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Environment Variables


The XAP environment configuration is maintained by a configuration script file called setenv, located in the XAP_HOME/bin directory. It is recommended to use the setenv utility to derive the commonly used XAP libraries and setup environment. To use this utility, you simply need to call it from within your script file.

The following list describes commonly used variables which are defined in this script:

Name Description Default Value
JAVA_HOME The directory in which Java is installed
XAP_HOME The GigaSpaces XAP home directory Automatically set via the folder structure
XAP_LOOKUP_GROUPS Lookup Service groups used for multicast discovery xap-12.1.0
XAP_LOOKUP_LOCATORS Lookup Service Locators used for unicast discovery
XAP_NIC_ADDRESS The network interface card which will be used by XAP Automatically set to the host name
XAP_SECURITY_POLICY The default policy file. XAP_HOME/policy/policy.all
XAP_LOGS_CONFIG_FILE The location of XAP logging configuration XAP_HOME/config/log/xap_logging.properties
XAP_GSC_OPTIONS Java options for the Grid Service Container (GSC)
XAP_GSM_OPTIONS Java options for the Grid Service Manager (GSM)
XAP_GSA_OPTIONS Java options for the Grid Service Agent (GSA)
XAP_LUS_OPTIONS Java options for the Lookup Service (LUS)
XAP_ESM_OPTIONS Java options for the Elastic Service Manager (ESM)

Overriding Default Values

During initial development and usage of XAP there’s usually no need to change any of the default values, but at some point you’ll probably want to change some of them (e.g. the Grid Service Container heap size).

Note

It is highly recommended not to make those changes in the original setenv script, as it complicates upgrading XAP later on. Instead, XAP provides an additional empty script called setenv-overrides, which is automatically called by setenv, and is intended for users to specify their overrides in a safe manner.

Upgrading From Previous Versions

In previous versions, environment variable names were inconsistent, which occasionally led to confusion. Starting with XAP 11.0, all XAP related environment variables have been renamed to have a XAP_ prefix, so they’re easier to identify. The following table maps the pre-11.0 names to the new names:

Name before 11.0 Name in 11.0
JSHOMEDIR XAP_HOME
LOOKUPGROUPS XAP_LOOKUP_GROUPS
LOOKUPLOCATORS XAP_LOOKUP_LOCATORS
NIC_ADDR XAP_NIC_ADDRESS
POLICY XAP_SECURITY_POLICY
GS_LOGGING_CONFIG_FILE XAP_LOGS_CONFIG_FILE
GSC_JAVA_OPTIONS XAP_GSC_OPTIONS
GSM_JAVA_OPTIONS XAP_GSM_OPTIONS
GSA_JAVA_OPTIONS XAP_GSA_OPTIONS
LUS_JAVA_OPTIONS XAP_LUS_OPTIONS
ESM_JAVA_OPTIONS XAP_ESM_OPTIONS
Note

If you’d rather postpone or avoid changing your scripts to the new names, you can use the new setenv-overrides script to map the corresponding values. For example, suppose in the past you’ve needed to override the default lookup groups and the GSC options. If you’ve followed the best practices, you probably created a custom script to set those environment variables before calling the original script, something like:

export LOOKUPGROUPS=foo
export GSC_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m
./gs-agent.sh
set LOOKUPGROUPS=foo
set GSC_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m
call gs-agent.bat

The gs-agent script calls the setenv script to setup the environment, which in turn calls the setenv-overrides script mentioned above to allow users to override the default values. You can modify setenv-overrides to propagate the old variables to the new ones, for example:

export XAP_LOOKUP_GROUPS=$LOOKUPGROUPS
export XAP_GSC_OPTIONS=$GSC_JAVA_OPTIONS
set XAP_LOOKUP_GROUPS=%LOOKUPGROUPS%
set XAP_GSC_OPTIONS=%GSC_JAVA_OPTIONS%