Re: How to enable multiple cruise control servers co-work?

Hi Allen,
I admit, it took me a bit of tinkering to get everything working right 
too.  I also found myself jumping around a lot on the how-to page.

I'm attaching a section of my 'supplemental' CC manual that I've been 
writing for my office.  Hopefully the list will accept an attachment.  
Essentially, the manual's just a knowledge dump of how my office uses CC 
and our various naming conventions and what-not.  I wrote this section 
right after setting up my distributed system.  Each section in the 
attached doc corresponds to a section on the web site, so hopefully, 
it's relatively easy to move between them.  There may be some parts that 
are a little confusing because of the way I've implemented CC as a 
Windows service, but hopefully that won't bog you down.  I also had a 
really hard time setting up the Linux service.  I think that had more to 
do with me not really knowing what I was trying to do than anything CC 
related.  It sounds like you already have Linux CC services though, so 
hopefully you'll be able to breeze through that part.

Good luck,
Leigh



on 1/12/2010 9:50 PM Richard wrote:
> Hi Leigh,
> Thanks for your infomation. I try to do as the document says. But the 
> document just give very high level message. Do you any more detail 
> document. Below is the steps I try to do. Would you please take a look?
> 1. Download the source code and enter ..\cruisecontrol\contrib\
> 2. Run ant to build the plugin.
> 3. Download the binary version.
> 4. Change the config.xml. adding
> <plugin name="distributed" 
> classname="net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.builders.DistributedMasterBuilder"/>. 
>
>
> But i don't know how to connect the distributed to the installed 
> verion of the CC.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Allen
>
> 2010/1/8 Leigh Moulder <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>     Hi Allen,
>     I think there are a couple of ways you could tackle this.
>
>     I was able to setup a similar build environment where I had one
>     'master' build server that was controlling multiple other build
>     servers.  In my case, the master was a Windows machine, while the
>     other build servers were various flavors of Linux.  I  was able to
>     configure everything using the 'distributed' extensions found in
>     the contrib directory.  Instructions can be found at:
>     http://cruisecontrol.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cruisecontrol/trunk/cruisecontrol/documentation/distributed/index.html.
>
>     The nice thing with this route was that I could actually control
>     all the builds from the master build server, and I knew exactly
>     what each one was doing.  I was also able to setup some tricky
>     build scenarios where one of the Linux builds (the one that took
>     the longest) would only build if the Windows build was
>     successful.  The downside was that it took me a couple of days to
>     get everything working and configured the way I wanted.
>
>     But if you wanted something faster, and that only provided status
>     reports, then you should be able to use the ftppublisher or scp
>     publisher.  I think you'll just need to copy the files from your
>     client machines to your master machine's log directory, being sure
>     to create a new sub-directory for each of these client projects.
>
>     Leigh
>
>
>
>     on 1/7/2010 1:19 AM Richard wrote:
>>
>>     Our product support 4 UNIX platforms and windows. Each one has
>>     its cruise control to do build control. As there exist 5 servers,
>>     I need go to each one and check the build status or build error
>>     issue.
>>
>>     1. *Can I use one of them as central server (A) and others as
>>     client (B, C, D, and E)?* The client send build result to the
>>     central server? So I can get the build status of all the platforms?
>>
>>     2. Is there any internal communication protocol or tools to
>>     enable this feature? And How to config it?
>>
>>     3. One way I know is to use ftp publisher, each client send build
>>     result to the server, write another program on the server machine
>>     to get the overall status of all platforms. But it is not very
>>     straightforward. Any idea is welcome. Thanks.
>>     Allen
>>
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