Multiple instances on a server

Hello,

Please does anyone have any ideas on how to deploy multiple instances on a single server in an efficient manner which doesn’t drain server resources dramatically…Thinking of Deploying multiple instances of Tomcat VS Multiple war files in the same Tomcat.

Thank you.

···

Regards,

Adedapo Adejumo.
Mobile : +2348033683677
Skype : dapojorge

Hi Dapo,

I know of two ways to do this, and suspect there may be others.

A) This method will utilize a single Tomcat container, with multiple
DHIS2 instances.
0) Create two copies of the dhis.war file...dhis.war and dhis_XX,war
for instance. Unzip the war file into these directories.
1) Using the tool "mc" navigate to
/webapps/dhis_XX/WEB-INF/lib/dhis-support-external.2.X.jar where X is
the version number.
2) Open up the JAR file with mc and navigate to
META-INF/dhis/beans.xml and modify DHIS2_HOME to DHIS2_HOME_XX where
XX can be anything really.
3) You need to setup an environment variable in your system for
DHIS2_HOME_XX (i.e. /usr/local/etc/dhis2_XX/)
4) Create a hibernate properties file in DHIS2_HOME_XX.
5) Start Tomcat. You will now have two separate DHIS instance running
which are controlled by two separate environment variables
(DHIS2_HOME) and (DHIS2_HOME_XX)

The disadvantage here is that you have to modify this file each time
you upgrade DHIS.

B) Two separate Tomcat instances. This is the method I prefer.
0) Create two separate tomcat instances...for instance
/usr/local/tomcat1 and /usr/local/tomcat2
1) You will need to modify the server.xml file of one of the instances
(e.g tomcat2) to startup on a different port that /tomcat1. How you do
this depends a bit on the types of connectors you may be using
(HTTP,AJP, etc) but this is well documented elsewhere about how to
modify the ports Tomcat runs on.
2) Create a file in each /bin directory of the tomcat directories
called setenv.sh (Linux) or setenv.bat (Windows) and define the
DHIS2_HOME directory to point to two separate locations. Create two
separate hibernate.properties files.
3) You will now have two separate instance running on the ports which
you have defined in the respective server.xml files.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jason

···

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dapo Adejumo <dapo_adejumo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello,
Please does anyone have any ideas on how to deploy multiple instances on a
single server in an efficient manner which doesn't drain server resources
dramatically.....Thinking of Deploying multiple instances of Tomcat VS
Multiple war files in the same Tomcat.

Thank you.

________________________________

Regards,

Adedapo Adejumo.
Mobile : +2348033683677
Skype : dapojorge

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Nice subtle recommendation for the midnite commander :slight_smile:

BTW I am also in favour of the latter of the two approaches. But I
am curious has anyone actually measured what the relative cost of
running two tomcats vs one tomcat+2 webapps is? I kind of feel
instinctively that it doesn't cost much, but if anyone has a measure
I'd be interested to hear.

···

On 22 February 2012 05:15, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dapo,

I know of two ways to do this, and suspect there may be others.

A) This method will utilize a single Tomcat container, with multiple
DHIS2 instances.
0) Create two copies of the dhis.war file...dhis.war and dhis_XX,war
for instance. Unzip the war file into these directories.
1) Using the tool "mc" navigate to
/webapps/dhis_XX/WEB-INF/lib/dhis-support-external.2.X.jar where X is
the version number.
2) Open up the JAR file with mc and navigate to
META-INF/dhis/beans.xml and modify DHIS2_HOME to DHIS2_HOME_XX where
XX can be anything really.
3) You need to setup an environment variable in your system for
DHIS2_HOME_XX (i.e. /usr/local/etc/dhis2_XX/)
4) Create a hibernate properties file in DHIS2_HOME_XX.
5) Start Tomcat. You will now have two separate DHIS instance running
which are controlled by two separate environment variables
(DHIS2_HOME) and (DHIS2_HOME_XX)

The disadvantage here is that you have to modify this file each time
you upgrade DHIS.

B) Two separate Tomcat instances. This is the method I prefer.
0) Create two separate tomcat instances...for instance
/usr/local/tomcat1 and /usr/local/tomcat2
1) You will need to modify the server.xml file of one of the instances
(e.g tomcat2) to startup on a different port that /tomcat1. How you do
this depends a bit on the types of connectors you may be using
(HTTP,AJP, etc) but this is well documented elsewhere about how to
modify the ports Tomcat runs on.
2) Create a file in each /bin directory of the tomcat directories
called setenv.sh (Linux) or setenv.bat (Windows) and define the
DHIS2_HOME directory to point to two separate locations. Create two
separate hibernate.properties files.
3) You will now have two separate instance running on the ports which
you have defined in the respective server.xml files.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jason

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dapo Adejumo <dapo_adejumo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello,
Please does anyone have any ideas on how to deploy multiple instances on a
single server in an efficient manner which doesn't drain server resources
dramatically.....Thinking of Deploying multiple instances of Tomcat VS
Multiple war files in the same Tomcat.

Thank you.

________________________________

Regards,

Adedapo Adejumo.
Mobile : +2348033683677
Skype : dapojorge

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Knut told me about another way of unzipping the jar file, altering the
beans.xml file, and then zipping it up again, but this was too complex
for me. The good ole midnight commander is a nice utility knife.

I am not sure about the costs really, but the second approach is
better for a number of reasons I think. It allows more control over
each container, so that one might need more memory or different
settings or what not. Also, from a load balancing perspective, if one
container fails, it will not necessarily bring down both. I also think
there may be advantages related to CPU utilization (at the cost of
memory) when having the containers separate. However,it does of course
require the management of two separate instances, which may lead to
higher admin costs.

···

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice subtle recommendation for the midnite commander :slight_smile:

BTW I am also in favour of the latter of the two approaches. But I
am curious has anyone actually measured what the relative cost of
running two tomcats vs one tomcat+2 webapps is? I kind of feel
instinctively that it doesn't cost much, but if anyone has a measure
I'd be interested to hear.

On 22 February 2012 05:15, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dapo,

I know of two ways to do this, and suspect there may be others.

A) This method will utilize a single Tomcat container, with multiple
DHIS2 instances.
0) Create two copies of the dhis.war file...dhis.war and dhis_XX,war
for instance. Unzip the war file into these directories.
1) Using the tool "mc" navigate to
/webapps/dhis_XX/WEB-INF/lib/dhis-support-external.2.X.jar where X is
the version number.
2) Open up the JAR file with mc and navigate to
META-INF/dhis/beans.xml and modify DHIS2_HOME to DHIS2_HOME_XX where
XX can be anything really.
3) You need to setup an environment variable in your system for
DHIS2_HOME_XX (i.e. /usr/local/etc/dhis2_XX/)
4) Create a hibernate properties file in DHIS2_HOME_XX.
5) Start Tomcat. You will now have two separate DHIS instance running
which are controlled by two separate environment variables
(DHIS2_HOME) and (DHIS2_HOME_XX)

The disadvantage here is that you have to modify this file each time
you upgrade DHIS.

B) Two separate Tomcat instances. This is the method I prefer.
0) Create two separate tomcat instances...for instance
/usr/local/tomcat1 and /usr/local/tomcat2
1) You will need to modify the server.xml file of one of the instances
(e.g tomcat2) to startup on a different port that /tomcat1. How you do
this depends a bit on the types of connectors you may be using
(HTTP,AJP, etc) but this is well documented elsewhere about how to
modify the ports Tomcat runs on.
2) Create a file in each /bin directory of the tomcat directories
called setenv.sh (Linux) or setenv.bat (Windows) and define the
DHIS2_HOME directory to point to two separate locations. Create two
separate hibernate.properties files.
3) You will now have two separate instance running on the ports which
you have defined in the respective server.xml files.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jason

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dapo Adejumo <dapo_adejumo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello,
Please does anyone have any ideas on how to deploy multiple instances on a
single server in an efficient manner which doesn't drain server resources
dramatically.....Thinking of Deploying multiple instances of Tomcat VS
Multiple war files in the same Tomcat.

Thank you.

________________________________

Regards,

Adedapo Adejumo.
Mobile : +2348033683677
Skype : dapojorge

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I would go with Jason’s suggestion. But since he mentioned what I came up with many years ago, here’s a link:

http://www.openhealthconsortium.org/wiki/doku.php?id=ohm_on_an_ubuntu_server#change_the_name_of_the_dhis2_home_environment_variable

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On Feb 22, 2012 5:51 PM, “Jason Pickering” jason.p.pickering@gmail.com wrote:

Knut told me about another way of unzipping the jar file, altering the

beans.xml file, and then zipping it up again, but this was too complex

for me. The good ole midnight commander is a nice utility knife.

I am not sure about the costs really, but the second approach is

better for a number of reasons I think. It allows more control over

each container, so that one might need more memory or different

settings or what not. Also, from a load balancing perspective, if one

container fails, it will not necessarily bring down both. I also think

there may be advantages related to CPU utilization (at the cost of

memory) when having the containers separate. However,it does of course

require the management of two separate instances, which may lead to

higher admin costs.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

Nice subtle recommendation for the midnite commander :slight_smile:

BTW I am also in favour of the latter of the two approaches. But I

am curious has anyone actually measured what the relative cost of

running two tomcats vs one tomcat+2 webapps is? I kind of feel

instinctively that it doesn’t cost much, but if anyone has a measure

I’d be interested to hear.

On 22 February 2012 05:15, Jason Pickering jason.p.pickering@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Dapo,

I know of two ways to do this, and suspect there may be others.

A) This method will utilize a single Tomcat container, with multiple

DHIS2 instances.

  1. Create two copies of the dhis.war file…dhis.war and dhis_XX,war

for instance. Unzip the war file into these directories.

  1. Using the tool “mc” navigate to

/webapps/dhis_XX/WEB-INF/lib/dhis-support-external.2.X.jar where X is

the version number.

  1. Open up the JAR file with mc and navigate to

META-INF/dhis/beans.xml and modify DHIS2_HOME to DHIS2_HOME_XX where

XX can be anything really.

  1. You need to setup an environment variable in your system for

DHIS2_HOME_XX (i.e. /usr/local/etc/dhis2_XX/)

  1. Create a hibernate properties file in DHIS2_HOME_XX.
  1. Start Tomcat. You will now have two separate DHIS instance running

which are controlled by two separate environment variables

(DHIS2_HOME) and (DHIS2_HOME_XX)

The disadvantage here is that you have to modify this file each time

you upgrade DHIS.

B) Two separate Tomcat instances. This is the method I prefer.

  1. Create two separate tomcat instances…for instance

/usr/local/tomcat1 and /usr/local/tomcat2

  1. You will need to modify the server.xml file of one of the instances

(e.g tomcat2) to startup on a different port that /tomcat1. How you do

this depends a bit on the types of connectors you may be using

(HTTP,AJP, etc) but this is well documented elsewhere about how to

modify the ports Tomcat runs on.

  1. Create a file in each /bin directory of the tomcat directories

called setenv.sh (Linux) or setenv.bat (Windows) and define the

DHIS2_HOME directory to point to two separate locations. Create two

separate hibernate.properties files.

  1. You will now have two separate instance running on the ports which

you have defined in the respective server.xml files.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jason

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dapo Adejumo dapo_adejumo@yahoo.com wrote:

Hello,

Please does anyone have any ideas on how to deploy multiple instances on a

single server in an efficient manner which doesn’t drain server resources

dramatically…Thinking of Deploying multiple instances of Tomcat VS

Multiple war files in the same Tomcat.

Thank you.


Regards,

Adedapo Adejumo.

Mobile : +2348033683677

Skype : dapojorge


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Thanks Jason ,
We follow your steps and it’s work for the first part (A).This video will explain your steps

Thanks

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no longer work for 2.33

Yes No longer working after 2.30 !!!
Any solution to it?