The Queue Processor

Overview

The queue-processor.pl program runs as an ongoing process and monitor the SMF database for update tasks. When deployed to a standard OS image this is process is run as a systemd service. The necessary systemd configuration files are installed by the n2vs-svc package and are run on the backend-middleware (N2SVCD execution) environment for N2VS (not the GUI, frontend-middleware (Jarvis), or DB servers).

Note that as this process connects to the SMF database, the voucher database, and the backend service API over HTTP, this program can run from any suitable container or VM.

Running queue-processor.pl --help will show the program usage.

Command Line Options

The following common options may be specified when executing:

Option Type Default Description
--db-connect PSQL DB Connection String A Perl DBI PostgreSQL connection string. See PostgreSQL Connection Strings for more information.
--db-user String n2vs_owner The username of the user to connect to the PostgreSQL database instance with.
--db-password String The password for the user specified with --db-user to connect to the PostgreSQL database instance with.
--service-channel-code String deployment dependent The API code to use when communicating with the N2VS password. This must match a service channel configured in the SMF database.
--backend-url HTTP URL String http://n2vs-backend:8080/api/ The backend API URL to communicate with the N2VS N2SVCD backend API. For production installations this should be reconfigured to use a TLS load balancer.

Scalability

A single instance of this process is sufficiently efficient for all installations, however it is recommended at least two instances of this process are configured to execute on separate service nodes for redundancy.