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Anyone know if it is possible to have -k substitution when using NextDeployment? I can't find anything in the manuals that says anything about it. I am using OD 6.1 on Windows 2003.

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ISCBorisB

Anyone know if it is possible to have -k substitution when using NextDeployment? I can't find anything in the manuals that says anything about it. I am using OD 6.1 on Windows 2003.

Formally, yes. You can use -k anywhere in your Deployment Configuration.

Do not expect it to magically change a value for differen tiers in multi-tiered deployment though.
What is the problem you are trying to solve?

sjruss

i am trying to subsitute a value in the xml config file on the tier server from the originating base, at the moment i have the following on the originating base server:

nextDeployment deployment="myconfigname" invokeOnSuccess="yes" multiTierTransactional="yes"

and i want to do something like:

nextDeployment deployment="myconfigname -k replace=with_this" invokeOnSuccess="yes" multiTierTransactional="yes"

ISCBorisB

i am trying to subsitute a value in the xml config file on the tier server from the originating base, at the moment i have the following on the originating base server:

nextDeployment deployment="myconfigname" invokeOnSuccess="yes" multiTierTransactional="yes"

and i want to do something like:

nextDeployment deployment="myconfigname -k replace=with_this" invokeOnSuccess="yes" multiTierTransactional="yes"

Well, as you know the original deployment configuration is not transmitted in multi-tier. So, you can not *propagate* -k value.
What you can do is use multiple middle tier configurations and set the desired one with -k from the original. Like this[html]
...
and then set what you want run-time
iwodcmd start ... -k "tier2=Desired_Next_Tier_Conf"

[/html]Please note that this works reasonably well with the single middle-tier (base-middle-target). If you have more than that perhaps DNR would do better than -k's,
I never really faced this *more-than-one-middle-tier* problem

sjruss

unfortunately it is the Desired_Next_Tier_Conf that i want to do a -k on

ISCBorisB

unfortunately it is the Desired_Next_Tier_Conf that i want to do a -k on

You can not do it directly.

You can code that as DNR (location="target" when="after" state="success") passing parameters (in "-k format" if needed) to your script and making this
script to build/run "iwodcmd start ... -k what_you_want" from the desired Tier.

It would be your responsibility then to return <response code='-2'/> on failure, etc... Pain in the neck but possible

Adam Stoller

You can not do it directly.

You can code that as DNR (location="target" when="after" state="success") passing parameters (in "-k format" if needed) to your script and making this
script to build/run "iwodcmd start ... -k what_you_want" from the desired Tier.

It would be your responsibility then to return <response code='-2'/> on failure, etc... Pain in the neck but possible

I'm not sure if it will do what you want - but you might take a look at routed deployments / Content Router functionality. The intent of the functionality was to pass content and configuration information for its deployment from base-to-hub(s)-to-receiver(s).

I believe it is reasonably well documented - but I must admit I haven't tried using it since I developed the prototype on which the product feature was based - and that was many-many-moons ago