Automatic Migration and Deployment

[rafaborges]

Hi there!

First of all, congrats on the fantastic work you have done on Rapid SCADA. It’s an amazing piece of software and I see a bright future for it!

I’m in the process of creating an automatic deployment pipeline and I’d like to deploy a fully configured Rapid SCADA instance. I have already created the connections, tables and views, and everything works just fine. I’ve created the views on a Windows machine and I’m following the steps described on the Migrate Configuration to New Server topic of the manual. The problem is that, accordingly to the documentations, the last step is fully manual:

Open the project in the Administrator application and upload the configuration to the new server with the button, unchecking the Restart Server and Restart Communicator checkboxes.

Is it possible to, somehow, automate this process? As I said, I want to deploy everything automatically and I don’t want to give access to the Admin utility.

Thanks!

[Mikhail]

Hi,

Thank you for your appreciation of the project.
Assume, you have all project files in some directory. How do you need to start project deployment?
What version of Rapid SCADA do you use?

I suppose, there should be a command-line utility that does deployment and can be run automatically.

[rafaborges]

Hi Mikhail,

Yes, following the instructions, I do have the following directories in a zip file:

C:\SCADA\ArchiveDAT
C:\SCADA\ArchiveDATCopy
C:\SCADA\BaseDAT
C:\SCADA\Interface
C:\SCADA\Projects
C:\SCADA\ScadaAgent\Config
C:\SCADA\ScadaComm\Config
C:\SCADA\ScadaServer\Config
C:\SCADA\ScadaWeb\config
C:\SCADA\ScadaWeb\storage

I’m using version 5.8.4. I do have a script that unzip it to /opt/scada and files sit at the correct location. If there’s a CLI call to execute the last step, that would be great!

Thanks!

[Mikhail]

Hi,

We could develop such utility application by a contract.
You can also develop it with C#. The utility should connect the Agent service and send a packed project like the Administrator app does.
I suppose, it’s better to develop a new app for Rapid SCADA 6.

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