Fwd: Re: [AG-TECH] Disappearing venue definitions?

Michael Miller mimiller at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Jan 13 11:53:48 CST 2004


I meant for this to go to the list...

>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:12:09 -0600
>To: Randy Groves <randy.groves at boeing.com>
>From: Michael Miller <mimiller at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Disappearing venue definitions?
>
>Randy,
>
>I've seen this problem as well.  It usually means that the VenueServer.py 
>process couldn't find the config files.  There is an Environment variable 
>AGTK_USER which should point to the directory that contains all the AG 
>configuration stuff.  (ANL folks, correct me if this doesn't apply to the 
>VenueServer.py script)
>
>I solve this problem by making sure I always start the VenueServer.py in 
>the directory where the .dat and .cfg files are.  I'm guessing that's what 
>you did?  Did you start it under the same username as you had before?
>
>As for backups, I plan on maintaining a backup server for our Venues 
>Server when it goes production.  I'll use rsync to sync the directories so 
>they are always the same.  We also have a backup system for the entire machine.
>
>There is a BackupServer setting in the config file, but I've been informed 
>this will be made functional in a future release.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Michael Miller
>NCSA
>
>
>At 07:31 PM 1/12/2004, you wrote:
>>Has anyone else had this happen?  I've been running an AG 2.x Venue 
>>server for some time now.  I left it up over the holidays, but didn't 
>>actually check on whether it was responsive or not.  When I returned, I 
>>just assumed that it had gone to sleep, although it was still running 
>>(the BridgeServer was also up), so I restarted both.
>>
>>Lo and behold, when I attempted to connect to my venues, I find that they 
>>had all disappeared!  The venue server was back to it's default initial 
>>state.  There was no 'backup' in the VenueServer.dat.bak file - it was 
>>identical to the main .dat file.
>>
>>This has happened before, and those times, I figured it was something 
>>that I had done in fiddling with the configuration.  But definitely NOT 
>>this time.  There is nothing that is obvious in the logs.
>>
>>While my venue server is not enormous, re-entering is not a huge pain, 
>>but a pain, nevertheless.
>>
>>But this points up a fairly significant hole in the venue server workings 
>>- there is no way (that I know of) to back up the server, and if that was 
>>available, of restoring it if it is trashed.  I presume that if a version 
>>of the .dat file was available, it would be possible to manually restore 
>>the server, but I have not encountered the instructions for this process, 
>>if it exists.
>>
>>Oh, and BTW - I'd check Bugzilla for something like this, but it seems to 
>>be not answering its calls at the moment...
>>
>>-randy
>Thanx,
>
>Michael Miller
>System Engineer
>Visualization Technology Support
>Computing and Data Management
>National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>University of Illinois - UC
>217-649-0747
>
>"If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with 
>clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything 
>desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even 
>more." -Paul Debevec

Thanx,

Michael Miller
System Engineer
Visualization Technology Support
Computing and Data Management
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois - UC
217-649-0747

"If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with 
clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything 
desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even 
more." -Paul Debevec




More information about the ag-tech mailing list