[jboss-dev-forums] [Management Development] - To scope or not to scope (domain.xml)

[Scott Stark]

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"To scope or not to scope (domain.xml)"

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> Brian Stansberry wrote:
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> Since we're in the mode of defining things, what is a "multi-domain notion?"  I see it as a an ability to manage within the same tool multiple sets of servers where each set has it's own management policy. The sets of servers are conceptually distinct (hence the separate management policy / domain) but, generally for operational ease of use reasons, users wish to manage multiple domains from the same tool.
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Right, which is why I don't see this as impacting what the domain.xml looks like. This notion exists above the servers and profileservice. We are told what domain we are operating in.

> The "server-group" notion is the collection of unclustered servers. So in the simple case of a domain that's a collection of a homogenous set of unclustered servers, we'd just be requiring a bit more XML.
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> I can see having a capability to deploy to a domain as a convenience, but it can get conceptually messy.
> > We need to keep a clear separation between configuration and provisioning.
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> Agreed, but not sure what you were getting at here. Were we mixing them?
I see deploying to a domain as both a configuration of a profile at the domain level, and a runtime operation of pushing content out to all servers. I see it can be messy if the deployment impacts clustered services. If we have any hope of getting the domain.xml function in AS6, we need to separate getting a server to be driven by a domain.xml from how the provisioning would happen.

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