Taking The Pain Out Of OpenROAD Installations.

1. LOADNRUNTaking The Pain Out of OpenROAD Installations Roy Deal Simon rds@bording.dk UKIUA 2010

3. Toll of Europe’s Biggest Bridge

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7. Eclients and the ActiveX Control CAB Files User Popups Global Registry Windows Directory

8. The Solution in 2 easy Steps! Step 1: Step 2: W4GLRUN IRUNNER Becomes

9. Push the Runtime and your Apps YOUR APP IRUNNER OpenROAD Runtime

10. Great in theory – but in practice?! MACHINE APP APP APP MACHINE APP APP APP MACHINE APP APP APP

11. Push the Runtime, Pull the Datafiles OpenROAD Application Server Field worker Web Server Sales Rep Supplier CEO (w/o VPN)

12. LoadnRun: Extention to iRunner LOADNRUN IRUNNER OpenROAD Runtime

13. What does the installer actually do? C:rogram Filesngresin SYSTEM PATH LOADNRUN IRUNNER OpenROAD Runtime Desktop Icon

14. The rest is easy!

15. call system(“irunner loadnrun“ $app $url)

16. LoadnRun has a Client and a Server Part LoadnRun Server LoadnRun Client Clicks shortcut Checks availability APP? APP LoadnRun installs Is higher version? APP! APP

17. Server Repository Setup II_W4GLAPPS_DIRclientbr />APP APP LIB LIB LIB APP INSTALL4GL.TXT APP.IMG PDF, JPG, XSL… You don’t have to modify your existing OpenROAD clients. Much…

18. Automatic Dependency Management II_W4GLAPPS_DIRclientbr />APPLICATION/ APP INSTALL4GL.TXT LIB LIBRARY=mylibrary1 LIB LIBRARY=mylibrary2

20. library1.config <- install4gl.txt renamed

21. library2.img

22. library2.config

24. fubar.config

25. run.bat <- irunner.exe fubar.img

27. lib1 -> Test/lib/*

28. app2 -> Prod/app/*

29. lib2 -> Prod/lib/*User: %APPDATA%/Ingres/…cache app1 -> Test/app/* lib1 -> Test/lib/* app2 -> Prod/app/* lib2 -> Prod/lib/* OpenROADNameserver: Server_Test Server_Prod

31. Browser Plugin

33. eclient_uninstall.exe

35. No Poweruser Privileges

36. Citrix, Terminal Services

37. Anyone, Anywhere

38. Auto-Deployment

39. Easy to Uninstall

40. Transparent Updates

41. Dependency Management

42. Multiple Client Versions

45. 8 months in production on Citrix Servers

46. Endorsed by the Ingres OpenROAD TeamIngres Community Wiki: http://community.ingres.com/wiki/LoadnRun_Home Want More? Get in touch! RDS@BORDING.DK