#Deployment

Hi, Community!

Consider you move data from one server to another or make a deployment with persistent data. What do you do with index globals?

Is it always better to rebuild them or there are some cases when it worth to take them too?

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">

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</Production>

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)

I just deployed my production from test to acceptance but I found that the deployment misses some Soap Webclient classes which are used by my business operation components. I have used the management portal to create the deployment (i.e. production settings -> Export) and I expected that all classes used by the production were automatically included. Apparantly, that is not the case. Is this default behaviour for Ensemble? And can I somehow force Ensemble to automatically include these classes? I now have to manually select these operations to add them to the export and that is an error prone

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\"

Hi, Community!

Consider I have ResourceA which is used by role RoleA in dev environment and want to deploy it with the solution on a target system.

Would you please share the best practices to make it?

Thank you in advance!

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.

Does anyone know of a utility to compare two databases (i.e., CACHE.DAT files) and find globals/subscripts that are different between them?

If not, I'll write one and share it. 

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

What is the best way of importing new class files (.CLS) that Git has placed in my Atelier project folder?

I need to be able to do it from the command prompt as I want to script it.

Fred

Configuring an Ensemble production can be a challenging task involving a thorough understanding of the system and production functionality and a detailed understanding towards each configuration item. After successfully configured an Ensemble production, you might need to set up an identical production on the mirror environment, or deploy the production on a development system to a live system, or send a copy for diagnostic/debug purposes. Other times you might have spent some time designing a BPL/DTL and some other productions can use the same logic. In these cases, Ensemble exports and

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.

Please let me know the Configuration management tools that can be integrated with InterSystems....

How to integrate the Config management tool with InterSystems.. Please let know the steps

Hi All,

Am attempting to run sample unit tests as per

 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>

Hello comrades! I started using DeepSee Cube Registry, but i don't know how to move and deploy it to another server. Please tell me how do it.

I've got an issue trying to write a code which should add some global mapping to already existing namespace. Here is its skeleton: 

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: 

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.

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 3^rd 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.

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. 

Learn how to push an application to both an iOS and an Android device.

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?