Automate Retry deployment failures

Guys:

I have seen this issue in forums before but now I am not able to find it.

Here is what I am trying to do. Incase of deployment failures I want to try 3 times automatically from workflow and at 4th time I want to send a deployment resolution task to the administrator. So how and where to manage that count. This is a code snippet from my workflow

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lock = "f"
owner = "__INSERT__($BusinessUser);"
retry = "t"
start = "f"
description = "Send Failed Deployment Notification">

lock = "f"
owner = "__INSERT__($BusinessUser);"
start = "f"
readonly = "f"
description = "Retry Deployment">

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Thanks

TN

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nipper

Set a WF variable, Have the OD script check it and on the 4th failure, return to a different callBack. If you have a timeout on that task, it will not do the 3 tries and out, it will just go wherever you want it to.

So what is the rational ? If it did not work 3 seconds ago, we think it will work now ? Or in 3 more seconds ?

Tanuj

Nipper Issue I am facing is for whatever wierd reason deployment fails but you do a retry from deployment failure task it just goes out smoothly. Maybe it can be a network issue. Today i got these 2 errors from 2 servers in the farm and deployment failed

LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:24 ERROR: Failed to process src directory (.\WHNew\WHCOM22).
LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:24 Receiver-ERROR: ERROR: compare-failed.
LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:24 ERROR: Failed to deploy local_directory[.] of area[Y:\default\main\wwwFSL\prodwwwFSL\FTLP\STAGING]

and

LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:37 00025LIB: (2) 2007-08-31 10:19:37 COMPARING done
LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:37 ERROR: Failed to process src directory (.\WHB\WHBHardSubprime\images).
LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:37 Receiver-ERROR: ERROR: compare-failed.
LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:37 ERROR: Failed to deploy local_directory[.] of area[Y:\default\main\wwwFSL\prodwwwFSL\FTLP\STAGING]
LIB: 2007-08-31 10:19:37 ERROR: Failed 1 of 1 local_directories

but when i tried to redeploy just ran smoothly. And I get this 2-3 times in a day. So that is why i want to automate retry deployment.

Thanks

TN

nipper

My guess is that you are hitting a timing issue, where the submit has not fully completed, and the deployment from Staging is happening.

I did not think that happens on DOS, but maybe.

Try putting a dummytask in front of the deployment with a 5 second timeout and see if that helps.

Adam Stoller

Set a WF variable, Have the OD script check it and on the 4th failure, return to a different callBack. If you have a timeout on that task, it will not do the 3 tries and out, it will just go wherever you want it to.

An easier alternative (IMO) is to have the script, itself, do the looping before it does a callback to an error handler...