Configuration management system and method

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of communication and internet, in particular to a configuration management system and method. According to the system and the method, after updated configuration information is set by a CMCS (configuration management center system), the CMCS is started and the configuration information is incrementally registered to a registry by a configmanager, a CMCS client and the registry automatically and asynchronously push updated configuration information meeting screening principles to the CMCS client and unload the information to a configuration file according to established subscription relations and preset screening principles, and an APP function unit reads updated data in the configuration file to finish updating operation of the APP; besides, when the CMCS service is halted, the APP can still work according to the configuration information stored in the configuration file, that is, according to the improved system and method, the system management is automatic, the updating timeliness is high, the operation is simple, and the client is still available when the configuration service is halted.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the fields of communication and Internet, in particular to a system and method for managing configuration. Background technique [0002] At present, the operation of APP software needs to rely on a lot of configuration information such as database connection configuration, upload file storage path, and the upper limit of concurrent requests per second. However, due to different systems, different machines and different customers, the same APP software The configuration will be different, so the above configuration information is generally set outside the main program. [0003] figure 1 It is a schematic diagram of the module structure of traditional APP software; figure 1 As shown, the APP software includes functional units for realizing various functions, configuration management components and configuration files, and the configuration files are set outside the APP main module (ie binary program); in the actual operation pr...

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[0005] 1), the management of configuration files will be time-consuming and cumbersome

Since the above-mentioned configuration file is stored on the machine where the APP is located, and how many APPs have the same physical location, there will be as many copies of the corresponding configuration file, which will make the configuration file relatively large; for example, if an APP (i.e. application) Deployed on 1,000 machines, there will be 1,000 configuration files correspondingly. When many APPs are applied on thousands of machines at the same time, the configuration files will be very large, which is not conducive to management. It will also be very time-consuming to distinguish the correspondence between the application and the configuration file in the configuration file

[0006] 2) The configuration file is changed to enable, and the timeliness is poor

When the configuration file is configured before the APP starts, the APP does not need to be restarted, and when the configuration file changes after the system starts, the APP must be restarted to use the latest configuration file, but the restart process of the APP usually takes a long time Time (generally tens of seconds to half an hour, or even longer), which makes the timeliness of APP poor

[0007] 3) Changing the configuration file requires restarting the APP

See 2) It can be seen that during the process of updating the configuration file and restarting the APP (that is, during the period from the restart to the completion of the restart), the APP denies service to the outside world, and for Internet applications, many serious consequences will occur during the denial of service process (such as orders cannot be completed, users cannot register, etc.), resulting in loss of revenue and customers

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