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## Usage

by Joel Aufrecht

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Here's the entire chain of code used to set up auto-rebuilding servers on test.openacs.org

- The master server shows the status of all other servers. For test.openacs.org, it listens on port 80.

  1. The acs-automated-testing parameter `IsInstallReportServer` is set to 1

  2. The acs-automated-testing parameter `XMLReportDir` is set to `/var/log/openacs-install`. This is arbitrary - it just needs to be somewhere all the servers can write to.

- For each server that will be monitored:

  1. Suppose the first test server is service1. Set up a dedicated user and automated install script.

  2. To run automated testing automatically each time the server is rebuilt, add this to /home/service1/install/install.tcl:

                set do_tclapi_testing "yes"

  3. Get the results of the automated tests dumped where the master server can see them - in this example, the same directory as above, `/var/log/openacs-install`, by adding this to install.tcl (requires 5.1):

                   set install_xml_file          "/var/lib/aolserver/service0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/install-autotest.xml"

     This will copy in the file `install-autotest.xml`:

         <?xml version="1.0"?>

         <!-- This is an install.xml which can be used to configure servers for reporting their automated test results.  Requires acs-automated-testing 5.1.0b2 or better -->

         <application name="acs-automated-testing" pretty-name="Automated Testing" home="http://openacs.org/">

           <actions>

             <set-parameter package="acs-automated-testing" name="XMLReportDir" value="/var/log/openacs-install"/>
           </actions>

         </application>

     which will, during install, configure that parameter in acs-automated-testing on the monitored server.

- To enable the 'rebuild server' link, edit the file /usr/local/bin/rebuild-server.sh:

      #!/bin/sh
      # script to trigger a server rebuild

      # hard-coding the valid server names here for some minimal security
      case $1 in
          service1) ;;
          service2) ;;
          *)
              echo "Usage: $0 servername"
              exit;;
      esac

      sudo /home/$1/install/install.sh 2>&1

  and allow the `master` user to execute this file as root (this is a limitation of the automatic install script, which must be root). In `/etc/sudoers`, include a line:

      master ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/rebuild-server.sh

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