Mycat beta 0.3.0 released

After a very long time distracted with other projects, I finally added the third component of the MyCAT project: binlog_mon, a binary log manager for MySQL.

The main feature of this tool is that it has two disk usage thresholds which determine when it purges your binary logs:

• a lower, "nominal", threshold above which binary logs will be purged if-and-only-if none of the replication slaves are still reading it,
• and a higher, "critical", threshold at which the behavior is configurable.
  

It can simply send you an alert if disk usage is above critical and the oldest file is still needed - or it can purge 1 file, all files until usage below critical, or all files until usage below nominal levels. (Other options could be added fairly easily.) The "critical" option is so configurable because purging any binary log while a slave is still reading them will most likely corrupt the slave, but in some (probably most) cases that is better than filling up the log disk and locking the master database!

For those not familiar with the MyCAT project, it is an open-source Perl toolset for managing MySQL/Linux servers that I wrote initially for my own use, but after a few people asked for similar tools I decided to publish it. Currently, it is composed of three programs that: monitor replication (rep_mon), monitor and rotate binary logs (binlog_mon), and allow remote shell and scp access to predefined groups of servers (rcall). This third tool is great for simplifying tasks such as syncing a new httpd.conf file and running a rolling-restart across a large web farm. All three tools read the same XML configuration file which defines servers and their properties (such as which servers have mysql, what volume the binlogs are on and what the nominal/critical levels are, what an acceptable replication "lag" is, and whether or not exceeding that lag is important enough to send you an email, etc). It really does a lot of things useful to any linux or mysql admin working in a LAMP environment, and I encourage anyone to send me feedback or feature requests.

MyCAT wiki
MyCAT on Sourceforge


Cheers,
Devananda