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Fredhopper Data Manager Components for the Deployment Agent

Rumyana Grigorova
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    Background

    The Fredhopper Data Manager is an enterprise ETL tool based on Pentaho Data Integration. In addition to creating data integrations it also has a number of steps to control your Fredhopper Application over the Deployment Agent

    Components explained

    The table below describes the various job steps available to control your Fredhopper deployment

    Name Description
    Adapt Fredhopper Instance Configures for a given instance the following options:
    • xmlloader memory
    • treebuilder memory
    • searchindexer memory
    • qserver memory
    • replication server memory
    • replication client memory
    • replication server port
    • replication client server host and
    • replication client server port.

      Using this step you are able to update one, all or any of the supported options at a time.
    Backup Fredhopper Instance Exports a backup (capture) from a given instance. This backup can be used later to restore the current state on the same or a different instance (see the "Recover from Backup" component below).
    Collect Business Logs Retrieves biz log files from a given qserver instance and transfers them to a specified instance where they will be collected and used for analysis.
    Control Indexers Starts / stops the indexers on a given instance (xmlloader, treebuilder and searchindexer).
    Control QServer Starts / stops a qserver on a given instance.
    Control Replication Client Starts / stops a replication client on a given instance.
    Control Replication Server Starts / stops a replication server on a given instance.
    Control Reporting Starts / stops a reporting server on a given instance.
    Create Instance Creates a new instance in a given deployment agent using a given Fredhopper installation (installed distribution).
    Create Initial Business Configuration Helps you create an initial FAS configuration and upload it to a given instance. You can configure one primary and many secondary universes. For each universe you can specify name, locale and live attributes.
    Import Business Config Uploads predefined business.xml and enrich.py files to a given instance.
    Install Fredhopper Installs a new FAS distribution into a given deployment agent.
    Provide Data Uploads a set of data xml files (grouped per universe) to a given instance. They can later be indexed and loaded in FAS. For indexing please see the "Control Indexers" component above.
    Recover from Backup Imports a backup (capture) into a given instance. This one is usually used to revert a given instance to a previous state or to replicate the state of one instance to another.
    Remove Fredhopper Installation Uninstalls an already installed FAS distribution from a given deployment agent. This will remove the installed distribution as well as all of the instances assigned to it.
    Remove Fredhopper Instance Removes a given instance from a given deployment agent.
    For this operation to be successful all running processes of that instance should be stopped first.
    Verify Loading Verify that all indexers are running and have finished indexing (loading) data successfully. Verification is repeated in intervals of 15 seconds until it succeeds or a certain (configurable) time out is reached.
    Wipe Indices Wipe indices (plus log files - optional) from a given instance.

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