[Building Sakai] Evalsys group sync job running?

[Joseph Delaney]

We’re currently running Evalsys 1.4.1, Sakai 2.9.1, Mysql 

Group sync sort of works. The issue that we’re having is that evalsys limits the quartz job to a specific instance of sakai while, apparently, quartz randomly chooses one of our 6 instances to run the job. If the instance that quartz chooses matches the evalsys configuration, then the groups sync. So we have a 1 out of 6 chance that it works. I can manually change the setting in evalsys, eventually getting the one that works (until something causes quartz to randomly reassign the job to  a different instance). 

On the other hand, group sync did work flawlessly all of last year, using the same sync code from evalsys 1.4.1 that we had patched in evalsys 1.3. We updated evalsys and Sakai simultaneously this summer, I suspect that quartz changed so that the limit in evalsys is no longer necessary (take that with a grain of salt, I administer the evaluations and don’t have enough technical background to be sure of anything). Charles Hedrick says he’s not sure why the limit was ever there to begin with.


Joseph Delaney
Center for the Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research
Rutgers University
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On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, sakai-dev-request at collab.sakaiproject.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:03:12 -0400
> From: "Kirschner, Beth" <bkirschn at umich.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Evalsys group sync job running?
> To: Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com>
> Cc: Sakai-Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> 
> That's exactly the configuration that we will be testing - we had previously tested Evaluations 1.4.1 with Sakai 2.7 and Oracle and had seen no problems. I'll let you know what we find if you could wait a couple weeks. Evaluations (trunk) is also running on the experimental nightly server (http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8085/portal) -- email is sent to the tomcat logs -- if you have a chance, let me know if it works or ails there.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Beth
> 
> On Oct 25, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We're using:
>> 
>> Evaluation System 1.4.1
>> Sakai 2.9.2
>> Oracle 10g
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:
>> We'll be testing this out in a couple weeks - we had tabled the effort for internal reasons, but are nearly ready to pick it up again.  What version of evaluations are you running? What's your underlying database?
>> 
>> - Beth
>> 
>> On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I haven't been able to verify that the evaluation system's group sync job runs when you schedule it via the Evaluation System's administration interface. I set up a cron expression for a few minutes in the future, then view the selected node's log, but nothing shows up. Interestingly, the job scheduler's event log shows *something* at that exact time, but that's all the feedback I get.
>>> 
>>> In contrast, if I add the job directly to the job scheduler and run it manually, the log shows that the job ran. But I don't think this will work because you can't pass it the parameters it needs, i.e. the states for which the evaluations will be synchronized ("InQueue" "Active"...).
>>> 
>>> Is anyone running this eval group sync job successfully?
>>> 
>>> Josh
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