PortumberFileFormat.md

Portnumber file format

The file specified as portnumber_file in memcached.json contains a JSON object with the following format:

{
  "ports": [
    {
      "family": "inet",
      "host": "0.0.0.0",
      "port": 35273,
      "system": false,
      "tag": "plain",
      "tls": false,
      "type": "mcbp",
      "uuid": "c54e2ec2-277e-4531-87ad-3955cb4236c5"
    },
    {
      "family": "inet6",
      "host": "::",
      "port": 39369,
      "system": false,
      "tag": "plain",
      "tls": false,
      "type": "mcbp",
      "uuid": "cc480095-7e1c-4f24-f7c7-deb32f413076"
    },
    {
      "family": "inet",
      "host": "0.0.0.0",
      "port": 40385,
      "system": true,
      "tag": "TLS IPv4",
      "tls": true,
      "type": "mcbp",
      "uuid": "28ecaebb-8350-4bf6-f08f-58fadc6642a8"
    },
    {
      "family": "inet6",
      "host": "::",
      "port": 42441,
      "system": true,
      "tag": "TLS Ipv6",
      "tls": true,
      "type": "mcbp",
      "uuid": "5c3b9813-f58f-458e-f713-cf8db3aae18e"
    }
  ],
  "prometheus": {
    "family": "inet",
    "port": 43455
  }
}

ports contains an array of all ports the server listen to which supports the memcached binary protocol

prometheus contains an object describing the port providing support for prometheus stats collection.

Ports entry

• family may be inet (for IPv4) or inet6(for IPv6)
• host is the hostname the interface address port is bound to
• port is the port number it is bound to
• system if connections should be counted as system connections or user
• tag a free form name for the interface
• tls set to true if the port is configured to use TLS
• type should always be mcbp (memcached binary protocol)
• uuid a unique identifier for the port