Canceling deployment, OpenAPI mode

Is there a way to cancel an in-progress deployment when using OD 5.5.1 SP2 in OpenAPI mode? (that is, when using OD with Teamsite) The documentation explicitly notes that one, the admin GUI should not be used; and two, that there are no command line options for canceling deployments.

Specifically the situation arises where a deployment to an IIS4 server transmits, enters commit, then hangs forever as it cannot achieve simultaneous locks on all files. In this situation it would be ideal to cancel and roll back the transactional deployment on all servers.

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Adam Stoller

I don't believe that there is any OpenAPI interface for OpenDeploy at this time.
I think there is work going on in that direction, but nothing that I have any details on.

You might ask Interwoven Support to open up a feature request for this on your behalf (or add your company to any such existing feature request already on file).

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Migrateduser

If IIS is temporarily locking files on you during the deployments, you might try the svrTryCount and svrTryInterval attributes, which tell OD to retry writing (committing) files.

OD 5.6 provides a new "cancel" CLT and has improved the ability to request deployment termination from the UI. (In OD 551 the button is not visible when the deployment is in certain stages.)

All of this is independent of whether you are using OpenAPI from TeamSite or the OD Op Server.

Todd Scallan
Senior Product Manager
Interwoven
t: 408-530-7167
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tiroth

Base-server-side, the deployments do not fail. It appears that they try forever (or at least for many hours). I haven't had access yet to reciever-side logs to see what it looks like on that end when this occurs.

When will OD 5.6 (production release) be available?

Migrateduser

We are targeting end of January for release.

Todd Scallan
Senior Product Manager
Interwoven
t: 408-530-7167
e: tscallan@interwoven.com

markus

I am not sure which of the following two statements taken from the OpenDeploy Administration Guide Release 5.6 (od.560.admin.pdf) will help you.

(1) "You can only cancel a deployment in progress from the source host using the OpenDeploy user interface. ... There is no method for canceling a deployment from the command prompt." (page 93)

(2) "You can cancel a deployment in progress from the command line using the iwoddeploycancel command-line tool." (page 105)

good luck.
-markus

Migrateduser

Statement (1) is incorrect. I'll file a doc bug.

Sorry for the confusion.

Todd Scallan
Senior Product Manager
Interwoven
t: 408-530-7167
e: tscallan@interwoven.com