Jianxia, you can set the property "start-locator" in gemfire.properties as below... So the server then will have an embedded locator.
http://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/11/reference/topics/gemfire_properties.html start-locator If set, automatically starts a locator in the current process when the member connects to the distributed system and stops the locator when the member disconnects. To use, specify the locator with an optional address or host specification and a required port number, in one of these formats: start-locator=address[port1] start-locator=port1 If you only specify the port, the address assigned to the member is used for the locator. If not already there, this locator is automatically added to the list of locators in this set of gemfire properties. *not set* On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jianxia Chen <jc...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hi Darrel, > > How to configure a colocated locator in the same server process? Just > curious. What I understand is that the locator is in its own process. > > Thanks, > Jianxia > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Darrel Schneider <dschnei...@pivotal.io> > wrote: > > > I like the idea of servers failing to start if no locator exists. > > But does a use case for a server with no locator exist? What about ease > of > > development? > > > > I could see that it would be easier to start just a single server process > > instead of two (locator and server). But for this use case couldn't the > > developer just configure a colocated locator in the same server process? > > This would have the benefit of the clients during development and > > production using a locator consistently. > > > > Is it true that the server with no locator will never have any peer > members > > in its cluster? > > Clients can still connect to this singleton server by being configured > with > > the server host and port instead of the locator. > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > > > Without connecting to the server, I think you can still stop it by > > > specifying --pid or --dir in "stop server" command. > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Udo Kohlmeyer <ukohlme...@pivotal.io> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hey there, > > > > > > > > Current Geode allows a user to start a server without being linked > to a > > > > Locator. Which in itself is not incorrect, but once started there is > no > > > way > > > > to connect to that server to manage it. > > > > > > > > I know that we have taken an opinionated view that member discovery > can > > > > only now happen through a locator and that multicast is an option > > > anymore. > > > > > > > > Can we take the same opinionated view where we either state that > unless > > > > your server is connecting to a locator, it cannot be started OR we > fix > > > the > > > > default behavior where we can start a server but cannot connect to > it, > > > and > > > > have to resort to "kill -9" commands to kill the server. > > > > > > > > --Udo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers > > > > > > Jinmei > > > > > > -- ~/William
