managing TeamSite thru TeamSite

I've heard mention of some organizations using TeamSite to manage its own configuration files so that configuration changes can be versioned. But I haven't found any documentation on how to set this up. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

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Migrateduser

It's not "documented" per se. The idea is, create a branch where you store copies of iw.cfg + the contents of iw-home/local/config (plus any other server config files you like.) Then set up a deployment to occur when a submit happens on that branch, that deploys down into the correct locations in iw-home.

Et voila, you are managing teamsite config files in teamsite.

bw

Bob Walden [bob.walden@interwoven.com]
Interwoven Education Group
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akshathp

We used TeamSite server as a dev server for group of our Teamsite dev servers for web properties.

1. In this base TeamSite server (ts-admin), we created branches for (ts-dev1), (ts-dev2) and (ts-dev3).

2. These branches had directory structure of TeamSite home on those dev servers.

3. From these branches we had Deployment set for iwhome on each server. So a deployment from ts-dev1 branch of ts-admin server would have destination as iwhome on ts-dev1 server. In a way the dev servers are treated as production stages for this ts-admin server.

4. The deployment was trigger based. "iwatsub".

I am writing these points at a very high level. But if you could write in your post about what exactly you are looking for, then probably I could answer to that query if I have an answer.

Hope this helps!

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

Johnny

One example we implimented was to use symbolic links (under unix ofcourse) to point certain directories to the teamsite store.
eg
/iw-home/custom ->
/iw-home/local ->

not as flexible as whats been mentioned above and it needs to be documented properly for upgrades etc.

but its quick and simple!

John
Sydney, Australia

Grundy

Actually, the high-level answers I've received are sufficient for now. Just wanted to get a feel for what others have tried. Thanks for your help!

Migrateduser

There is a danger of using symbolic links into the IFS is the "chicken and egg" problem. TeamSite needs to read some of these files during start-up, and the IFS may not be available at the time the files are needed. This is why others have used TeamSite only to store copies of the live files.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

Johnny

Yes we've heard of this aswell.
Although it seems to work okay with us.
All that we have is /iw-home/local & /iw-home/custom which hasnt seem to cause us a problem.

John
Sydney, Australia