/group-address&gt;
+      &lt;group-port&gt;9876&lt;/group-port&gt;
+      &lt;broadcast-period&gt;2000&lt;/broadcast-period&gt;
+      &lt;connector-ref&gt;netty-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+   &lt;/broadcast-group&gt;
+&lt;/broadcast-groups&gt;
+</code></pre><p>Some of the broadcast group parameters are optional and you&apos;ll normally
+use the defaults, but we specify them all in the above example for
+clarity. Let&apos;s discuss each one in turn:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><code>name</code> attribute. Each broadcast group in the server must have a
+unique name.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>local-bind-address</code>. This is the local bind address that the
+datagram socket is bound to. If you have multiple network interfaces
+on your server, you would specify which one you wish to use for
+broadcasts by setting this property. If this property is not
+specified then the socket will be bound to the wildcard address, an
+IP address chosen by the kernel. This is a UDP specific attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>local-bind-port</code>. If you want to specify a local port to which the
+datagram socket is bound you can specify it here. Normally you would
+just use the default value of <code>-1</code> which signifies that an anonymous
+port should be used. This parameter is always specified in
+conjunction with <code>local-bind-address</code>. This is a UDP specific
+attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>group-address</code>. This is the multicast address to which the data
+will be broadcast. It is a class D IP address in the range
+<code>224.0.0.0</code> to <code>239.255.255.255</code>, inclusive. The address <code>224.0.0.0</code>
+is reserved and is not available for use. This parameter is
+mandatory. This is a UDP specific attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>group-port</code>. This is the UDP port number used for broadcasting.
+This parameter is mandatory. This is a UDP specific attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>broadcast-period</code>. This is the period in milliseconds between
+consecutive broadcasts. This parameter is optional, the default
+value is <code>2000</code> milliseconds.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>connector-ref</code>. This specifies the connector and optional backup
+connector that will be broadcasted (see <a href="configuring-transports.html">Configuring the Transport</a> for more information on
+connectors). </p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Here is another example broadcast group that defines a JGroups broadcast
+group:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;broadcast-groups&gt;
+   &lt;broadcast-group name=&quot;my-broadcast-group&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;jgroups-file&gt;test-jgroups-file_ping.xml&lt;/jgroups-file&gt;
+      &lt;jgroups-channel&gt;activemq_broadcast_channel&lt;/jgroups-channel&gt;
+      &lt;broadcast-period&gt;2000&lt;/broadcast-period&gt;
+      &lt;connector-ref&gt;netty-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+   &lt;/broadcast-group&gt;
+&lt;/broadcast-groups&gt;
+</code></pre><p>To be able to use JGroups to broadcast, one must specify two attributes,
+i.e. <code>jgroups-file</code> and <code>jgroups-channel</code>, as discussed in details as
+following:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><code>jgroups-file</code> attribute. This is the name of JGroups configuration
+file. It will be used to initialize JGroups channels. Make sure the
+file is in the java resource path so that Apache ActiveMQ Artemis can load it.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>jgroups-channel</code> attribute. The name that JGroups channels connect
+to for broadcasting.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<blockquote>
+<p><strong>Note</strong></p>
+<p>The JGroups attributes (<code>jgroups-file</code> and <code>jgroups-channel</code>) and UDP
+specific attributes described above are exclusive of each other. Only
+one set can be specified in a broadcast group configuration. Don&apos;t mix
+them!</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The following is an example of a JGroups file</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;config xmlns=&quot;urn:org:jgroups&quot;
+   xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
+   xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;urn:org:jgroups http://www.jgroups.org/schema/JGroups-3.0.xsd&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;TCP loopback=&quot;true&quot;
+      recv_buf_size=&quot;20000000&quot;
+      send_buf_size=&quot;640000&quot;
+      discard_incompatible_packets=&quot;true&quot;
+      max_bundle_size=&quot;64000&quot;
+      max_bundle_timeout=&quot;30&quot;
+      enable_bundling=&quot;true&quot;
+      use_send_queues=&quot;false&quot;
+      sock_conn_timeout=&quot;300&quot;
+
+      thread_pool.enabled=&quot;true&quot;
+      thread_pool.min_threads=&quot;1&quot;
+      thread_pool.max_threads=&quot;10&quot;
+      thread_pool.keep_alive_time=&quot;5000&quot;
+      thread_pool.queue_enabled=&quot;false&quot;
+      thread_pool.queue_max_size=&quot;100&quot;
+      thread_pool.rejection_policy=&quot;run&quot;
+
+      oob_thread_pool.enabled=&quot;true&quot;
+      oob_thread_pool.min_threads=&quot;1&quot;
+      oob_thread_pool.max_threads=&quot;8&quot;
+      oob_thread_pool.keep_alive_time=&quot;5000&quot;
+      oob_thread_pool.queue_enabled=&quot;false&quot;
+      oob_thread_pool.queue_max_size=&quot;100&quot;
+      oob_thread_pool.rejection_policy=&quot;run&quot;/&gt;
+
+   &lt;FILE_PING location=&quot;../file.ping.dir&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;MERGE2 max_interval=&quot;30000&quot;
+      min_interval=&quot;10000&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;FD_SOCK/&gt;
+   &lt;FD timeout=&quot;10000&quot; max_tries=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;
+   &lt;VERIFY_SUSPECT timeout=&quot;1500&quot;  /&gt;
+   &lt;BARRIER /&gt;
+   &lt;pbcast.NAKACK
+      use_mcast_xmit=&quot;false&quot;
+      retransmit_timeout=&quot;300,600,1200,2400,4800&quot;
+      discard_delivered_msgs=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;UNICAST timeout=&quot;300,600,1200&quot; /&gt;
+   &lt;pbcast.STABLE stability_delay=&quot;1000&quot; desired_avg_gossip=&quot;50000&quot;
+      max_bytes=&quot;400000&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;pbcast.GMS print_local_addr=&quot;true&quot; join_timeout=&quot;3000&quot;
+      view_bundling=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;FC max_credits=&quot;2000000&quot;
+      min_threshold=&quot;0.10&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;FRAG2 frag_size=&quot;60000&quot;  /&gt;
+   &lt;pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER/&gt;
+   &lt;pbcast.FLUSH timeout=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;
+&lt;/config&gt;
+</code></pre><p>As it shows, the file content defines a jgroups protocol stacks. If you
+want Apache ActiveMQ Artemis to use this stacks for channel creation, you have to make
+sure the value of <code>jgroups-file</code> in your broadcast-group/discovery-group
+configuration to be the name of this jgroups configuration file. For
+example if the above stacks configuration is stored in a file named
+&quot;jgroups-stacks.xml&quot; then your <code>jgroups-file</code> should be like</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;jgroups-file&gt;jgroups-stacks.xml&lt;/jgroups-file&gt;
+</code></pre><h4 id="discovery-groups">Discovery Groups</h4>
+<p>While the broadcast group defines how connector information is
+broadcasted from a server, a discovery group defines how connector
+information is received from a broadcast endpoint (a UDP multicast
+address or JGroup channel).</p>
+<p>A discovery group maintains a list of connector pairs - one for each
+broadcast by a different server. As it receives broadcasts on the
+broadcast endpoint from a particular server it updates its entry in the
+list for that server.</p>
+<p>If it has not received a broadcast from a particular server for a length
+of time it will remove that server&apos;s entry from its list.</p>
+<p>Discovery groups are used in two places in Apache ActiveMQ Artemis:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>By cluster connections so they know how to obtain an initial
+connection to download the topology</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>By messaging clients so they know how to obtain an initial
+connection to download the topology</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Although a discovery group will always accept broadcasts, its current
+list of available live and backup servers is only ever used when an
+initial connection is made, from then server discovery is done over the
+normal Apache ActiveMQ Artemis connections.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p><strong>Note</strong></p>
+<p>Each discovery group must be configured with broadcast endpoint (UDP
+or JGroups) that matches its broadcast group counterpart. For example,
+if broadcast is configured using UDP, the discovery group must also
+use UDP, and the same multicast address.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<h4 id="defining-discovery-groups-on-the-server">Defining Discovery Groups on the Server</h4>
+<p>For cluster connections, discovery groups are defined in the server side
+configuration file <code>broker.xml</code>. All discovery groups
+must be defined inside a <code>discovery-groups</code> element. There can be many
+discovery groups defined by Apache ActiveMQ Artemis server. Let&apos;s look at an example:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;discovery-groups&gt;
+   &lt;discovery-group name=&quot;my-discovery-group&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;local-bind-address&gt;172.16.9.7&lt;/local-bind-address&gt;
+      &lt;group-address&gt;231.7.7.7&lt;/group-address&gt;
+      &lt;group-port&gt;9876&lt;/group-port&gt;
+      &lt;refresh-timeout&gt;10000&lt;/refresh-timeout&gt;
+   &lt;/discovery-group&gt;
+&lt;/discovery-groups&gt;
+</code></pre><p>We&apos;ll consider each parameter of the discovery group:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><code>name</code> attribute. Each discovery group must have a unique name per
+server.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>local-bind-address</code>. If you are running with multiple network
+interfaces on the same machine, you may want to specify that the
+discovery group listens only only a specific interface. To do this
+you can specify the interface address with this parameter. This
+parameter is optional. This is a UDP specific attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>group-address</code>. This is the multicast IP address of the group to
+listen on. It should match the <code>group-address</code> in the broadcast
+group that you wish to listen from. This parameter is mandatory.
+This is a UDP specific attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>group-port</code>. This is the UDP port of the multicast group. It should
+match the <code>group-port</code> in the broadcast group that you wish to
+listen from. This parameter is mandatory. This is a UDP specific
+attribute.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>refresh-timeout</code>. This is the period the discovery group waits
+after receiving the last broadcast from a particular server before
+removing that servers connector pair entry from its list. You would
+normally set this to a value significantly higher than the
+<code>broadcast-period</code> on the broadcast group otherwise servers might
+intermittently disappear from the list even though they are still
+broadcasting due to slight differences in timing. This parameter is
+optional, the default value is <code>10000</code> milliseconds (10 seconds).</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Here is another example that defines a JGroups discovery group:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;discovery-groups&gt;
+   &lt;discovery-group name=&quot;my-broadcast-group&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;jgroups-file&gt;test-jgroups-file_ping.xml&lt;/jgroups-file&gt;
+      &lt;jgroups-channel&gt;activemq_broadcast_channel&lt;/jgroups-channel&gt;
+      &lt;refresh-timeout&gt;10000&lt;/refresh-timeout&gt;
+   &lt;/discovery-group&gt;
+&lt;/discovery-groups&gt;
+</code></pre><p>To receive broadcast from JGroups channels, one must specify two
+attributes, <code>jgroups-file</code> and <code>jgroups-channel</code>, as discussed in
+details as following:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><code>jgroups-file</code> attribute. This is the name of JGroups configuration
+file. It will be used to initialize JGroups channels. Make sure the
+file is in the java resource path so that Apache ActiveMQ Artemis can load it.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>jgroups-channel</code> attribute. The name that JGroups channels connect
+to for receiving broadcasts.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<blockquote>
+<p><strong>Note</strong></p>
+<p>The JGroups attributes (<code>jgroups-file</code> and <code>jgroups-channel</code>) and UDP
+specific attributes described above are exclusive of each other. Only
+one set can be specified in a discovery group configuration. Don&apos;t mix
+them!</p>
+</blockquote>
+<h4 id="discovery-groups-on-the-client-side">Discovery Groups on the Client Side</h4>
+<p>Let&apos;s discuss how to configure an Apache ActiveMQ Artemis client to use discovery to
+discover a list of servers to which it can connect. The way to do this
+differs depending on whether you&apos;re using JMS or the core API.</p>
+<h5 id="configuring-client-discovery">Configuring client discovery</h5>
+<p>Use the <code>udp</code> URL scheme and a host:port combination matches the group-address and
+group-port from the corresponding <code>broadcast-group</code> on the server:</p>
+<pre><code>udp://231.7.7.7:9876
+</code></pre><p>The element <code>discovery-group-ref</code> specifies the name of a discovery
+group defined in <code>broker.xml</code>.</p>
+<p>Connections created using this URI will be load-balanced across the
+list of servers that the discovery group maintains by listening on
+the multicast address specified in the discovery group configuration.</p>
+<p>The aforementioned <code>refreshTimeout</code> parameter can be set directly in the URI.</p>
+<p>There is also a URL parameter named <code>initialWaitTimeout</code>. If the corresponding
+JMS connection factory or core session factory is used immediately after
+creation then it may not have had enough time to received broadcasts from
+all the nodes in the cluster. On first usage, the connection factory will
+make sure it waits this long since creation before creating the first
+connection. The default value for this parameter is <code>10000</code> milliseconds.</p>
+<h3 id="discovery-using-static-connectors">Discovery using static Connectors</h3>
+<p>Sometimes it may be impossible to use UDP on the network you are using.
+In this case its possible to configure a connection with an initial list
+if possible servers. This could be just one server that you know will
+always be available or a list of servers where at least one will be
+available.</p>
+<p>This doesn&apos;t mean that you have to know where all your servers are going
+to be hosted, you can configure these servers to use the reliable
+servers to connect to. Once they are connected there connection details
+will be propagated via the server it connects to</p>
+<h4 id="configuring-a-cluster-connection">Configuring a Cluster Connection</h4>
+<p>For cluster connections there is no extra configuration needed, you just
+need to make sure that any connectors are defined in the usual manner,
+(see <a href="configuring-transports.html">Configuring the Transport</a> for more information on connectors). These are then referenced by
+the cluster connection configuration.</p>
+<h4 id="configuring-a-client-connection">Configuring a Client Connection</h4>
+<p>A static list of possible servers can also be used by a normal client.</p>
+<h5 id="configuring-client-discovery">Configuring client discovery</h5>
+<p>A list of servers to be used for the initial connection attempt can be
+specified in the connection URI using a syntax with <code>()</code>, e.g.:</p>
+<pre><code>(tcp://myhost:61616,tcp://myhost2:61616)?reconnectAttempts=5
+</code></pre><p>The brackets are expanded so the same query can be appended after the last
+bracket for ease.</p>
+<h2 id="server-side-message-load-balancing">Server-Side Message Load Balancing</h2>
+<p>If cluster connections are defined between nodes of a cluster, then
+Apache ActiveMQ Artemis will load balance messages arriving at a particular node from a
+client.</p>
+<p>Let&apos;s take a simple example of a cluster of four nodes A, B, C, and D
+arranged in a <em>symmetric cluster</em> (described in Symmetrical Clusters section). We have a queue
+called <code>OrderQueue</code> deployed on each node of the cluster.</p>
+<p>We have client Ca connected to node A, sending orders to the server. We
+have also have order processor clients Pa, Pb, Pc, and Pd connected to
+each of the nodes A, B, C, D. If no cluster connection was defined on
+node A, then as order messages arrive on node A they will all end up in
+the <code>OrderQueue</code> on node A, so will only get consumed by the order
+processor client attached to node A, Pa.</p>
+<p>If we define a cluster connection on node A, then as ordered messages
+arrive on node A instead of all of them going into the local
+<code>OrderQueue</code> instance, they are distributed in a round-robin fashion
+between all the nodes of the cluster. The messages are forwarded from
+the receiving node to other nodes of the cluster. This is all done on
+the server side, the client maintains a single connection to node A.</p>
+<p>For example, messages arriving on node A might be distributed in the
+following order between the nodes: B, D, C, A, B, D, C, A, B, D. The
+exact order depends on the order the nodes started up, but the algorithm
+used is round robin.</p>
+<p>Apache ActiveMQ Artemis cluster connections can be configured to always blindly load
+balance messages in a round robin fashion irrespective of whether there
+are any matching consumers on other nodes, but they can be a bit
+cleverer than that and also be configured to only distribute to other
+nodes if they have matching consumers. We&apos;ll look at both these cases in
+turn with some examples, but first we&apos;ll discuss configuring cluster
+connections in general.</p>
+<h3 id="configuring-cluster-connections">Configuring Cluster Connections</h3>
+<p>Cluster connections group servers into clusters so that messages can be
+load balanced between the nodes of the cluster. Let&apos;s take a look at a
+typical cluster connection. Cluster connections are always defined in
+<code>broker.xml</code> inside a <code>cluster-connection</code> element.
+There can be zero or more cluster connections defined per Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
+server.</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;cluster-connections&gt;
+   &lt;cluster-connection name=&quot;my-cluster&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;address&gt;&lt;/address&gt;
+      &lt;connector-ref&gt;netty-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+      &lt;check-period&gt;1000&lt;/check-period&gt;
+      &lt;connection-ttl&gt;5000&lt;/connection-ttl&gt;
+      &lt;min-large-message-size&gt;50000&lt;/min-large-message-size&gt;
+      &lt;call-timeout&gt;5000&lt;/call-timeout&gt;
+      &lt;retry-interval&gt;500&lt;/retry-interval&gt;
+      &lt;retry-interval-multiplier&gt;1.0&lt;/retry-interval-multiplier&gt;
+      &lt;max-retry-interval&gt;5000&lt;/max-retry-interval&gt;
+      &lt;initial-connect-attempts&gt;-1&lt;/initial-connect-attempts&gt;
+      &lt;reconnect-attempts&gt;-1&lt;/reconnect-attempts&gt;
+      &lt;use-duplicate-detection&gt;true&lt;/use-duplicate-detection&gt;
+      &lt;message-load-balancing&gt;ON_DEMAND&lt;/message-load-balancing&gt;
+      &lt;max-hops&gt;1&lt;/max-hops&gt;
+      &lt;confirmation-window-size&gt;32000&lt;/confirmation-window-size&gt;
+      &lt;call-failover-timeout&gt;30000&lt;/call-failover-timeout&gt;
+      &lt;notification-interval&gt;1000&lt;/notification-interval&gt;
+      &lt;notification-attempts&gt;2&lt;/notification-attempts&gt;
+      &lt;discovery-group-ref discovery-group-name=&quot;my-discovery-group&quot;/&gt;
+   &lt;/cluster-connection&gt;
+&lt;/cluster-connections&gt;
+</code></pre><p>In the above cluster connection all parameters have been explicitly
+specified. The following shows all the available configuration options</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><code>address</code> Each cluster connection only applies to addresses that
+match the specified address field. An address is matched on the
+cluster connection when it begins with the string specified in this
+field. The address field on a cluster connection also supports comma
+separated lists and an exclude syntax &apos;!&apos;. To prevent an address
+from being matched on this cluster connection, prepend a cluster
+connection address string with &apos;!&apos;.</p>
+<p>In the case shown above the cluster connection will load balance
+messages sent to all addresses (since it&apos;s empty).</p>
+<p>The address can be any value and you can have many cluster
+connections with different values of <code>address</code>, simultaneously
+balancing messages for those addresses, potentially to different
+clusters of servers. By having multiple cluster connections on
+different addresses a single Apache ActiveMQ Artemis Server can effectively take
+part in multiple clusters simultaneously.</p>
+<p>Be careful not to have multiple cluster connections with overlapping
+values of <code>address</code>, e.g. &quot;europe&quot; and &quot;europe.news&quot; since this
+could result in the same messages being distributed between more
+than one cluster connection, possibly resulting in duplicate
+deliveries.</p>
+<p>Examples:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>&apos;eu&apos;
+matches all addresses starting with &apos;eu&apos;</li>
+<li>&apos;!eu&apos;
+matches all address except for those starting with &apos;eu&apos;</li>
+<li>&apos;eu.uk,eu.de&apos;
+matches all addresses starting with either &apos;eu.uk&apos; or
+&apos;eu.de&apos;</li>
+<li>&apos;eu,!eu.uk&apos;
+matches all addresses starting with &apos;eu&apos; but not those
+starting with &apos;eu.uk&apos;</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Notes:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Address exclusion will always takes precedence over address
+inclusion.</li>
+<li>Address matching on cluster connections does not support
+wild-card matching.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>This parameter is mandatory.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>connector-ref</code>. This is the connector which will be sent to other
+nodes in the cluster so they have the correct cluster topology.</p>
+<p>This parameter is mandatory.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>check-period</code>. The period (in milliseconds) used to check if the
+cluster connection has failed to receive pings from another server.
+Default is 30000.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>connection-ttl</code>. This is how long a cluster connection should stay
+alive if it stops receiving messages from a specific node in the
+cluster. Default is 60000.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>min-large-message-size</code>. If the message size (in bytes) is larger
+than this value then it will be split into multiple segments when
+sent over the network to other cluster members. Default is 102400.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>call-timeout</code>. When a packet is sent via a cluster connection and
+is a blocking call, i.e. for acknowledgements, this is how long it
+will wait (in milliseconds) for the reply before throwing an
+exception. Default is 30000.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>retry-interval</code>. We mentioned before that, internally, cluster
+connections cause bridges to be created between the nodes of the
+cluster. If the cluster connection is created and the target node
+has not been started, or say, is being rebooted, then the cluster
+connections from other nodes will retry connecting to the target
+until it comes back up, in the same way as a bridge does.</p>
+<p>This parameter determines the interval in milliseconds between retry
+attempts. It has the same meaning as the <code>retry-interval</code> on a
+bridge (as described in <a href="core-bridges.html">Core Bridges</a>).</p>
+<p>This parameter is optional and its default value is <code>500</code>
+milliseconds.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>retry-interval-multiplier</code>. This is a multiplier used to increase
+the <code>retry-interval</code> after each reconnect attempt, default is 1.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>max-retry-interval</code>. The maximum delay (in milliseconds) for
+retries. Default is 2000.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>initial-connect-attempts</code>. The number of times the system will try
+to connect a node in the cluster initially. If the max-retry is
+achieved this node will be considered permanently down and the
+system will not route messages to this node. Default is -1 (infinite
+retries).</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>reconnect-attempts</code>. The number of times the system will try to
+reconnect to a node in the cluster. If the max-retry is achieved
+this node will be considered permanently down and the system will
+stop routing messages to this node. Default is -1 (infinite
+retries).</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>use-duplicate-detection</code>. Internally cluster connections use
+bridges to link the nodes, and bridges can be configured to add a
+duplicate id property in each message that is forwarded. If the
+target node of the bridge crashes and then recovers, messages might
+be resent from the source node. By enabling duplicate detection any
+duplicate messages will be filtered out and ignored on receipt at
+the target node.</p>
+<p>This parameter has the same meaning as <code>use-duplicate-detection</code> on
+a bridge. For more information on duplicate detection, please see <a href="duplicate-detection.html">Duplicate Detection</a>.
+Default is true.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>message-load-balancing</code>. This parameter determines if/how
+messages will be distributed between other nodes of the cluster.
+It can be one of three values - <code>OFF</code>, <code>STRICT</code>, or <code>ON_DEMAND</code> 
+(default). This parameter replaces the deprecated
+<code>forward-when-no-consumers</code> parameter.</p>
+<p>If this is set to <code>OFF</code> then messages will never be forwarded to
+another node in the cluster</p>
+<p>If this is set to <code>STRICT</code> then each incoming message will be round
+robin&apos;d even though the same queues on the other nodes of the
+cluster may have no consumers at all, or they may have consumers
+that have non matching message filters (selectors). Note that
+Apache ActiveMQ Artemis will <em>not</em> forward messages to other nodes
+if there are no <em>queues</em> of the same name on the other nodes, even
+if this parameter is set to <code>STRICT</code>. Using <code>STRICT</code> is like setting
+the legacy <code>forward-when-no-consumers</code> parameter to <code>true</code>.</p>
+<p>If this is set to <code>ON_DEMAND</code> then Apache ActiveMQ Artemis will only
+forward messages to other nodes of the cluster if the address to which
+they are being forwarded has queues which have consumers, and if those
+consumers have message filters (selectors) at least one of those
+selectors must match the message. Using <code>ON_DEMAND</code> is like setting
+the legacy <code>forward-when-no-consumers</code> parameter to <code>false</code>.</p>
+<p>Default is <code>ON_DEMAND</code>.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>max-hops</code>. When a cluster connection decides the set of nodes to
+which it might load balance a message, those nodes do not have to be
+directly connected to it via a cluster connection. Apache ActiveMQ Artemis can be
+configured to also load balance messages to nodes which might be
+connected to it only indirectly with other Apache ActiveMQ Artemis servers as
+intermediates in a chain.</p>
+<p>This allows Apache ActiveMQ Artemis to be configured in more complex topologies and
+still provide message load balancing. We&apos;ll discuss this more later
+in this chapter.</p>
+<p>The default value for this parameter is <code>1</code>, which means messages
+are only load balanced to other Apache ActiveMQ Artemis serves which are directly
+connected to this server. This parameter is optional.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>confirmation-window-size</code>. The size (in bytes) of the window used
+for sending confirmations from the server connected to. So once the
+server has received <code>confirmation-window-size</code> bytes it notifies its
+client, default is 1048576. A value of -1 means no window.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>producer-window-size</code>. The size for producer flow control over cluster connection.
+ it&apos;s by default disabled through the cluster connection bridge but you may want
+ to set a value if you are using really large messages in cluster. A value of -1 means no window.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>call-failover-timeout</code>. Similar to <code>call-timeout</code> but used when a
+call is made during a failover attempt. Default is -1 (no timeout).</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>notification-interval</code>. How often (in milliseconds) the cluster
+connection should broadcast itself when attaching to the cluster.
+Default is 1000.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>notification-attempts</code>. How many times the cluster connection
+should broadcast itself when connecting to the cluster. Default is
+2.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p><code>discovery-group-ref</code>. This parameter determines which discovery
+group is used to obtain the list of other servers in the cluster
+that this cluster connection will make connections to.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Alternatively if you would like your cluster connections to use a static
+list of servers for discovery then you can do it like this.</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;cluster-connection name=&quot;my-cluster&quot;&gt;
+   ...
+   &lt;static-connectors&gt;
+      &lt;connector-ref&gt;server0-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+      &lt;connector-ref&gt;server1-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+   &lt;/static-connectors&gt;
+&lt;/cluster-connection&gt;
+</code></pre><p>Here we have defined 2 servers that we know for sure will that at least
+one will be available. There may be many more servers in the cluster but
+these will; be discovered via one of these connectors once an initial
+connection has been made.</p>
+<h3 id="cluster-user-credentials">Cluster User Credentials</h3>
+<p>When creating connections between nodes of a cluster to form a cluster
+connection, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis uses a cluster user and cluster password which is
+defined in <code>broker.xml</code>:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;cluster-user&gt;ACTIVEMQ.CLUSTER.ADMIN.USER&lt;/cluster-user&gt;
+&lt;cluster-password&gt;CHANGE ME!!&lt;/cluster-password&gt;
+</code></pre><blockquote>
+<p><strong>Warning</strong></p>
+<p>It is imperative that these values are changed from their default, or
+remote clients will be able to make connections to the server using
+the default values. If they are not changed from the default, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
+will detect this and pester you with a warning on every start-up.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<h2 id="client-side-load-balancing">Client-Side Load balancing</h2>
+<p>With Apache ActiveMQ Artemis client-side load balancing, subsequent sessions created
+using a single session factory can be connected to different nodes of
+the cluster. This allows sessions to spread smoothly across the nodes of
+a cluster and not be &quot;clumped&quot; on any particular node.</p>
+<p>The load balancing policy to be used by the client factory is
+configurable. Apache ActiveMQ Artemis provides four out-of-the-box load balancing
+policies, and you can also implement your own and use that.</p>
+<p>The out-of-the-box policies are</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>Round Robin. With this policy the first node is chosen randomly then
+each subsequent node is chosen sequentially in the same order.</p>
+<p>For example nodes might be chosen in the order B, C, D, A, B, C, D,
+A, B or D, A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D or C, D, A, B, C, D, A, B, C.</p>
+<p>Use
+<code>org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.RoundRobinConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy</code>
+as the <code>&lt;connection-load-balancing-policy-class-name&gt;</code>.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>Random. With this policy each node is chosen randomly.</p>
+<p>Use
+<code>org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.RandomConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy</code>
+as the <code>&lt;connection-load-balancing-policy-class-name&gt;</code>.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>Random Sticky. With this policy the first node is chosen randomly
+and then re-used for subsequent connections.</p>
+<p>Use
+<code>org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.RandomStickyConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy</code>
+as the <code>&lt;connection-load-balancing-policy-class-name&gt;</code>.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>First Element. With this policy the &quot;first&quot; (i.e. 0th) node is
+always returned.</p>
+<p>Use
+<code>org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.FirstElementConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy</code>
+as the <code>&lt;connection-load-balancing-policy-class-name&gt;</code>.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<p>You can also implement your own policy by implementing the interface
+<code>org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.ConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy</code></p>
+<p>Specifying which load balancing policy to use differs whether you are
+using JMS or the core API. If you don&apos;t specify a policy then the
+default will be used which is
+<code>org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.RoundRobinConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy</code>.</p>
+<p>The parameter <code>loadBalancingPolicyClassName</code> can be set on the URI to
+configure what load balancing policy to use:</p>
+<pre><code>tcp://localhost:61616?loadBalancingPolicyClassName=org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.client.loadbalance.RandomConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy
+</code></pre><p>The set of servers over which the factory load balances can be
+determined in one of two ways:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>Specifying servers explicitly in the URL. This also requires setting
+the <code>useTopologyForLoadBalancing</code> parameter to <code>false</code> on the URL.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p>Using discovery. This is the default behavior.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="specifying-members-of-a-cluster-explicitly">Specifying Members of a Cluster Explicitly</h2>
+<p>Sometimes you want to explicitly define a cluster more explicitly, that
+is control which server connect to each other in the cluster. This is
+typically used to form non symmetrical clusters such as chain cluster or
+ring clusters. This can only be done using a static list of connectors
+and is configured as follows:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;cluster-connection name=&quot;my-cluster&quot;&gt;
+   &lt;address&gt;jms&lt;/address&gt;
+   &lt;connector-ref&gt;netty-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+   &lt;retry-interval&gt;500&lt;/retry-interval&gt;
+   &lt;use-duplicate-detection&gt;true&lt;/use-duplicate-detection&gt;
+   &lt;message-load-balancing&gt;STRICT&lt;/message-load-balancing&gt;
+   &lt;max-hops&gt;1&lt;/max-hops&gt;
+   &lt;static-connectors allow-direct-connections-only=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;connector-ref&gt;server1-connector&lt;/connector-ref&gt;
+   &lt;/static-connectors&gt;
+&lt;/cluster-connection&gt;
+</code></pre><p>In this example we have set the attribute
+<code>allow-direct-connections-only</code> which means that the only server that
+this server can create a cluster connection to is server1-connector.
+This means you can explicitly create any cluster topology you want.</p>
+<h2 id="message-redistribution">Message Redistribution</h2>
+<p>Another important part of clustering is message redistribution. Earlier
+we learned how server side message load balancing round robins messages
+across the cluster. If <code>message-load-balancing</code> is <code>OFF</code> or <code>ON_DEMAND</code>
+then messages won&apos;t be forwarded to nodes which don&apos;t have matching
+consumers. This is great and ensures that messages aren&apos;t moved to a
+queue which has no consumers to consume them. However, there is a
+situation it doesn&apos;t solve: What happens if the consumers on a queue
+close after the messages have been sent to the node? If there are no
+consumers on the queue the message won&apos;t get consumed and we have a
+<em>starvation</em> situation.</p>
+<p>This is where message redistribution comes in. With message
+redistribution Apache ActiveMQ Artemis can be configured to automatically
+<em>redistribute</em> messages from queues which have no consumers back to
+other nodes in the cluster which do have matching consumers. To enable
+this functionality <code>message-load-balancing</code> must be <code>ON_DEMAND</code>.</p>
+<p>Message redistribution can be configured to kick in immediately after
+the last consumer on a queue is closed, or to wait a configurable delay
+after the last consumer on a queue is closed before redistributing. By
+default message redistribution is disabled.</p>
+<p>Message redistribution can be configured on a per address basis, by
+specifying the redistribution delay in the address settings, for more
+information on configuring address settings, please see <a href="queue-attributes.html">Queue Attributes</a>.</p>
+<p>Here&apos;s an address settings snippet from <code>broker.xml</code>
+showing how message redistribution is enabled for a set of queues:</p>
+<pre><code>&lt;address-settings&gt;
+   &lt;address-setting match=&quot;#&quot;&gt;
+      &lt;redistribution-delay&gt;0&lt;/redistribution-delay&gt;
+   &lt;/address-setting&gt;
+&lt;/address-settings&gt;
+</code></pre><p>The above <code>address-settings</code> block would set a <code>redistribution-delay</code> of
+<code>0</code> for any queue which is bound to any address. So the above would enable
+instant (no delay) redistribution for all addresses.</p>
+<p>The attribute <code>match</code> can be an exact match or it can be a string that
+conforms to the Apache ActiveMQ Artemis wildcard syntax (described in <a href="wildcard-syntax.html">Wildcard Syntax</a>).</p>
+<p>The element <code>redistribution-delay</code> defines the delay in milliseconds
+after the last consumer is closed on a queue before redistributing
+messages from that queue to other nodes of the cluster which do have
+matching consumers. A delay of zero means the messages will be
+immediately redistributed. A value of <code>-1</code> signifies that messages will
+never be redistributed. The default value is <code>-1</code>.</p>
+<p>It often makes sense to introduce a delay before redistributing as it&apos;s
+a common case that a consumer closes but another one quickly is created
+on the same queue, in such a case you probably don&apos;t want to
+redistribute immediately since the new consumer will arrive shortly.</p>
+<h2 id="cluster-topologies">Cluster topologies</h2>
+<p>Apache ActiveMQ Artemis clusters can be connected together in many different
+topologies, let&apos;s consider the two most common ones here</p>
+<h3 id="symmetric-cluster">Symmetric cluster</h3>
+<p>A symmetric cluster is probably the most common cluster topology.</p>
+<p>With a symmetric cluster every node in the cluster is connected to every
+other node in the cluster. In other words every node in the cluster is
+no more than one hop away from every other node.</p>
+<p>To form a symmetric cluster every node in the cluster defines a cluster
+connection with the attribute <code>max-hops</code> set to <code>1</code>. Typically the
+cluster connection will use server discovery in order to know what other
+servers in the cluster it should connect to, although it is possible to
+explicitly define each target server too in the cluster connection if,
+for example, UDP is not available on your network.</p>
+<p>With a symmetric cluster each node knows about all the queues that exist
+on all the other nodes and what consumers they have. With this knowledge
+it can determine how to load balance and redistribute messages around
+the nodes.</p>
+<p>Don&apos;t forget <a href="#copy-warning">this warning</a> when creating a symmetric
+cluster.</p>
+<h3 id="chain-cluster">Chain cluster</h3>
+<p>With a chain cluster, each node in the cluster is not connected to every
+node in the cluster directly, instead the nodes form a chain with a node
+on each end of the chain and all other nodes just connecting to the
+previous and next nodes in the chain.</p>
+<p>An example of this would be a three node chain consisting of nodes A, B
+and C. Node A is hosted in one network and has many producer clients
+connected to it sending order messages. Due to corporate policy, the
+order consumer clients need to be hosted in a different network, and
+that network is only accessible via a third network. In this setup node
+B acts as a mediator with no producers or consumers on it. Any messages
+arriving on node A will be forwarded to node B, which will in turn
+forward them to node C where they can get consumed. Node A does not need
+to directly connect to C, but all the nodes can still act as a part of
+the cluster.</p>
+<p>To set up a cluster in this way, node A would define a cluster
+connection that connects to node B, and node B would define a cluster
+connection that connects to node C. In this case we only want cluster
+connections in one direction since we&apos;re only moving messages from node
+A-&gt;B-&gt;C and never from C-&gt;B-&gt;A.</p>
+<p>For this topology we would set <code>max-hops</code> to <code>2</code>. With a value of <code>2</code>
+the knowledge of what queues and consumers that exist on node C would be
+propagated from node C to node B to node A. Node A would then know to
+distribute messages to node B when they arrive, even though node B has
+no consumers itself, it would know that a further hop away is node C
+which does have consumers.</p>
+<h3 id="scaling-down">Scaling Down</h3>
+<p>Apache ActiveMQ Artemis supports scaling down a cluster with no message loss (even for
+non-durable messages). This is especially useful in certain environments
+(e.g. the cloud) where the size of a cluster may change relatively
+frequently. When scaling up a cluster (i.e. adding nodes) there is no
+risk of message loss, but when scaling down a cluster (i.e. removing
+nodes) the messages on those nodes would be lost unless the broker sent
+them to another node in the cluster. Apache ActiveMQ Artemis can be configured to do
+just that.</p>
+<p>The simplest way to enable this behavior is to set <code>scale-down</code> to
+<code>true</code>. If the server is clustered and <code>scale-down</code> is <code>true</code> then when
+the server is shutdown gracefully (i.e. stopped without crashing) it
+will find another node in the cluster and send <em>all</em> of its messages
+(both durable and non-durable) to that node. The messages are processed
+in order and go to the <em>back</em> of the respective queues on the other node
+(just as if the messages were sent from an external client for the first
+time).</p>
+<p>If more control over where the messages go is required then specify
+<code>scale-down-group-name</code>. Messages will only be sent to another node in
+the cluster that uses the same <code>scale-down-group-name</code> as the server
+being shutdown.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p><strong>Warning</strong></p>
+<p>If cluster nodes are grouped together with different
+<code>scale-down-group-name</code> values beware. If all the nodes in a single
+group are shut down then the messages from that node/group will be
+lost.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>If the server is using multiple <code>cluster-connection</code> then use
+<code>scale-down-clustername</code> to identify the name of the
+<code>cluster-connection</code> which should be used for scaling down.</p>
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