[Deploying Sakai] Content Previews & configuration options in OAE

[Eli Cochran]

This is how we're running it at Berkeley as well.

- Eli 

On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:40 PM, N. Matthijs wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> In theory, it is possible to run the preview processor on a server
> that runs Nakamura as well. However, the preview processor
> can be quite CPU intensive from time to time. Running it on a
> dedicated box also provides you the security that if something
> were to go wrong with the preview processor, it would have
> no devastating effect on the actual instance.
> 
> Therefore, we've been running bugbashes with the preview
> processor on a dedicated box, and pilot deployments like
> Cambridge will be doing the same. As a project team, we'd
> also recommend that. I would not expect the current preview
> processor to change significantly in the near future, so planning
> for a dedicated box should be a safe move.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Nicolaas
> 
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I am having great fun trying to get the preview processor up and running
>> on windows. I assume it's much simpler on a linux box... I was wondering
>> how people were using this, the config/deployment page recommends this be
>> run on a separate server to OAE, is that what everyone is doing for the
>> pilots?
>> 
>> We are currently designing our hardware architecture, we are hoping to run
>> clustered in march, (current thinking is) this requires a separate node
>> for solr, should we also be allowing for a separate node to run the
>> preview processor or will V1.1 have a different approach to this?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai-ui-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> [mailto:sakai-ui-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of N.
>> Matthijs
>> Sent: Friday, 26 August 2011 12:16 PM
>> To: Sakai UI Development
>> Subject: Re: Content Previews & configuration options in OAE
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> The list of supported content previews consists of:
>> 
>> - PDF and Office files (requires preview generator script)
>> - Text and HTML files
>> - Flash files
>> - Uploaded videos (only specific formats)
>> - Slideshare presentations (requires API key)
>> - Flickr images (requires API key)
>> - Youtube videos
>> - Vimeo videos
>> - Google Maps
>> - Amazon Kindle e-books
>> - Picasa images
>> - Videolectures.net lectures
>> 
>> Hope that helps,
>> Nicolaas
>> 
>>> Bert enlightened me this morning that some of the content previews need
>>> configuration (slideshare in this case).  I've found Alan's
>>> configuration page with the relevant instructions [1] but I'm not
>>> finding the laundry list of all content previews that are currently
>>> supported.  I want to do some thorough testing locally, so a list would
>>> be most helpful.
>>> 
>>> Can someone point the way?
>>> 
>>> thanks!
>>> 
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/OAE+Configuration+and+Deployment
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jon Hays
>>> Instructional Designer
>>> Educational Technology Services
>>> University of California at Berkeley
>>> (510) 643-9433
>>> 
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Eli Cochran
project manager, CalCentral project
manager of user experience design
Educational Technology Services, U.C. Berkeley

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