Dear Gioacchino,

I've forwarded your question to the Orion developers, and they will
answer if it is possible to launch two Orion instances in the same VM or
not.

However, if you create two VMs with Orion in the same virtual network,
and assign a floating IP to one of them. You can simply add a forwarding
rule to the machine having the public IP address so that you can reach
the second orion instance (running in the VM with local address only)
through the public ip.

For that:
1. add the following iptables rules on the VM with public IP address:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1027 -j DNAT
--to-destination <private IP of the second orion vm>:1026
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1027 -j MASQUERADE

2. and enable packet forwarding:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

3. After that add a new security rule in the cloud portal so that port
1027 would be open.
After that the second Orion can be accessed on <public ip>:1027

Another option to use a proxy like PEPProxy or something similar on the
machine with public ip:
https://github.com/ging/fi-ware-pep-proxy

I hope it helps you,
Best,
Sandor

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Dear Fermin,

If you answer the question, please send your answer to gioakbombaci@gmail.com as well.

Thanks,
Best regards,
Sandor
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Replied by Ken on Dec,1 at 15:32
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Hi Gioacchino,

yes, you can have two instances of the orion context broker running in the same machine.
You need to be a little careful on how you start them though, e.g. they cannot both listen to the same port, obviously.
The listen port is chosen using the '-port' option.

The first instance of orion you can start without any options, just using the default values.
The second instance however, must be told to use different ports, paths etc, in order not to use the same stuff as the first instance.

You will want separate log files for the instances, this is fixed using the -logDir option
(just give one of them a directory != the default directory, which is '/tmp').

The file where the Process IDentifier is stored should also be changed for the second instance of orion. Option: -pidpath <path to pidfile>.
You probaly don't want the second instance attacking the same database as the first one: option: -db <name of database>.

So, an example on successfully running two brokers in the same machine:

$ contextBroker
$ contextBroker -db secondBroker -pidpath /tmp/secondBroker.pid -logDir /tmp/secondBroker -port 1099

[ The directory '/tmp/secondBroker' must exist and be writable ]
[ The mongo database named 'secondBroker' is created automatically ]

Good luck,

/KZ