qbwrk.conf does't seems to work (Worker update fails)

[slubitz]

Hi all,

I am evaluating Qube! at the moment and after the installation I recognised some Problems.......
For Example:
I have a very small qbwrk.conf file located in c:\
[GlobalSettings]
proxy_execution_mode=user
client_host_domain=mydomain

After I run: qbadmin worker --reconfig the configuration on the Worker is still the same.
Is there a reason why?

I tried also qbconfigfile c:\qbwrk.conf.The output seems to be OK.

I can set the Values manually on each Client, but this is boaring :-)

Systemdata:
Supervisor: W2k8,64bit, 192.168.103.205
Clients: XP,64bit, 192.168.103.xxx

Has someone made the same experience?

Regards,
Stefan

[Scot Brew]

It looks like you do not have the file placed in the right location.  On Windows, the qbwrk.conf file needs to go into the C:\WINDOWS directory (and will be next to the qb.conf file).  On Linux and OSX, the location is /etc/qbwrk.conf.

Here are 2 useful tools for working with the central worker configuration.  (the Linux/OSX path to qbwrk.conf is shown in the examples below):

• sbin/qbconfigfile /etc/qbwrk.conf :  Show the expanded variables for the workers.
• sbin/qbadmin worker --reconfigure : Pushes out a changed qbwrk.conf file for workers already running.  This can take a few minutes for large farms.
• sbin/qbadmin worker --configuration <hostname> : Displays the configuration of the specified worker.

The workerlog may also provide some debugging information if the configuration is not being picked up:
? Linux/Mac OS X ? /var/log/workerlog
? Windows ? C:\Program Files\qube\logs\workerlog

See the Administration pdf manual Chapter 3 for more information on the qbwrk.conf topic.

[jbravado]

Hello everyone, despite following the examples and browsing the documentation pretty thoroughly, I'm still having trouble getting my workers to update from a global config file. I am doing a very very simple qbwrk.conf file, only attempting to add a group to a few of my workers. After doing qbadmin worker --reconfigure I get no errors. Looking at a workers log file I see that it receives the update request but nothing changes. Any thoughts?

[Yantor]

I'll bump this thread with a similar and equally infuriating problem.

I am attempting to set up a rudimentary qbwrk.conf file on our supervisor system, a virtual server. The file currently has this in it;

[805a[01-15]]
worker_groups = "DAC"

[805b[01-15]]
worker_groups = "DAC"

Which in theory should assign our two labs to the same group, DAC. After saving this file I ran qbadmin w -reconfigure on the supervisor and absolutely nothing happened. I have tried restarting the supervisor and worker services, and looked extensively through the qb.conf files on both worker and supervisor for a clue as to why this refuses to update and reassign the workers to groups. Can anybody point me in the right direction?