Eyestreet "Content Deploy" Tool

This is a java-based tool that will "deploy" or copy content from an Alfresco WCM repository source to another (target) location.

The target location can be local or remote and can be a file system or other CMS.

Target Configuration:

I used ISDA-IST1 as the target machine for testing.

• unpacked the software into /usr/local, creating /usr/local/cd-1.00.13 (the content deploy home directory, aka $CDHOME).
• made the following changes in the files:
  • set executable bits on three scripts in bin: cda, wrapper, and deploy
  • set the location of the Java binary in bin/wrapper.conf:
    wrapper.java.command=/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/java
  • configured the agent (aka listener) by modifying etc/cda.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<agent-config>
        <admin bind-address="localhost" bind-port="21008" />
        <server bind-address="18.92.0.199" bind-port="21009">
                <permit host="18.92.1.223" key="">
                        <path location="/root/sturner/contentdeploy" />
                </permit>
        </server>
</agent-config>

This allows connections from 18.92.1.223 (isda-cs2) and allows deployment to /root/sturner/contentdeploy

• The agent/listener is started by typing:
  $CDHOME/bin/cda start

• The agent is stopped by:
  $CDHOME/bin/cda stop

Source Configuration:

I used ISDA-CS2 as the source machine for testing.

• installed the software in /usr/local, as on the target machine

• tweaked the $CDHOME/bin/deploy script so that the location of the java binary was correct:
  JAVA_EXE=/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/java

• moved the avm-remote context config from $CDHOME/conf/tests to $CDHOME/conf. I didn't make any changes to this config file, as I wanted to deploy from the local machine.

• created a deployment config file based on the Eyestreet samples under $CDHOME/conf. My file is $CDHOME/ist1-test.xml

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<deployment-config>

    <sources>
        <alfresco-avm-remote-source
                id="alfresco-cs2"
                context-file="source-avm-remote-context.xml"
                repository-path="steveweb:/www/avm_webapps"
                snapshot="-1"
                user="admin"
                password="PASSWORD-GOES-HERE"
                root-path="/ROOT"
        >
        </alfresco-avm-remote-source>
    </sources>

    <targets>
        <filesystem-target
                id="ist1-fs"
                root-path="/root/sturner/contentdeploy">
                <cd-agent-config ip-address="18.92.0.199" port="21009" />
        </filesystem-target>
    </targets>

    <deployments>

        <deployment
                id="alfresco-cs2-to-ist1-fs"
                active="t"
                source-refid="alfresco-cs2"
                target-refid="ist1-fs"
                source-path="/"
                recurse="/"
                target-path="/"
                overwrite="f"
        />

    </deployments>

</deployment-config>

Deploying content

Finally, to deploy content, I issued these command:

cd $CDHOME/bin
./deploy ../conf/ist1-test.xml

This copies files from the staging sandbox of the "steveweb" web project on isda-cs2 into the file system on isda-ist1 under the directory /root/sturner/contentdeploy.