Configuring EFM#

TPA will install and configure EFM when failover_manager is set to efm .

Note that EFM is only available via EDB’s package repositories and requires a valid subscription.

EFM configuration#

TPA will generate efm.nodes and efm.properties with the appropriate instance-specific settings, with remaining settings set to the respective default values. TPA will also place an efm.notification.sh script which basically contains nothing by default and leaves it up to the user to fill it in however they want. TPA will override the default settings for auto.allow.hosts and stable.nodes.file to simplify adding agents to the cluster.

See the EFM documentation

for more details on EFM configuration.

efm_user_password_encryption#

Must be either scram-sha-256 or md5

Set efm_user_password_encryption to control the auth-method for the efm Postgres user’s auth-method in pg_hba.conf as well as the algorithm used when generating it’s encrypted password.

efm_user_password_encryption: scram-sha-256 # or can be set to `md5`

efm_conf_settings#

You can use efm_conf_settings to set specific parameters. These must be written as entries in an Ansible dictionary, in key: value form

See the documentation on the `efm.properties file <Configuring EFM>`

for details on which settings can be configured.

cluster_vars:
  efm_conf_settings:
     notification.level: WARNING
     ping.server.ip: <well known address in network>

If you make changes to values under efm_conf_settings , TPA will always restart EFM to activate the changes.

EFM witness#

TPA will install and configure EFM as witness on instances whose role contains efm-witness .

Repmgr#

EFM works as a failover manager and therefore TPA will still install repmgr for setting up postgresql replicas on postgres versions 11 and below. repmgrd i.e. repmgr’s daemon remains disabled in this case and repmgr’s only job is to provided replication setup functionality.

For postgres versions 12 and above, any cluster that uses EFM will use pg_basebackup to create standby nodes and not use repmgr in any form.

Configuring EFM

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