Tee Filter

Overview

The tee filter is a "plumbing" fitting in the MariaDB MaxScale filter toolkit. It can be used in a filter pipeline of a service to make copies of requests from the client and send the copies to another service within MariaDB MaxScale.

Please Note: Starting with MaxScale 2.2.0, any client that connects to a service which uses a tee filter will require a grant for the loopback address, i.e. 127.0.0.1.

Configuration

The configuration block for the TEE filter requires the minimal filter parameters in its section within the MaxScale configuration file. The service to send the duplicates to must be defined.

[DataMartFilter]
type=filter
module=tee
service=DataMart

[Data-Service]
type=service
router=readconnroute
servers=server1
user=myuser
password=mypasswd
filters=DataMartFilter

Filter Parameters

The tee filter requires a mandatory parameter to define the service to replicate statements to and accepts a number of optional parameters.

match, exclude and options

These regular expression settings limit the queries replicated by the tee filter.

match=/insert.*into.*order*/
exclude=/select.*from.*t1/
options=case,extended

source

The optional source parameter defines an address that is used to match against the address from which the client connection to MariaDB MaxScale originates. Only sessions that originate from this address will be replicated.

source=127.0.0.1

user

The optional user parameter defines a user name that is used to match against the user from which the client connection to MariaDB MaxScale originates. Only sessions that are connected using this username are replicated.

user=john

Module commands

Read Module Commands documentation for details about module commands.

The tee filter supports the following module commands.

tee disable [FILTER]

This commmad disables a tee filter instance. A disabled tee filter will not send any queries to the target service.

tee enable [FILTER]

Enable a disabled tee filter. This resumes the sending of queries to the target service.

Examples

Example 1 - Replicate all inserts into the orders table

Assume an order processing system that has a table called orders. You also have another database server, the datamart server, that requires all inserts into orders to be replicated to it. Deletes and updates are not, however, required.

Set up a service in MariaDB MaxScale, called Orders, to communicate with the order processing system with the tee filter applied to it. Also set up a service to talk to the datamart server, using the DataMart service. The tee filter would have as it’s service entry the DataMart service, by adding a match parameter of "insert into orders" would then result in all requests being sent to the order processing system, and insert statements that include the orders table being additionally sent to the datamart server.

[Orders]
type=service
router=readconnroute
servers=server1, server2, server3, server4
user=massi
password=6628C50E07CCE1F0392EDEEB9D1203F3
filters=ReplicateOrders

[ReplicateOrders]
type=filter
module=tee
service=DataMart
match=insert[   ]*into[     ]*orders

[DataMart]
type=service
router=readconnroute
servers=datamartserver
user=massi
password=6628C50E07CCE1F0392EDEEB9D1203F3
filters=QLA-DataMart

[QLA-DataMart]
type=filter
module=qlafilter
options=/var/log/DataMart/InsertsLog

[Orders-Listener]
type=listener
service=Orders
protocol=MariaDBClient
port=4011

[DataMart-Listener]
type=listener
service=DataMart
protocol=MariaDBClient
port=4012