Steps
Preparation work
- (Jan 30, 2009) Kirk, Create the template for guest type with an altered workspace to prevent membership, resources, worksite set up and ???
- (Jan 30, 2009) Kirk, Create the Guest Access site
- Select the following tools: Home, Site Info
- Site cannot be joined by anybody
- Add .anon role to site enabling site.visit function in the site's realm
During maintenance window
- (05:30 Thomas) Put smartsite into maintenance mode and shutdown Sakai on all 7 application servers
- (05:35 Joncarlo) Deploy SAK-2586 switch
- (05:35 Thomas) Deploy sakai_2-5-x-prod-010 tag on all 7 application servers via setup-sakai-node.sh
- (05:50 Thomas) Startup sakaiprod1
- Add Guest Registration tool via Admin's Site tool to the Guest Access site
- Record the url of the just added Guest Registration tool
- Stop Sakai on sakaiprod1
- Edit sakai.properties file: property guest.registration.tool.url
The property is of the following format: guest.registration.tool.url=http://smartsite.ucdavis.edu:8443/portal/site/<siteId>/page/<pageId>?toolstate-<toolId>= e.g. guest.registration.tool.url=https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu:8443/portal/site/fcb8657c-f611-4314-9f51-d4a3d90bf220/page/b9137edd-a08a-4606-9ebe-1f64caccab73?toolstate-4a2dc079-5254-4122-8978-2bae859edfb0=
- (06:00 Thomas) Run setup-sakai-node.sh on all 7 application servers
- (06:10 Thomas) Start Sakai on all 7 application nodes
- (06:15 TEAM) Verify Guest Access installation
- Create a project site
- Enable site.add.guests function for that site's maintain role
- Add guest to project site
- Register and activate guest
- (06:30 TEAM) Evaluate test results
- (06:50 Thomas) Take 7 application servers out of maintenance
Fall-back Procedure (If needed)
- In case the Guest Access test fails for some reason, we just won't enable the site.add.guests function on any sites