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What are compelling use cases for having both Chef and RightScale?

fedex13 — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:41:38 GMT

I'm currently a Chef user and I'm doing some research on cloud management tools like RightScale. From what I have read, there seems to be an overlap between Cloud management platforms and Configuration Management Software like Chef. I would like to have some feedback from customers who have been using both software to learn more about some common use cases.

Hello everybody!!!

Peggy Keeble — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:16:41 GMT

I am new here and I'm happy to part of this forum site....

Safe way to sync directories on two servers via S3

carmstrong — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:41:09 GMT

We have a CMS that runs on multiple app severs in our RightScale server array. They each write to their local filesystem and a shared database. When one of our users uploads new template files to the CMS, it only gets written to the local filesystem.

We have a script that runs every minute which automatically commits new files to a subversion repository after running a 'svn up' to get new files added.This is most definitely a sub-optimal solution.

Are there any RightScale-provided tools which we can use to synch the local directories to S3? Files created, modified, or deleted should be synched to S3. Since both servers would be running the same script, I'm thinking they would both send and receive updates on S3.

Or, is there a better solution than S3? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!

Is Rightscale still supporting Eucalyptus?

christr — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:32:48 GMT

It seems there are fewer Eucalyptus server templates now then there were a few months ago... is RS dumping their support for Euca? I would've expected nearly anything that was being worked on for Amazon to be paired up with Eucalyptus as well. (well that was my hope anyway).

--Chris

Building redundancy into DB architecture on Amazon

carmstrong — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:17:10 GMT

Using RightScale, we have a master/slave database architecture. However, on more than one occasion, our master DB has gone down. Amazon just seems to shrug and say "the underlying host became unresponsive". We have to manually promote the slave to master, launch a new slave, and let it synch. We then kill the old server. For the duration of this process, our site is unavailable.

That sort of thing really isn't acceptable to us... is there an alternative to maximize redundancy? How do other people deal with this sort of thing?

Increase data/log volume sizes for SQL Server

christr — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:02:11 GMT

Heya, any trick (or preferably documented RightScale approved way) to grow the log & data volumes on a windows box running SQL Server? (this is using the RightScale SQL Server template).

thanks,
--Chris

Ubuntu Server 12.04 (precise) final MCIs released

Chris Fordham - RightScale — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:50:27 GMT

Ubuntu Server 12.04 (precise) MCIs have been released, enjoy!

ruby.exe starting every 30 seconds on my AWS server?

cjard — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:05 GMT

Hi guys

Might not be the best place to get help on this, but.. I'm quite new to using AWS and have a particular need for the server to do some streaming work. I've noticed the audio suffers some disruption on a regular basis and I can also see that roughly every 30 seconds, ruby.exe in C:\Program Files\RightScale\SandBox\Ruby\bin is lauched, hammers the cpu for a second and then quits again

Any ideas what it's doing, and can I disable it?

Thanks
CJ

api for alert_specs

swz — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:44:06 GMT

question about the parameters for alert_specs, for the voting tag, is it a good practice to have it 1:1 map to the array name? what are the considerations when defining the vote_tag?

also, is escalation_name needed for vote based alerts?

thanks,

RDS connection problem

tanna — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:06:02 GMT

Sorry if this is not the correct place to post my problem but i have created some security groups in rds. yesterday i created tables using one of the ips specified. today that ip is down so am trying to access using other specified ip but it shows the error:

ERROR 1045(28000) :Access denied for user 'root'@some ip address(using password yes). plz help

Graphing with custom collectd plugin

StevenSage — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:31:30 GMT

I wrote a plugin for collectd to report on the status of passenger. The plugin works great but I am unable to get all of my results to show up on the same graph. the metrics from passenger currently being reported are max threads, active threads, inactive threads, and items waiting on global queue. Each of these metrics currently show up in a separate graph. I've seen other collectd graph with all metrics in one view with colored lines. How do I go about getting this to happen? the code that outputs the values is below. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Code:

puts("PUTVAL #{hostname}/#{PLUGIN_NAME}/gauge-max_allowed_connections #{start_run}:#{max}")

puts("PUTVAL #{hostname}/#{PLUGIN_NAME}/gauge-thread_count #{start_run}:#{count}")

puts("PUTVAL #{hostname}/#{PLUGIN_NAME}/gauge-threads_active #{start_run}:#{active}")

puts("PUTVAL #{hostname}/#{PLUGIN_NAME}/gauge-threads_inactive #{start_run}:#{inactive}")

puts("PUTVAL #{hostname}/#{PLUGIN_NAME}/gauge-waiting_in_queue #{start_run}:#{waiting}")

Current Graphs I would like consolidated

Into something like this

EBS Continuous backups - 11H1 [rev 5] fails

robert.piskule — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:03:37 GMT

Does anyone have any ideas?

I have a volume at /dev/sdj, mounted to /persistant. It is formatted as xfs.

INPUTS:

Code:

EBS_BACKUP_FREQUENCY Information

text:5 * * * *



EBS_BACKUP_KEEP_DAILY Information

text:14



EBS_BACKUP_KEEP_LAST Information

text:60



EBS_BACKUP_KEEP_MONTHLY Information

text:12



EBS_BACKUP_KEEP_WEEKLY Information

text:6



EBS_BACKUP_KEEP_YEARLY Information

text:2



EBS_LINEAGE Information

text:backup-liveserver



EBS_LINEAGE_PREFIX_OVERRIDE Information

No value/Ignore



EBS_MOUNT_POINT Information

text:/persistant



EBS_STRIPE_COUNT Information

text:1

 

EBS_TERMINATE_SAFETY Information

text:Override the dropdown and set to "off" to really run this script

 

EBS_TOTAL_VOLUME_GROUP_SIZE Information

text:1

CRON LOG:

Code:

syncing filesystem..                                                            

                                                                                

Filesystem synched.                                                             

running xfs_freeze -f /persistant                                               

                                                                                

Performing RightScale API call to create a new snapshot                         

CAUGHT EXCEPTION in: create_ebs_backup({:max_snaps=>60, :keep_weeklies=>6, :pre\

fix_override=>"backup-liveserver", :keep_monthlies=>12, :devices=>"", :keep_yea\

rlies=>2, :lineage=>"backup-liveserver", :suffix=>"201204181444", :description=\

>"Snapshot created by RightScale DB tools on instance i-a00c65c7.", :keep_daili\

es=>14})                                                                        

#                              

#                                          

{"aws_ids":[],"error":"No devices specified\n"}                                 

RESPONSE BODY: {"aws_ids":[],"error":"No devices specified\n"}                  

running xfs_freeze -u /persistant                                               

                                                                                

running xfs_freeze -f /persistant                                               

                                                                                

Performing RightScale API call to create a new snapshot                         

CAUGHT EXCEPTION in: create_ebs_backup({:max_snaps=>60, :keep_weeklies=>6, :pre\

fix_override=>"backup-liveserver", :keep_monthlies=>12, :devices=>"", :keep_yea\

rlies=>2, :lineage=>"backup-liveserver", :suffix=>"201204181444", :description=\

>"Snapshot created by RightScale DB tools on instance i-a00c65c7.", :keep_daili\

es=>14})                                                                        

#                              

#                                          

{"aws_ids":[],"error":"No devices specified\n"}                                 

RESPONSE BODY: {"aws_ids":[],"error":"No devices specified\n"}                  

running xfs_freeze -u /persistant                                               

                                                                                

/opt/rightscale/ebs/backupEBS_stripe.rb:116: uninitialized constant RightScale:\

:RemoteExecException (NameError)                                                

=========  Starting New Backup =========                                        

Wed Apr 18 14:44:09 -0400 2012                                                  

-D 14 -W 6 -M 12 -Y 2                                                           

/opt/rightscale/ebs/backupEBS_stripe.rb -s '201204181444' -l  'backup-liveserve\

r' -n 'backup-liveserver'  -c 'backup-liveserver' -t 'rs_snapshot' -p /persista\

nt -m 60 -D 14 -W 6 -M 12 -Y 2                                                  

Creating snapshot                                                               

WARNING: snapshot failed - retrying                                             

Creating snapshot                                                               

WARNING: snapshot failed - retrying                                             

Backup execution failed

Alerts

mormerod@progress.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:01:57 GMT

Hi

Is it possible to create alerts based upon uptime? So I want to get notifications if a deployment has been running for 30 days for example?

Thanks

Mike