Thread: Installing Symphony DE on many machines

Hello,

Installing Symphony DE on a local desktop was easy and straightforward. But is there any easy way to install it on many machines? Do you have any utility or sample script to do that?

-Southpaw

Originally Posted by Southpaw

Hello,

Installing Symphony DE on a local desktop was easy and straightforward. But is there any easy way to install it on many machines? Do you have any utility or sample script to do that?

-Southpaw

I wrote on article on how to do the configuration;

Adding Hosts to your Symphony DE Cluster

A script would be useful to copy the configuration file to each of your compute hosts.

The Development Guide has a section covering this topic: Expand a single host installation to a cluster

Though Ajith's article is more detailed.

Shouldn't Symphony DE be installed on each of those compute hosts in the first place? If so, how would you deploy and install it on a massive-scale cluster?

- Southpaw

Originally Posted by Southpaw

Shouldn't Symphony DE be installed on each of those compute hosts in the first place? If so, how would you deploy and install it on a massive-scale cluster?

- Southpaw

You are correct, installing Symphony DE on 100's of machines can be a time consuming task. Luckily, Symphony DE doesn't require too much configuration, it just needs the vem_resource.conf file to be replicated onto each machine.

If you are installing Linux, I suggest you install Symphony DE on one machine, update the vem_resource.conf file and then use a script to copy the Symphony DE directory to all the other computers.

If you are installing on Windows, you can do a similar thing. The advantage of using the Windows msi installer is that it registers the DE agent starter as a service, sets up your path and environment and program groups. Once all the files are copied you need to visit each machine and do a bit of manual setup. You must set the env variable SOAM_HOME to point to the installation directory and add the symphony bin directory to your path. It may also be convenient to register the agent starter using the command; soamservice -register. That's it.

Originally Posted by Ajith

If you are installing on Windows, you can do a similar thing.

Yes dude, Microsoft script center has some script tools that perform remote installation of MSI applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr.../usapvb02.mspx

Of course there's also the disk imaging option =)