App Fabric Cache Configuration Scripts

1. Script to Update the Max Buffer Size of AppFabric Cache

AppFabric Cache has a default max buffer size of 8MB. There are certain scenario where we may need this to modify to satisfy our requirements Find below the script to configure the AppFabric Cache Buffer Size. Script below can be used to increase or decrease this preconfigured size.

#Command Line powershell ./UpdateAppFabricCacheBufferSize.ps1 15000000 

#Manual Step before we run any script on Poweshell : Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Param([int]$maxBufferSize)   

Import-Module DistributedCacheAdministration, DistributedCacheConfiguration   

Function UpdateBufferSizeInConfig ([string]$configFilename, [int]$maxBufferSize) 

{     

    $xml = New-Object XML     

    $xml.Load($configFilename)     

    $transportProperties = $xml.configuration.dataCache.advancedProperties.transportProperties     

    if ($transportProperties -eq $NULL) 

    {       

        $transportProperties = $xml.CreateElement("transportProperties")     

    }     

    $transportProperties.SetAttribute("maxBufferSize", "$maxBufferSize")     

    $xml.configuration.dataCache.advancedProperties.appendChild($transportProperties)     

    $xml.Save($configFilename) 

}   

$tempConfigLocation = "c:\config.xml"  

Use-CacheCluster

Export-CacheClusterConfig -File $tempConfigLocation  

UpdateBufferSizeInConfig $tempConfigLocation $maxBufferSize  

Stop-CacheCluster

Import-CacheClusterConfig -File $tempConfigLocation -Force

Start-CacheCluster

2. Script to configure the Named Cache and than Add Users in allowed client account list.

#To add a name cahce and windows account to the Cluster.

function CreateNewCache([string]$NewCacheName)

{

    New-Cache -CacheName $NewCacheName -Secondaries 1 -Force

    write-host "Name Cache $NewCacheName is created" -foregroundcolor green

    write-host "The cache config info :" -foregroundcolor green

    Get-CacheConfig $NewCacheName

}

function AddUser([string]$DomainnameUsername)

{

    Grant-CacheAllowedClientAccount -Account "$DomainnameUsername"

    write-host "$DomainnameUsername is added" -foregroundcolor green

    write-host "The list of AllowedClientAccounts below:" -foregroundcolor green

    Get-CacheAllowedClientAccounts

}

Write-host "Number of Arguments :" $args.Length;

if($args.Length -gt 1)

{

    CreateNewCache($args[0])

    AddUser($args[1])

}

if($args.Length -eq 1)

{

    if($args[0] -like "*\*")

    {

        AddUser($args[0])

    }

    else

    {

        CreateNewCache($args[0])

    }

}

Both the scripts provided above are very simple to understand and use through poweshell command line, and used for very specific operation. You can enhance these scripts to even configure advanced settings of Windows AppFabric.