Thanks Hoss, those are some really useful clarifications. Since what I'm working on is currently at POC stage I'll go with the system properties and will refactor them out as I move towards having a standalone ZooKeeper ensemble.
Thanks again. Edd On 10 April 2013 01:41, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > : Thanks for the replies. The problem I have is that setting them at the > JVM > : level would mean that all instances of Solr deployed in the Tomcat > instance > : are forced to use the same settings. I actually want to set the > properties > : at the application level (e.g. in solr.xml, zoo.conf or maybe an > : application level Tomcat Context.xml file). > > the thing to keep in mind is that most of the params you refered to are > things you would not typically want in a deployed setup. others are > just ways of specifying defaults that are substituted into configs... > > : > > java -Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/collection1/conf > > you don't wnat this option for a normal setup, it's just for boostratping > (hence it's only a system property). in a production setup you would use > the zookeeper tools to load the configs into your zk quorum. > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud#Config_Startup_Bootstrap_Params > ...vs... > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud#Command_Line_Util > > : > > -Dcollection.configName=myconf -DzkRun > > ditto for collection.configName -- it's only for boostraping > > zkRun is something you only use in trivial setups like the examples in the > SolrCloud tutorial to run zookeeper embedded in Solr. if you are running > a production cluster where you want to be able to add/remove solr nodes on > the fly, then you are going to want to set of specific machines running > standalone zookeper. > > : > > -DzkHost=localhost:9983,localhost:8574,localhost:9900 -DnumShards=2 > > zkHost can be specified in solr.xml (allthough i'm not sure why the > example solr.xml doesn't include it, i'll update SOLR-4622 to address > this), or it can be overridden by a system property. > > > -Hoss > -- Web: http://www.eddgrant.com Email: e...@eddgrant.com Mobile: +44 (0) 7861 394 543
