Bug 957689 - Unable to complete tasks when server is shutdown

Thomas Segismont tsegismo at redhat.com
Wed Jun 26 11:05:56 UTC 2013


Le 26/06/2013 12:54, Larry O'Leary a écrit :
> On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 12:22 +0200, Thomas Segismont wrote:
>> I forgot to say that the DeploymentUnitProcessor classes are only
>> activated at boot time. So after installing RHQ you will need to restart
>> the server.
>>
>> Do you think that deserves a message in the server installer?
>
> Seems that asking a user to "restart" the server as part of the install
> is a bad idea. It doesn't make sense from a usability perspective. If we
> can't implement this any other way then the question becomes, should the
> installer only install and not start anything? Therefore the action of
> starting the server becomes part of the post-install process.
>
>  From my perspective, I would prefer a better/different solution that
> allowed the server to start as part of the install process without the
> user having to do it separately.
>

We need the server to be up during the installation process. The 
installer communicates with the management interface to install our 
queues, EAR, ... etc.

We could look at the server log and catch the "server started" message 
then restart the server.

What do you think?


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