OpenDeploy failure

iwcnb

I am using OpenDeploy 4.5.1 and it fails some of the times. Does anyone knows the reasons for the deployment to failure? I have a screen built to trace the deployment process. It will prompt if the the deployment did not go through. I am running into this quite often. I have to re-deploy several times to get it to go through.

Thanks,
Kevin

JamJamT

Have you checked the OD log? check the log to see what file(s) & reason for failure. Also if you're deploying to a live IIS server then IIS may have that particular file locked while it is "serving it up". Check out support article #1353 for more info.

tvaughan

I was using O.D. last Spring to get content out to about 30 different machines. The periodic rate of failure-- for no apparent reason --was about 3%, so when I did a deployment I could be pretty sure that on average 1 of those machines would be "out of synch" with the other 29 that got the deployment.

We would constantly monitor the deployment logs but the volume of our deployments was such that we started feeling like the Dutch boy trying to plug all the holes in the dikes.

We worked with Interwoven on the issue but were never able to figure out why O.D. periodically failed deploying the same file to one server when it succeeded in deploying that file to other servers.

In the end, we scrapped O.D. and wrote a custom deployment utility based on rsynch. It was messy and a custom job, but it worked 100% of the time. If 100% isn't necessary, then stick with O.D., but be aware that it gets flaky sometimes.