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The NCI LexEVS Data Packaging and Deployment Utility is a utility primarily intended to ease the manual process of packing and publishing LexEVS 5.1 data from environment to environment or from development tier to anotherenvironment (environment here refers to software development tiers such as Quality Assurance). In general, LexEVS 5.1 data is loaded in to a LexEVS 5.1 environment using the LexEVS 5.1 loader and using this the LexEVS Data Packaging and Deployment utility it is possible to package said the loaded data for deployment and to then to deploy said data to other LexEVS 5.1 environments. Updates of the associated "metadata.xml", "registry.xml" and Lucene index files are handled automatically by this utility. This utility will also handles handle the removal of selected terminologies from target environments.

Usage Information

The NCI LexEVS Data Packaging and Deployment Utility contains two separate executable files, the first one being "package.sh" which invokes a Java executable which is able to process user packaging commands (an instruction set) for the purpose of creating a "deployment" package. The user is able to select which terminologies are to be deployed and which terminologies are to be removed using the "package.sh" utility. The second, "deploy.sh" invokes a Java executable that is able to read the previously created package and to deploy it to a target environment.

Technical Overview

The NCI LexEVS Data Packaging and Deployment Utility is written as a Java command line application following the standard Unix command line syntax and base on NCI BDA-Lite. NCI BDA-Lite is a light weight application build and deployment library enabling developers to easily incorporate common software development tasks such as application server configuration and web application deployment via custom Apache Ant Task(s). In addition, the BDA-Lite Java API allows developers to execute deployment tasks outside of the Apache Ant environment via plain Java applications such as with the NCI LexEVS Data Packaging and Deployment Utility.

Below is a listing of the instruction set for both the packaging and deployment utilities:

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• (H)elp - Display a listing of all available commands.
• (L)ist - Displays a numbered listing of available terminologies (for packaging) from the source environment. The source environment is determined by the value of property "master_lbconfig" in file "package.properties". Please see EVS:package.properties for available packaging properties.
• (S)elect # - Selects terminology '#' to be packaged.
• (U)nselect # - Unselects terminology ‘#’ from the list of terminologies to be packaged.
• (R)emove # - Selects terminology ‘#’ to be removed from the target environments if it exists there.
• (P)ack - Perform the packaging of the selected terminologies.
• (I)nfo - Display information from the current property files.
• (B)inaries - Used in S/W development. A tool that deploys the executables. Can be ignored by the user.
• (C)lear - Clears the console by writing a bunch of blank lines.
• (Q)uit - Exits the utility.

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• (H)elp - Display a listing of all available commands.
• (DF) DeployFiles
• (DD) DeployDatabase,
• (L)ist - Displays a numbered listing of the terminologies that have been packaged and or the terminologies to be removed. This utility determines the list by reading the contents of the publish directory as pointed to by the value of property "publish_dir" in file "deploy.properties". Please see EVS:deploy.properties for available deployment properties.
• (I)nfo - Display information from the current property files.
• (C)lear - Clears the console by writing a bunch of blank lines.
• (Q)uit - Exits the utility.

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Example file:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Package Properties:                                                  #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#

### Lexevs file locations (master)
master_lbconfig=/mnt/lexevs/5.1/resources/config/lbconfig.props
publish_dir=/mnt/lexevs/5.1/lexevsdata51

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target_url_0=http://localhost:8080/mylexapplication/

Example file:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Deploy Properties:                                                   #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#

### Lexevs file locations (master)
target_lbconfig=/local/lexevs51/resources/config/lbconfig.props
publish_dir=/mnt/lexevsdata51

### Deployment
ssh.key.file=/local/home/user/ssh-keys/id_dsa_bda

### JBoss Server Information (Max of 10 servers)

target_url_0=http://server:8080/lexevsapi51
target_server_0=server
target_user_0=jbossuser
target_start_jboss_path_0=/usr/local/jboss/server/default/bin/start_jboss
target_stop_jboss_path_0=/usr/local/jboss/server/default/bin/stop_jboss

target_url_1=http://server1:8080/lexevsapi51
target_server_1=server1
target_user_1=jbossuser
target_start_jboss_path_1=/usr/local/jboss/server/default/bin/start_jboss
target_stop_jboss_path_1=/usr/local/jboss/server/default/bin/stop_jboss

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Install the NCI LexEVS Data Packaging and Deployment Utility

<Work in progress>

Additional Notes

Stopping/starting Jboss

JBoss servers are stopped/started via SSH by invoking the JBoss start_jboss and stop_jboss scripts (as defined in deploy.properties). Up to 10 JBoss servers can be stopped and started this way.
(Stopping/starting of application servers can be disabled using ‘'-r’ r' option on deploy.sh)

Checking if Jboss has started

The deploy app checks the web applications JBoss URL to see if it has started. See EVS:deploy.properties for details.

Example packaging of terminology:

1. Change to the directory where package.sh has been installed
2. Type package.sh <enter>
3. Type L <enter>
(This lists the terminologies loaded in DEV)
4. Type S # <enter>
(Where # is the number of the terminology in the list)
(This selects the terminology to be packaged)
5. Type p <enter>
(This packs the terminologies selected)
6. Type q <enter>
(Exits the packaging app)

Example database and file system deployment.

1. Change to the directory where deploy.sh has been installed
2. Type deploy.sh <enter>
3. Type L <enter>
(This lists the contents of the package)
4. Type dd <enter>
(This runs the database portion of the deployment)
5. Type df <enter>
(This runs the application portion of the deployment)
6. Type q <enter>
(Exits the deployment application)