Dump active configuration

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Francisco Morales

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Nov 18, 2025, 5:53:27 AM (3 days ago) Nov 18
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Hi all, 

I was wondering if there is an easy way to see the current active configuration that irods is using. I imagine a command that can show the config contained in the server_config.json file and the core.re rules file. This is useful when we are in doubt if any change in those files is currently used the the irods process, without the need to restart the process. Thanks!

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Francisco Morales

John Constable

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Nov 18, 2025, 6:36:00 AM (3 days ago) Nov 18
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Hi Francisco,

The izonereport might be able to help here - it dumps the enitre zone config including those config files to a JSON dump, and it does this for every server in a zone.

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John

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Alan King

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Nov 18, 2025, 11:54:55 AM (3 days ago) Nov 18
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Hi Francisco,

What John suggested is correct. The zone report will return the contents of the server_config.json and core.re files.

It might be interesting to have servers generate a report based on the configuration / rulebases in the running server as it may differ from what is in the files, as Francisco said. Could make detecting differences easier.

Alan



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John Constable

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Nov 19, 2025, 4:13:15 AM (2 days ago) Nov 19
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If its any help, I have just run izonereport on a 4.3.4 system, then modified the file, then reran izonereport and it showed the updated information.

I believe that the behaviour of iRODS has changed over the year with regard to when/which it reads the config files, but my understanding is that every new rodsAgent reads the configuration files on every new process. So currently running connections will still have the old information but anything new gets the updated values.

I am not sure how true this is of the core.re and similar files however - at one point they were only read at server startup, but I believe that behaviour was changes, although I can't pin point a version, although Alan and team might know.

What scenarios are you looking to cover?

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John

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