[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

[Dan Wells]

Thanks Dan, this sounds good.

I am changing some config settings for notices at the moment, but will be sure to notify staff in other cases.

Dan

>>> On 1/7/2010 at 1:42 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> I don't think you can cause any data corrruption problems if you restart
> the system while it's in use, if that's what you're concerned about. Yay
> for relational databases and ACID properties!
> 
> Depending on why you're restarting it, though (say, if you're changing
> settings), staff should probably be advised to log out of their staff
> clients and log back on to refresh the settings that get pulled at log
> on time.
> 
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:29 -0500, Dan Wells wrote:
>> Hello Robert,
>> 
>> Thank you especially for pointing out the log maintenance page.  It sounds 
> like exactly what I need, and something I should certainly know about for 
> other reasons as well.
>> 
>> As far as causing service interruptions with a restart, we are just a single 
> library, and a restart takes only a matter of seconds.  Would I be overly 
> cavalier to not be concerned about an occasional daytime restart?
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> >>> On 1/7/2010 at 11:14 AM, "Soulliere, Robert"
>> <robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca> wrote:
>> > Hi Dan,
>> > 
>> > We try to avoid restarting the services during business hours, if at all 
>> > possible, since it causes service interruptions. I don't think there is 
> much 
>> > danger of information loss, but others here with more knowledge could give 
> a 
>> > more sure answer.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > For log rotation, I use the logrotate utility and scheme explained here:
>> > 
> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:maintenance:logs&s[] 
> =l 
>> > ogs
>> > 
>> > To minimize log size I also changed the log level settings in 
>> > opensrf_core.xml to "1" for all services to just capture errors in most 
> logs. 
>> > If I need more extensive troubleshooting. I set it higher.
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > Robert
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Robert Soulliere
>> > Systems Librarian
>> > robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca 
>> > Tel: 905-575-1212 X3936
>> > 
>> > Library at Mohawk
>> > Connect * Learn * Succeed
>> > brain.mohawkcollege.ca
>> > 
>> > 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org 
>> > [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan 
>> > Wells
>> > Sent: January 7, 2010 10:22 AM
>> > To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org 
>> > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions
>> > 
>> > Hello all,
>> > 
>> > Here are a few basic question for other Evergreen admins.
>> > 
>> > First, what is the relative safety of restarting the various major stack 
>> > components (router, Perl, C) during business hours?  Which, if any, are 
>> > likely to result in information loss?
>> > 
>> > Second, what is a good log rotation scheme?  Are certain log files more 
>> > valuable than others?  Does anyone have a good log rotation automation 
> setup 
>> > which they could share?
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dan
>> > 
>> > --
>> > 
>> > 
> ****************************************************************************
>> > *****
>> > Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst dbw2 at calvin.edu 
>> > Hekman Library at Calvin College
>> > 616.526.7133
>> > 
>> > 
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