#Deployment

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Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. 

Question Stuart Peters · Oct 23, 2017

The Installer Manifest has the option to modify the production level settings for AutoStart but is there a way to change settings such as ActorPoolSize and other settings? What would the format be to change such a setting to change the ActorPoolSize to 2?

<Production Name="MyProduction">

??????

</Production>

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Question Laura Cavanaugh · Oct 12, 2017

I'm trying to write an installer manifest that can create a namespace, resources (%DB_namespace) and a role (with the resource, above), based on the namespace.  So you could pass in "ABC", or "XYZ", and it would create the %DB_ABC resource and the ABC role with %DB_ABC:RW permissions; or it will create the %DB_XYZ resource and the XYZ role with %DB_XYZ:RW permissions, accordingly.

I have a variable set up for the name of the namespace (in my code it's called PMGNAMESPACE), and I create a variable for the resource name, called PMGDbResource ( this == %DB_ABC)

The installer manifest is not

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Article Alexey Maslov · Oct 9, 2017 1m read

If you have an app that uses some Caché client Windows components that are not included into CacheODBC distribution (e.g. CacheActiveX.dll), you need to proceed Caché client installation on end user's client computers and/or MS Terminal Servers. Being a part of Caché client's installation, Caché Cube is installed along with other components and is autostarted with every user's session. So, it becomes visible to every user.

To make it completely invisible, you can just move CACHE.lnk file from

"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\"

to some other (backup) folder (assuming

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Question Russell Knight · Aug 31, 2017

Greetings,

Is it possible to save Cache code into a file and then run it via command line?  

IE:  csession [ini] -U [ini] /path/cacheCodeFile.?

What I need to do is run a Cache script from the Linux command line.  The script will navigate data to produce a file and then it will exit back to the command line.

Thanks in advance for everyone's time.

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Question James Fitzpatrick · Jul 20, 2017

Hi all,

I'm exploring using installation manifests to deploy Ensemble configuration changes. I noticed that the documentation uses a macro within an "Error" tag.

<Error Status="$$$NamespaceDoesNotExist">

So I thought this would also be possible with "Var" tags, "If" tags, etc. For example:

<If Condition = "$$$isDevEnvironment">...

I wanted to use the same manifest file, but execute certain things on different environments, but it doesn't seem that this macro gets resolved in this case - I thought the code generation step of would handle this.

I understand that I can achieve the same with different

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Discussion Sebastian Mueller · Aug 8, 2017

I understand this is a rather broad topic (and at times involves religious sentiments) yet I would like to look at it from the Caché perspective:

  • Do you use an issue tracking / collaboration system? If so which one. Any you would recommend or immediately dismiss based on personal experience?
  • How do you keep track of large code bases? Thousdands of folders named backup1, backups2, ..., SVN, git?
  • Do you have a development server to which you commit and test features there, or do you rather run a local copy of caché and implement features locally first, then push to the server?
  • Bonus
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Question Greg Arnold · Feb 6, 2017

I am looking for a way to deploy production changes (code and/or production configs) via script or some other systematic way other than the Ensemble/Deploy page in the Management Portal. My goal is to store these configurations in Subversion, then have a piece that can pull the XML from source control and deploy it to a given server. Is there some kind of script that I can run on a given server to perform this deployment? If so, I can tie it up with Subversion using another tool that I have access to.

If it helps, we are running Cache 2016.1 (HealthShare 15.01) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Tha

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Question Gordon Hodgkinson · Apr 9, 2017

Hi All,

Am attempting to run sample unit tests as per

Caché %UnitTest Tutorial
Example: Executing a Test Using Set-Up and Tear Down Methods
 

 and getting an ERROR #5007:

The Terminal detail is as follows:

SAMPLES>Set ^UnitTestRoot="C:\UnitTests"                                        
SAMPLES>write ^UnitTestRoot
C:\UnitTests
SAMPLES>do ##class(%UnitTest.Manager).RunTest("MyTests")
 
ERROR #5007: Directory name '/usr/cachesys/mgr/samples/C:/UnitTests/MyTests/' is invalid
SAMPLES>

The '/usr/cachesys/mgr/samples/' part is the correct path for the namespace 'SAMPLES' and the

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Question Alexey Maslov · Mar 28, 2017

Due to a new project I'm getting involved inside %Installer stuff deeper than ever I'd be happy to. Most of it was pretty easy to get, thanks to documentation, articles and SAMPLES example, while I can't dig good solution for one problem. I'm trying to import and compile some classes, willing to ignore two types of errors: 5202 (NothingToCompile) and 5373 (PredecessorClassDoesNotExist - a normal case when SNMP sampling class is compiled for the 1st time, before it was registered). 

I've tried the following: 

<If Condition='#{##class(%File).Exists("${AddonDir}/AddClasses.xml")}'><Import File=
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Article John Murray · Mar 2, 2017 1m read

As more people join Developer Community, and with increasing efforts to promote code sharing, I'd like to draw fresh attention to this post I wrote a year ago. It spotlights a feature within the class compiler which is both useful and dangerous. When importing code (e.g. from an XML export of classes received from someone), it's worth considering the risks.

Even if that post doesn't seem relevant to you at the moment you may wish to note it for the future. A handy way of doing this is to click the star icon at the end of it.

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Article Timur Safin · Feb 2, 2017 19m read
This is the second part of my long post about package managers in operating systems and language distributions. Now, hopefully, we have managed to convince you that convenient package manager and rich 3rd party code repository is one key factor in establishing of a vibrant and fast growing ecosystem. (Another possible reason for ecosystem success is the consistent language design, but it will be topic for another day.)

In this second part we plan to discuss the practical aspects of creating a package manager in general and their projection to the Caché database environment.

Let assume we want

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Article Nikita Savchenko · May 6, 2016 8m read

Greetings! This article describes yet another simple way of creating installers for the solutions based on InterSystems Caché. The topic covers applications, which can be installed or completely removed from Caché with one action only. If you are still documenting installation instructions that have more than one step to do to install your application — it’s high time you automated this process. 

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Question Scott Beeson · Feb 4, 2016

I'm working on a proposal for a deployment tool development project and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with such a thing.  

We use Healthshare and implementations for new clients are tedius and lengthy.  Lots of ensemble service, registry value, lookup tables, namespaces and other things have to be created and configured. 

I would like to create a Zen or CSP page based deployment tool that can do all this with a few parameters and some custom code.

Has anyone done this?  What are some pitfalls you ran into?  Any unique ideas you included?  Other general thoughts?

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