Checking the status of a list of machines

[ma...@pncbank.com]

I am in the process of building a generic deployment process that uses ant.
All of the J2EE developers will use this process to deploy their code to
test, QA, and production Environments.
One of my tasks is the ability to check the status of the machines I am
going to deploy to before I start the process.
The user is going to give me a list of machines that they are going to
deploy to and I need to check each machine on that list.  How do I do this?

user 1 example input:
<pnc>
 <build>
  <config>
    <deploymachines>test1,test2,webtest1,webtest2</deploymachines>
  </config>
 <build>
<pnc>

user 2 example input:
<pnc>
 <build>
  <config>
    <deploymachines>ejbt1,ejbt2,webtest1,webtest2</deploymachines>
  </config>
 <build>
<pnc>

What I want to do is run a task that will (Order is not important)
(with user 1 input)
check test1
check test2
check webtest1
check webtest2

(with user2 input)
check ejbt1
check ejbtt2
check webtest1
check webtest2

Any help will be greatly appreciated both in the ant tasks and the way to
give the input to the ant script.


Mark Russell
PNC Financial Services Group
412-768-9603

Re: Checking the status of a list of machines

[peter reilly <pe...@corvil.com>]

One solution is to use xmlproperty and foreach from
ant-contrib.
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ant-contrib/manual

<project default="x">
  <property name="machine.file" value="input.xml"/>
  <target name="x">
    <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" />
    <xmlproperty file="${machine.file}"/>
    <echo message="${pnc.build.config.deploymachines}"/>
    <foreach param="machine" target="template-deploy-machine"
             list="${pnc.build.config.deploymachines}"
             inheritall="yes" inheritRefs="yes"/>
  </target>

  <target name="template-deploy-machine">
    <echo>Check Deploy on machine ${machine}</echo>
  </target>
</project>

Then use 'ant -Dmachine.file="test.xml" '
or 'ant' to use the  default file "input.xml"

Peter

On Thursday 01 May 2003 15:43, mark.russel@pncbank.com wrote:
> I am in the process of building a generic deployment process that uses ant.
> All of the J2EE developers will use this process to deploy their code to
> test, QA, and production Environments.
> One of my tasks is the ability to check the status of the machines I am
> going to deploy to before I start the process.
> The user is going to give me a list of machines that they are going to
> deploy to and I need to check each machine on that list.  How do I do this?
>
> user 1 example input:
> <pnc>
>  <build>
>   <config>
>     <deploymachines>test1,test2,webtest1,webtest2</deploymachines>
>   </config>
>  <build>
> <pnc>
>
> user 2 example input:
> <pnc>
>  <build>
>   <config>
>     <deploymachines>ejbt1,ejbt2,webtest1,webtest2</deploymachines>
>   </config>
>  <build>
> <pnc>
>
> What I want to do is run a task that will (Order is not important)
> (with user 1 input)
> check test1
> check test2
> check webtest1
> check webtest2
>
> (with user2 input)
> check ejbt1
> check ejbtt2
> check webtest1
> check webtest2
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated both in the ant tasks and the way to
> give the input to the ant script.
>
>
> Mark Russell
> PNC Financial Services Group
> 412-768-9603
>
>
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