configuration-management

Tracking development and staging environment

I'm working in a small development shop that maintains a fairly large number of custom software products. They have 3 environments -- Test, Staging, and Production where software is run from. The vast majority are web applications (ASP.NET) while a few are scheduled applications or Windows Services. The applications all interact with ...

SSIS configuration options where test & production are on the same server

I'm new to SSIS, my project is still in the early stages, with only dev & test environments on separate servers. The production environment will be on the same server as test (I don't have a say in that!). I have a number of packages that each have an SQL Agent job to schedule them and I need a way to handle package configurations for de...

How to manage apache configurations to make them more portable between servers?

The common issue: you move an application from one server to another, usually this means other directories to configure in your application configuration files and in apache conf files. How can you minimize if even eliminate the hardcoded paths in config files? In my case these applications are in languages like PHP, Python, Perl or Ru...

How to organize the work with sql files and windows in SSMS?

Why does SSMS (MS SQL Server Management Studio) continue to increase the appending numbers to windows and queries even if I open a new one after closing all previous? For ex., the window header of a newly created query is shown as "SQL query6. sql - localhost.databasename (ComputerName\Administrator (52))". How one can reuse these "help...

How to configure Cruise Control with CVS

I am first time using Cruise Control for Automation of build. Please Guide me how can I configure Cruise Control with my CVS Server. I installed Cruise Control , does it require any extra plug-in. how can I write config file, Where i have to place it. ...

Cruise Control.Net problem

Hi I am using Cruise Control.NET 1.3 and CVS-Server . When I run CCnet.exe from desktop. It gives following output at last line. "starting integrator for the the project " I don't know is it working or not. Not checking out the code from cvs, not creating any working directory. although my cc.cong file is very simple. It only contain t...

How to Configure and use web Dash Board In Cruise Control.NET

I Have a single project in my ccnet.config file. I build that project using MSBUILD.exe in .config file. Now I want to see the build results on web Dashboard, But i don't know , how to see and configure dashboard to view the build status. Kindly Help. Thanks ...