On 19 August 2011 11:40, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the input - it has been very useful. I have come to realize > that this current setup should be considered temporary (until the end of the > year) and thinking&resources should probably now rather be dedicated towards > setting up two national production machines by the end of the year (one for > the national repository/dashboard, one for the HMIS), and these should align > as much as feasible with the description in the link Ola sent: > http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/implementer/html/ch08.html#d5e415
I see that this description stops short of describing the automatic startup and shutdown scripts. Does anyone have some good examples to contribute? > In fact, we already also have a Linode, so far with only 4 GB, but that can > of course be increased as needed. > Knut > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> dhis-live is not really designed to be run as a service and I wouldn't >> really recommend trying. Given that it has a user interaction element >> in the toolbar etc. Running as a service is sort of the opposite of >> its defining use case which is to have a minimally configured >> clickable app to run on a desktop. >> >> I think there are lots of tips on the web regarding running tomcat as >> a service. Also HISP India has some previous experience in running >> many tomcat's on a single windows server for different states. Maybe >> Bharath or John might chip in how they have set up the service. >> Assuming that is, that they ran tomcat as a windows service. Possibly >> they logged in and manually started and stopped them. >> >> I always find it interesting when looking at the merits of windows vs >> linux servers that the argument is usually given that windows is more >> familiar and the hurdle to move to linux is too great. But when one >> scrapes the surface it seems that windows server skills are actually >> very scarce. People think they understand windows server because it >> looks just like windows. But you'll actually find much more >> knowledgeable support in our community for setting up a >> dhis+tomcat+postgres+ubuntu. Just my two cents :-) >> >> Re displaying different text on hover, its not a bad idea, but not one >> that anyone is likely to prioritize immediately. Maybe create a >> blueprint so the idea is not lost. From a zero-configuration >> perspective there is not much to go on mind you. We have the options >> of server port, database name or dhis home directory to distinguish >> between them, but using something mangled from those would at least >> provide something. A more nicely named instance would require an >> additional config parameter or a small dialog on startup. >> >> Cheers >> Bob >> >> On 19 August 2011 11:06, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 18 August 2011 13:56, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On 8/18/11, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> As Ola pointed out, the remaining and important issue is the >> >> >> automated >> >> >> startup after a power cut. >> >> > >> >> > In fact, this is really easy, just place shortcuts to the two >> >> > dhis2-live.exe files in the Windows Startup folder: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Run-a-program-automatically-when-Windows-starts >> >> >> >> Are talking about startup or logging in? >> > >> > Good point - that method does require the manual step of going to the >> > machine and logging in. >> > >> > Ideally, we would create our own three services that start automagically >> > on >> > boot. Found the following link, but have not tried it yet: >> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192 >> > Knut >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Knut >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Cheers, >> > Knut Staring >> > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Knut Staring > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
