/
Implementation Plan September 19, 2009

Implementation Plan September 19, 2009

Sept 19, 2009

Personnel

  • Programmer is Thomas Amsler

  • QC is Sandra

  • DBA is Prabhu

Preparation for production release

  • (Programmer) Ensure that gradebook 1 is stealthed in sakai.properties for prod

  • (Programmer) Ensure that letter grading is not turned on in sakai.properties for prod

  • (Programmer) Copy over sakai, gb2, and properties tags to non-release-candidate version

  • (Programmer) Export sakai.properties and toolOrder.xml from https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai-properties/tags/sakai-properties-2-5-x-prod-021 onto sakaiprod1 ~/config-staging

  • (Programmer) Check out https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai/tags/sakai_2-5-x-prod-021 onto sakaiprod1 ~/src and build with patches

  • Per Kirk, we are turning on letter grading for this GB2's v1.1.0 release

    • sakai.properties

      • gb2.enabled.grade.types=points,percentages,letters

  • (Programmer)

    Special deployment instructions for smartsite-prod: on headnode: 1) svn export https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/deployment-scripts/branches/manual-prod-deploy/ROOT/index.html /tmp/index.html 2) cp /tmp/index.html $CATALINA_STAGING/webapps/ROOT/ All special instructions should be done after build, but before setup script is run.

During maintenance window

S = maintenance window + 30 mins

  • (S - 10 min ProjManmgt) Set database marker.

  • (S - 5 min Programmer) Put all application servers into maintenance mode and shutdown Sakai on each one

  • (S + 5m Prabhu) Backup the full database

  • (S + 35m Prabhu) Apply DB scripts (These are both alter table commands)

  • (S + 40m Programmer) Deploy sakai release tag via setup-sakai-node.sh to sakaiprod1.

  • (S + 45m Programmer) Restart sakaiprod1 sakai instance

  • (S + 50m QC) Verification

    • Verify that letter grading IS an option for Gradebook 2. (This is a change as of 9/18/2009 per Liz Gibson)

    • Verify that port 8443 does not appear in the url.

    • Verify that student view is the new spiffy one as evidence that the correct version of gb2 was rolled to prod.

    • Kirk to Change options on several sites to enable point mode scaling for categories to be consistent with GB 1.  No need to wait for him, he will login around 6:00 a.m. and can do this work while the rest of the deployment proceeds.

  • (S + 70m Programmer) Deploy release tag via setup-sakai-node.sh to sakaiprod2 . . . sakaiprod6, and sakaiprodmail1.

  • (S + 80m Programmer) Start Sakaiprod2 . . . sakaiprod6, and sakaiprodmail1.

  • (S + 85m Programmer) Take smartsite-prod out of maintenance mode 

  • (S + 90m Sandra) Send Release Management email

Fall-back Procedure (If needed) Time D is the decision time made to fallback

  • (D + 0m Programmer) Shutdown Sakai on smartsite-prod

  • (D + 2m Prabhu)  Restore the following tables:

    • GB_GRADEBOOK_T

    • GB_CATEGORY_T

  • (D + 2m Programmer) Remove sakai.properties from config-staging and rename sakai.properties.020 to sakai.properties

  • (D + 4m Programmer) Run mvn sakai:deploy from previous tag directory

  • (D + 15m Programmer) Deploy previous tag on head node and all other app servers via setup-sakai-node.sh

  • (D + 20m Programmer) Restart sakai on head node

  • (D + 25m QC) Verify the database marker is in place

  • (D + 40m Programmer) Restart sakai on remaining nodes

  • (D + 25m Programmer) Take application servers out of maintenance mode