Provisioning new dhis instance with metadata in central and field dhis model

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Hi All,

This mail is to understand the practices that you follow while provisioning a new dhis instance with metadata in central and field dhis model.

                Our setup is something like this. We have a central instance of dhis in cloud and we have multiple instances of dhis in different locations. Metadata would be created at central instance, flows down to the field instances and data would flow upward.

                 We are thinking on how can we easily setup a dhis machine with metadata in a field which starts quite late may be 2 years after the cloud instance is setup and there might be lot of metadata already in place. If you have done something like this already, please let us know on how do you handle this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Sultan Ahamar.

Thought Works.

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Hi Sultan,

I don’t have experience with exactly this scenario. How do you distribute your machines to the field? A simple approach would be to simply:

  • create a metadata JSON file containing everything you need to reflect the current state of the metadata

  • create a small executable that uses curl to -x POST -d @file this to the metadata API endpoint

  • package this executable and the JSON file on the file system and have your user invoke it after starting up for the first time

regards,

Lars

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Sultanahamar Mohammad sultanm@thoughtworks.com wrote:

Hi All,

This mail is to understand the practices that you follow while provisioning a new dhis instance with metadata in central and field dhis model.

                Our setup is something like this. We have a central instance of dhis in cloud and we have multiple instances of dhis in different locations. Metadata would be created at central instance, flows down to the field instances and data would flow upward.

                 We are thinking on how can we easily setup a dhis machine with metadata in a field which starts quite late may be 2 years after the cloud instance is setup and there might be lot of metadata already in place. If you have done something like this already, please let us know on how do you handle this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Sultan Ahamar.

Thought Works.

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