CS 425 Membership
Prerequisites
Have node and npm installed on each VM and clone the repo in each one.
Cli Tool
The cli tool has a couple commands that allows it to interact with the introducers and machines to tell it to join, leave, or list that machine's membership lists.
To set it up, run the following commands
cd cli
npm install
npm run build
npm link
This links the mem
command to your command line, so you can run all the commands below
mem -h
Explains all the commands availible
mem init
Sets up five nodes (VMs 2 through 6) in a group, with VM 1 as the introducer.
mem join <VM_number>
: Adds the specified VM to the group.
mem leave <VM_number>
: Voluntarily removal of the specified VM from group.
mem list <VM_number>
: Lists the membership list local the specified VM.
Machine
Each machine has a membership lists of nodes its pinging and statuses of whether or not they are alive or dead depending on how long it has been since the last ping.
To set it up, run the following commands
cd machine
npm install
npm run start
Introducer
The introducer has a list of all VMs up, and gets messages when anotehr machine joins and leaves. Based on that, it updates all the nodes membership lists.
To set it up, run the following commands
cd introducer
npm install
npm run start
Getting logs
In the introducer and machine, instead of running npm run start
as the last command, run npm run start > log.txt
which will write all the output to a file. Otherwise, if it is open, you can the logs printed out to temrinal.