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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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 <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>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 <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 18 August 2011 13:56, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On 8/18/11, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> 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