How do you keep the local specs in sync on a Citrix Farm?

We have just added 2 Citrix servers to our existing terminal server so now we have a 'farm' environment.

Everything has been going well, except that the local specs on the machines get out of sync.

An example is a user logs onto one terminal server and recieves the correct processing and data selection options for a given UBE, however, if they log onto another terminal server and call up the same UBE, they do not have the same processing and data selection options.

How are you keeping your local specs in sync in Server farm environments?

After building a full or update package we always build a full set of global table specs for each environment we are deploying to and copy them to the pathcode on each server after deployment. We also throw in rebuilt copies of the data dictionary for good measure.

Graham Jones
JDE Administrator
Xe + update 5, Sun, Oracle, Citrix servers and Win 2000

Simon,

We deploy ONLY full packages to the TSE's (our farm has 42 TSE's), we also
send a full set of DD and Global Tables to each TSE. We had problems with
spec corruption even after we were this conservative. So we finally set
the shutdown script to re-copy the DD & GT whenever a shutdown is required.
We reboot our TSE's daily (at different times). So the DD & GT are
refreshed every 24 hours even if we don't deploy a package.

Hope this helps.

Tom Davidson








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