Configuration Options

Designate specific

Parameter	Default	Note
api_host	0.0.0.0	API listen host
api_port	9001	API listen port
control_exchange	designate	The MQ Control exchange
agent_topic	agent	The topic that the Agent(s) should use
central_topic	central	The topic that the Central should use
os-username	glance	Username to use for openstack service access
os-password	admin	Password to use for openstack service access
os-tenant-id		Tenant ID to use for openstack service access
os-tenant-name	admin	Tenant name to use for openstack service access
os-auth-url	http://localhost:5000/v2.0	Auth URL to use for openstack service access
database_connection	sqlite:///$pystatepath/designate.db	Database connection string

Storage - SQL Alchemy

Parameter	Default	Note
connection_debug	0	Verbosity of SQL debugging information. 0=None, 100=Everything
connection_trace	False	Add python stack traces to SQL as comment strings
idle_timeout	3600	timeout before idle sql connections are reaped
max_retries	10	maximum db connection retries during startup. (setting -1 implies an infinite retry count)
retry_interval	10	interval between retries of opening a sql connection
mysql_engine	InnoDB	MySQL engine to use
sqlite_synchronous	True	If passed, use synchronous mode for sqlite

Backend - General

Parameter	Default	Note
some_opt	Insert something	Insert something

Backend - Bind9

Parameter	Default	Note
rndc_path	/usr/sbin/rndc	RNDC Path
rndc_host	127.0.0.1	RNDC Host
rndc_port	953	RNDC Port
rndc_config-file	None	RNDC Config File
rndc_key-file	None	RNDC Key File

Handler - General

Parameter	Default	Note
domain_id	None	The domain ID to use

Handler - Nova *

Parameter	Default	Note
notification_topics	monitor	Notification Topics
control_exchange	nova	Nova Control Exchange
domain_id	None	UUID of a domain/zone where records are to be created/deleted
format	None	you can use any field in the notification message, compute.instance.create.end, eg: format = ‘%(octet0)s-%(octet1)s-%(octet2)s-%(octet3)s.%(domain)s’ format = ‘%(display_name)s.%(domain)s’

General options

The following is the list of openstack-common options that we use:

Parameter	Default	Note
default_notification_level	INFO	Default notification level for outgoing notifications
default_publisher_id	$host	Default publisher_id for outgoing notifications
bind_host	0.0.0.0	IP address to listen on
bind_port	9001	Port numver to listen on
port	5672	Rabbit MQ port to liste on
fake_rabbit	False	If passed, use a fake RabbitMQ provider
publish_errors	False	publish error events
use_stderr	True	Log output to standard error
logfile_mode	0644	Default file mode used when creating log files
logdir		Log output to a per-service log file in named directory
logfile		Log output to a named file
default_log_levels	[‘amqplib=WARN’,sqlalchemy=WARN,...]	Default log level per components
notification_topics	[‘notifications’, ]	AMQP topic used for openstack notifications
enabled_apis	[‘ec2’, ‘osapi_compute’]	List of APIs to enable by default
verbose	False	Print more verbose output
debug	False	Print debugging output
state_path	currentdir	Top-level directory for maintaining nova state
sqlite_db	nova.sqlite	file name for sqlite
matchmaker_ringfile	/etc/designate/matchmaker_ring.json	Matchmaker ring file (JSON)
rpc_zmq_bind_address	‘*’	ZeroMQ bind address
rpc_zmq_matchmaker	designate.openstack.common.rpc. matchmaker.MatchMakerLocalhost	MatchMaker drivers
rpc_zmq_port	9501	ZeroMQ receiver listening port
rpc_zmq_port_pub	9502	ZeroMQ fanout publisher port
rpc_zmq_contexts	1	Number of ZeroMQ contexts
rpc_zmq_ipc_dir	/var/run/openstack	Directory for holding IPC sockets
rabbit_port	5672	The RabbitMQ broker port where a single node is used
rabbit_host	localhost	The RabbitMQ broker address where a single node is used
rabbit_hosts	[‘$rabbit_host:$rabbit_port’]	The list of rabbit hosts to listen to
rabbit_userid	guest	the RabbitMQ userid
rabbit_password	guest	the RabbitMQ password
rabbit_virtual_host	/	the RabbitMQ virtual host
rabbit_retry_interval	1	how frequently to retry connecting with RabbitMQ
rabbit_retry_backoff	2	how long to backoff for between retries when connecting
rabbit_max_retries	0	maximum retries with trying to connect to RabbitMQ (the default of 0 implies an infinite retry count)
rabbit_durable_queues	False	use durable queues in RabbitMQ
rabbit_use_ssl	False	connect over SSL for RabbitMQ
rabbit_durable_queues	False	use durable queues in RabbitMQ
rabbit_ha_queues	False	use H/A queues in RabbitMQ (x-ha-policy: all).
kombu_ssl_version		SSL version to use (valid only if SSL enabled)
kombu_ssl_keyfile		SSL key file (valid only if SSL enabled)
kombu_ssl_certfile		SSL cert file (valid only if SSL enabled)
kombu_ssl_ca_certs		SSL certification authority file
qpid_hostname	localhost	Qpid broker hostname
qpid_port	5672	Qpid broker port
qpid_username		Username for qpid connection
qpid_password		Password for qpid connection
qpid_sasl_mechanisms		Space separated list of SASL mechanisms to use for auth
qpid_reconnect_timeout	0	Reconnection timeout in seconds
qpid_reconnect_limit	0	Max reconnections before giving up
qpid_reconnect_interval_min	0	Minimum seconds between reconnection attempts
qpid_reconnect_interval_max	0	Maximum seconds between reconnection attempts
qpid_reconnect_interval	0	Equivalent to setting max and min to the same value
qpid_heartbeat	60	Seconds between connection keepalive heartbeats
qpid_protocol	tcp	Transport to use, either ‘tcp’ or ‘ssl’
qpid_reconnect	True	Automatically reconnect
qpid_tcp_nodelay	True	Disable Nagle algorithm
rpc_backend	kombu	The messaging module to use, defaults to kombu.
rpc_thread_pool_size	64	Size of RPC thread pool
rpc_conn_pool_size	30	Size of RPC connection pool
rpc_response_timeout	60	Seconds to wait for a response from call or multicall
rpc_cast_timeout	30	Seconds to wait before a cast expires (TTL). Only supported by impl_zmq.