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help shutting down and starting up my GAD v4 servers correctly

Added by Brock Albitz almost 6 years ago

Hello,

I need some help shutting down and starting up my GAD v4 servers correctly, running on CentOS. From my understanding we have a mix of web, asterisk, kamailio, and database servers. Somehow these are load balanced as well. I'm very new to GAD / Linux. We just had to part ways with a company because they couldn't get our customized GAD implementation working properly, so after 4 very long years, the project was scrapped. The reason is there were a lot of customized UI bugs, and errors, and what I believe is just a lack of understanding the services they're selling -- lots of wrong information from them.

However, we have 1 office still using the system until we find a replacement (because it would be very destructive to switch them right now). They rather just work through the bugs and problems instead of switching back to our old DOS caller.

I wanted to take image backups of the host servers just in case we needed to do bare metal restores (and also I'd like to repurpose a few of them as Windows hypervisors), and realized I didn't know how to shut them down properly.

I attached a spreadsheet of the servers, and what I know about them.

My concern is the containers may not start up properly, or the services may not start up when the containers start up, etc. I'm looking for someone to help me come up with a shutdown / startup procedure to make sure everything is working after a shutdown / startup of the environment.

Ideally the startup procedure would include:
1. the order the containers need to be started back up.
2. the services that may need to be manually started
3. the commands to start the services

Ideally the shutdown procedure would include:
1. the order the containers need to be shut down.
2. the services that may need to be manually stopped
3. the commands to stop the services

If anyone can help that would be delightful!


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RE: help shutting down and starting up my GAD v4 servers correctly - Added by Demian Biscocho almost 6 years ago

Hey Brock,

The main database CT (container) needs to start first before the meetme CTs. The meetme CTs will connect to the database CT when starting Asterisk. It (Asterisk) will fail to start if the database CT is unreachable.

The web servers/CTs can be started anytime. They won't connect to the database CT until a user/agent will open up the GOautodial application.

Most of the containers are CentOS 7.X based so you need to do a crash course on it.

Starting services:

systemctl start service_name

Starting Apache/HTTPD:

systemctl start httpd

Starting MariaDB:

systemctl start mariadb
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