+1 for lots of ideas in this approach. I worked on a Mark Logic project in which we had a config XML derived from what you can find in the Data directory. We had an deploy.xqy which accepted an externally supplied config XML to do the deployment from a clean install, or apply updates over an earlier installed copy. To simplify things, this deploy.xqy was put between the Admin xqy's themselves, though used Admin API to do the deployment. You only needed one HTTP Post from anywhere to get the app deployed.
There was also a script that could do the reverse, dump a config XML from a (manually tweaked) installation.. Kind regards, Geert PS: You can also find some projects on http://developer.marklogic.com/code, which more or less elaborate on this theme.. Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Rix, Brad Verzonden: woensdag 8 juni 2011 17:55 Aan: General MarkLogic Developer Discussion Onderwerp: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] automating initial configuration I gave a presentation at the Denver and NY user groups on this subject on our implementation for configuration and deployments. Here is a link to that presentation. You do not have my additional verbiage, but it should give you an idea on one approach. We did the exact thing that you were doing to start with an empty system and it creates the app servers, databases, element range indexes, etc. http://www.meetup.com/den-mark-logic/files/ [cid:[email protected]] Brad Rix Senior Developer +1 (303) 542-2172 | Office +1 (303) 915-2771 | Mobile [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.flatironssolutions.com IM: AIM: BradRix MSN: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Sokolsky Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:46 AM To: General MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] automating initial configuration Hi Gary, Generally, you use the Admin API to create scripts to create the dbs, forests, App Servers, and so on. This book talks about the Admin API: http://docs.marklogic.com/4.2doc/docapp.xqy#display.xqy?fname=http://pubs/4.2doc/xml/adminAPI/title.xml If you want to script the installation too, I know people who have done that with curl or other command-line http tools (against the Admin Interface). Then, you generally would create some load scripts to populate the databases with your content. The new in 4.2 info API is a good place to start with that. -Danny From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Larsen Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 6:58 AM To: 'General MarkLogic Developer Discussion' Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] automating initial configuration Hi, What is the best technique for automatically configuring a new MarkLogic installation with databases, forests, app servers, security, element range indexes, fields, etc? ML will be used as an OEM database for an application so each installation will be identical (except for host name I guess) but the solution will need to be platform independent. Thanks for any recommendations. gary
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