[Opensim-dev] load region information/data from online (grid mode only of cource)

[Michael Heilmann]

Yes.  If I recall, we were doing both OpenSim.ini and Regions.ini from a 
sql backed php script, but we had trouble with processes starting up 
regionless, despite multiple configuration attempts to stop that behavior.

Michael Heilmann
Research Associate
Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida

On 03/19/2015 01:45 PM, Melanie wrote:
> I'm surprised that you were having issues with it as Avination
> doesn't use flat files at all, we web-load all configuration always
> and had zero failures doing that.
> Our configuration source is database tables and XML is produced on
> the fly using PHP scripts. Works perfectly every time.
>
> - Melanie
>
> On 19/03/2015 13:47, Michael Heilmann wrote:
>> On MOSES, we had been loading the configuration files across the network
>> 1-2 years back.  However, it was unreliable (failing to load the url for
>> unknown reasons), and sometimes did not behave as expected (some values
>> did not appear to be respected).  The functionality appears to be rarely
>> used by other grids, so the testing is low.  We now have a monitoring
>> process on our region host that pulls the remote config from the url,
>> and then writes the expected OpenSim.ini file before starting
>> OpenSim.exe.  The reliability and behaviour improved when we made the
>> switch.
>>
>> Michael Heilmann
>> Research Associate
>> Institute for Simulation and Training
>> University of Central Florida
>>
>> On 03/18/2015 03:56 PM, André Verwijs wrote:
>>> Question:
>>>
>>> would it possible to load region information/data from online (grid mode
>>> only of cource)  when setting up a "clean" instance (new database)
>>>
>>> opensim.ini:
>>>      ;# {regionload_webserver_url} {region_info_source} {URL to load
>>> region from?} {}
>>>      ;; Determines the page from which regions xml is retrieved if you are
>>>      ;; loading these from the web.
>>>      ;; The XML here has the same format as it does on the filesystem
>>>      ;; (including the <Root> tag), except that everything is also enclosed
>>>      ;; in a <Regions> tag.
>>>       ; regionload_webserver_url = "http://example.com/regions.xml";
>>>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> maybe experiment with this..??
>>>
>>>
>>> André
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