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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 August 2011 11:40, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <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
>