To streamline the process of creating new Endur/Findur environments, we have created the 'Endur/Findur Environment Wizard'.
This is accessible to emdash™ administrators on the home page:
Clicking on the button takes the admin user to the Wizard page, where they have some simple information to complete:
The information needed is:
- Environment Name
- What the environment will be called in emdash™.
- Entering the name of an existing environment will warn the user that the rebuild process will be rerun.
- This is useful in the event the job failed, or new Azure VMs need to be created.
- Owner
- Who will own the environment when it has been created. This defaults to the user running the Wizard
- Source Environment Name
- If environments already exist in the emdash™ instance, you can select one
- Selecting an environment will make the new one look the same in terms of applications that are allocated to it and their versions
- If no environments already exist, you do not have to complete this field
- Select or Specify Backup File
- If you specify a source environment, a drop down list appears with the recent database backup files available. Selecting one of these will use it to refresh the new environment
- Alternately, you can specify a UNC Path to an Endur/Findur backup file which will be used instead
- Database Server Name
- If environments exist, you can select from a list of pre-configured database servers
- Alternately, you can specify a new database server by clicking on 'Add database details' where you will have a pop-up to define the server, database type, and version of the database (e.g. <Server>\<Instance>, SQL Server, SQL 2012R2)
- Database Technology and Version
- Confirmation of the data associated with the database server selected
- Environment Type
- This is the categorisation within emdash™ - where it gets presented on the emdash™ home page
- You can create new 'Types' by clicking on the 'Create New Environment Type' button
- Authentication Type
- This is the way in which users will connect to the Endur/Findur environment. The options are:
- AD. The default in 99% of cases would be single sign-on through the windows account
- SQL. In some cases a separate application login is required. This means that each user will have a database login created for them.
- Fileshare
- The root location of where the environment's fileshare will be created
- Description
- A description of the environment that will be presented on the emdash™ front page
A completed Environment Wizard form would look something like this:
Click on 'Run Environment Wizard' and a new emdash™ job will be kicked off that will:
- Create the emdash™ reference data to describe the environment
- Create the fileshare folder
- Create the relevant AD Group in Active Directory
- Create a shell database on the database server
- Grant permissions to the AD Group to the fileshare folder
- Create the directories needed in the fileshare folder
- Create 2 new VMs from the Azure template (if Azure is configured)
- Copy the Endur/Findur binaries onto the servers
- Install and configure one Endur/Findur runsite on each VM
- Install and configure the ECOM Spread Daemon on the VM
- Refresh the database with the backup file selected
- Run the emdash™ Environment Refresh processes against the database to configure it into a new environment
- Assign all Endur/Findur system accounts to the database
- Create the relevant config files for the environment
- Create the shortcuts needed to access the environments, for system accounts and Active Directory users
The environment is now available, and can be managed by emdash™ users/admins as normal.
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