[otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Bogdan Iosif
Hi, Can anyone help with some obvious issues around setting up a load balanced OTRS? - Does last db write always win? I imagine there's no built in protection against it. - Are HTTP sticky sessions required and if so, how can they be configured? I imagine OTRS needs some built in support to

[otrs] 3.2.1 upgrade ERROR 1091 Can't DROP 'ticket_answered';

2013-01-29 Thread Marco Vannini
Did anyone got this during ]# cat scripts/DBUpdate-to-3.2.mysql.sql | mysql otrs ERROR 1091 (42000) at line 20: Can't DROP 'ticket_answered'; check that column/key exists Can I go on ? I'm upping from a 3.1.6. thank you in advance. MV

Re: [otrs] 3.2.1 upgrade ERROR 1091 Can't DROP 'ticket_answered';

2013-01-29 Thread Michiel Beijen
Did you run the upgrade script twice? The ticket_answered column really should have been available in the Ticket table, although it was no longer used. -- Mike On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Marco Vannini marco.vann...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone got this during ]# cat

Re: [otrs] 3.2.1 upgrade ERROR 1091 Can't DROP 'ticket_answered';

2013-01-29 Thread Marco Vannini
Hi Michiel, Yes, I tryed and obviously I had to comment out some row before the one failed but than I encountered the same on other indexes ...really strange, but than, the .pl has gone without problems. [root@HMCVR0004 otrs]# cat scripts/DBUpdate-to-3.2.mysql.sql | mysql otrs ERROR 1091 (42000)

Re: [otrs] 3.2.1 upgrade ERROR 1091 Can't DROP 'ticket_answered';

2013-01-29 Thread Michiel Beijen
Marco: I had to comment out some row before the one failed -- I'm not sure what you mean here. Glad it worked for you... I think? -- Michiel On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Marco Vannini marco.vann...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Michiel, Yes, I tryed and obviously I had to comment out some row

Re: [otrs] 3.2.1 upgrade ERROR 1091 Can't DROP 'ticket_answered';

2013-01-29 Thread Marco Vannini
:D yes, I mean, if I had to reexecute the script the first line ALTER TABLE ticket DROP group_read; would fail so I commented out all the command just executed. Seems to work ... :D On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Michiel Beijen michiel.bei...@gmail.comwrote: Marco: I had to comment out

[otrs] YAML error message after upgrade to 3.2.1

2013-01-29 Thread Rudolf Bargholz
Hi, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) VERSION = 11 PATCHLEVEL = 2 OTRS 3.2.1 Was previously 3.1.12, then upgraded to 3.2.0.beta5, then upgraded to 3.2.1 We have the following packages installed:

Re: [otrs] YAML error message after upgrade to 3.2.1

2013-01-29 Thread Rudolf Bargholz
Hi, Florian advised to install the YAML perl module, but this was installed already: Check Perl Modules installed. All Perl modules needed are currently installed. ... o YAML::XS.ok (v0.38) Perhaps someone has an idea. Regards Rudolf Von: otrs-boun...@otrs.org

Re: [otrs] YAML error message after upgrade to 3.2.1

2013-01-29 Thread Rudolf Bargholz
Hi, Florian pointed me to other possible causes for general upgrade errors. Even though I installed from the rpm I still executed the following: (Step 7 of the UPGRADING) cd /opt/otrs bin/otrs.SetPermissions.pl /opt/otrs --otrs-user=otrs --web-user=wwwrun --otrs-group=nogroup --web-group=www

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread David Boyes
Thoughts: Rather than invent a application-specific solution, look at Linux-HA (www.linux-ha.orghttp://www.linux-ha.org). They’ve solved most of these problems in a neatly packaged way. There’s existing code to handle session affinity and most of the request distribution process. If you store

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Bogdan Iosif
Hi, While I appreciate the general advice, please note I'm not trying to reinvent anything. Instead, I want to prepare for natural problems that OTRS will run into when reaching a size that requires load balancing. For example, articles can't be stored in the database for installations where

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Steven Carr
Regarding system IDs... you couldn't give each system it's own system ID, otherwise they would function as distinct systems (each system wouldn't be able to act on tickets generated by the other etc.). Shared systems would have to share the same system ID. And OTRS sessions can be stored either

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Bogdan Iosif
Thanks for the input. I placed my replies inline. Have a look please. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Steven Carr sjc...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding system IDs... you couldn't give each system it's own system ID, otherwise they would function as distinct systems (each system wouldn't be able

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Bogdan Iosif
Now this is some mighty useful info. Thanks a lot. I'm not familiar with LVS or Linux-HA (mostly used MS platforms until ~ recently) so the next question may be born out of confusion: You have the load balancing performed by machines runnings LVS and the Linux-HA is running on the app nodes?

[otrs] Email Strings

2013-01-29 Thread Nick Lapp
Is there a way to exclude the prior email strings in emails when they go out to customers in ORTS? What happens is we end up with a really long page worth of duplicate information when the customer responds to the email and it comes back in as a new article. With excluding the old information

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Bogdan Iosif
| That is what I have always assumed, if you look in the sessions table in the DB in the session_value column you can see that there is all of the user's configuration in one big string. bogdan: Efficient and simple. I'm surprised. I assumed OTRS stores some user session data in memory/disk to

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread David Boyes
I'm not familiar with LVS or Linux-HA (mostly used MS platforms until ~ recently) so the next question may be born out of confusion: You have the load balancing performed by machines runnings LVS and the Linux-HA is running on the app nodes? Correct. LVS handles session distribution and

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Bogdan Iosif
Beautiful. Thanks a LOT for sharing this info. It took a big uncertainty off the table as I was unsure if OTRS can handle load balancing without tweaking it in some ugly ways. The DMS integration is very nice. If authentication / authorization against the DMS were an issue in your setup, how did

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Michiel Beijen
On topic of big databases: databases store data. Binary data is still data. I do understand that large databases means large backups and thus long backup time but if you have the data on disk you also have the data and you need to back it up as well. So to some extent it is: your database is

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread Steven Carr
I would love OTRS to shift the ticket increment into the database, the less I can store in the filesystem the better as far as I'm concerned. Does anyone know if this has been suggested or would anyone be willing to give their code to the project to try and get it implemented mainstream. Steve

Re: [otrs] NLB (load balancing) OTRS

2013-01-29 Thread David Boyes
bogdan: I think if the shared file system would be required just for attachments, it wouldn't need to be very fancy. I think OTRS doesn't modify what it has already written on disk for articles / attachments. So it only does reads and additional writes. No editing. It does rely on a consistent