I'm noticing some performance issues on my build server lately, in the process monitor I see that there are hundreds of powershell and conhost sessiosn open by the BuildMasterService (which is the user BuilMaster service runs as) is this normal or is something not closing processes as it should?
This is just one screen with around 50 processes, but there are a few more so I estimate about 300 processes running...

Hi,

I'm seeing this error quite regulary. At this point I'm running most deployments manually, when I re-execute the job succeeds, but I'm planning to move to more automatic deployment and then this will be an issue. Anything I can do about it?

@Justinvolved said in Possible to set Preload Enabled to true in IIS:EnSureSite?:

Preload Enabled

Hey Alana,

I will definitly give it a go. From what I can see in the Microsoft.Web.Administration docs it should be possbile.

To prevent me creating a fully untested PR, could you help me get started with setting up a dev environment for this? Then I can at least run a couple of tests in my own environment before submitting, but I'm not sure where to start...

Thanks,

Justin

Hi,

I'm looking to use Otter to setup a fresh server and make sure PowerShell in general, and some specific modules I'm using are installed.

Do you by any chance have basic example of such a task? For example how to check if PSGallery is trusted so I don't get:

I would probalby also need to set the Set-ExecutionPolicy, and I guess I might forget a lot of stuff here as well :-)

Thanks,
Justin

Hey Alana,

Turns out the error is already in the Collection step. When I set the variable to use PowerShell core the error is not there:

I do have powershell 5.1 installed on the server, and when I run a Get-Module -ListAvailable I get a valid result (this is the part where the Collect step errors...) When I run Get-Module -ListAvailable with a Module name that is not installed yet I get an empty line. Is the code somehow choking on the empty line? because it seems "Expected to start with a valid JSON token" does not expect an empty string..

Thanks,

Justin

Hi,

I'm trying to make sure the Azure powershell module is installed on certain server roles.

In the desired configuration OtterScript I have:

Ensure-PsModule
(
    Module: Az,
    Exists: true,
    Repository: PSGallery
);

This correctly detects the server as drifted:

When I then try to remediate the drift I get an error:

I'm not very experienced in remediating drift with otter in this way yet, so I might be missing something obvious?

Thanks,
Justin

Hi,

Is there any way I can make sure the setting "Preload Enabled" is set to true when I IIS::Ensure-Site

I would like my iis apps to be preloaded and stay up always...

https://i0.wp.com/www.taithienbo.com/wp-content/uploads/screenshots/IIS_Application_Initialization/Screen-Shot-2018-10-06-at-4.22.39-PM-2.png?w=437&ssl=1

Thanks,
Justin

Hey Alana,

Thanks, I opted to download the Service Security Settings tool for a bit more userfriendly setup of service permissions :-)
The Otter AppPool runs under Network Service, which I have now given full control of the Otter Service, but the error is still shown.
Anything else you think I could try?

Trying to add a screenshot, but I get an error :-(

Cheers,
Justin

Hi,

In installed Otter and soon found out I forgot to set the correct right for the Service user to the database. I fixed that and everything seems to work fine now, but when I execute a job, the screen shows:

The job does finish succesfully, so it might be a simple flag that is not reset?

Cheers,

Justin

Hi Dean,

Thanks for your reply.
My current setup is that I have one application, with one repo connected.
For a next version of the application I need to add a build from another repo to that same application.
My first thought was to add this repo to the same application, and then build both during the build step, as you describe in the last sentence indeed it will then always build/deploy from both repo's at the same time...

Right now I'm just using Git::Checkout-Code without any parameters, but when there ismore than 1 repo I think I need to specify which repo/branch/commit I would like to build from?
For now if I could just take the latest commit of the main branch of each repo I would be ok.

Also the same might apply later on in the deployment scripts, because there I use Deploy-Artifact();. But when there is more than 1 build, I think I need to make sure to get the right artifact connected to a build from a specifc repo.

I'm not sure if I'm on the right path with this to be honest, because I realize now I could probably also add the addtional repo as a seperate application, and then reference a latest build from that application in my current application. Any comments on what might be a better/easier setup I would appreciate very much :-)

Thanks.

Justin

Hello,

Bit of a noob question I'm afraid, but I just want to make sure I start on the right path. I need to setup an application that builds from 2 repositories, and in the release pipeline always takes the latest builds from both repo's for deployment. I have actually alrady been able to connect both repo's and create the builds, but how do I reference the latest builds in the deployment scripts?
I have so far only setup a pipeline for a single component, and there the connection to the build and artifact is implicit, but I guess for this scenario I need to define something more explicit?

Thanks,
Justin

Hi @atripp,

I'm using %(IPAddress: *, Port: 80, HostName: test.domain.local, Protocol: http) as a binding indeed.

I just noticed that this way of adding bindings is actually consideren legacy. So I will switch to using IIS::Ensure Site Binding instead, and wil just make sure all the bindings are there.

It might be an idea to add to the documentation the behaviour you described, for me it wasn't clear the operation would also remove bindings (I had Transfer Files in mind where a delete operation is explicitly set by parameter), but since it is a legacy feature that might be moot :-)

Thanks,

Justin

Hello,

I'm using IIS::Ensure-Site to create an IIS site for an applicaiton if it does not exist. When creating the site I would like to add only a http binding on port 80. I'm using WinACME which wil scan all IIS sites and add https 443 binding accordingly.

The problem I have now is that when re-running the deployment IIS::Ensure-Site will remove all bindings other than the one I have specified in IIS::Ensure-Site.

Is it possible to specify that IIS::Ensure-Site should check if the site exists with that binding, but then leaves additional bindings intact?

Thanks,
Justin

Hi,

I have a pipeline running that needs to be able to manage IIS sites. With the default service account setup running as NetworkService the IIS actions fail.
As a test I managed to get this working by using an Administrator account to run the BuildMaster service. Now I'm configuring a new Account the BuildMaster Service should run as, but I'm having some trouble getting the service to startup on that, with a 500.30 error.
Is there any documentation on the rights needed for the service account besides: https://docs.inedo.com/docs/buildmaster-administration-service ?

Seems I'm missing a basic security setting for the acount somewhere that will allow the service tp start properly...

Thanks,
Justin

Hey Steve,

Seems something was stuck somewhere, I re-created the resource and reset the service and now I can connect.

Cheers,
Justin

Hi,

Im trying to deploy an artifact to a server, first I want to deploy the App_offline.htm file.
I have created a global resource and credentials, but my deploy script complains no FTP server is specified, the ftp server address/port and username/pwd are in the resources/credentials what could I be doing wrong?

Apologies, this is a bit of a newbie question.
I have several instances of an application running for different customers. The codebase is the same, and the app is made specific for a customer through config files and database settings.
I now have 2 applications defined, but notice I have to start duplicating scripts and pipelines.

Is there a way I can setup buildmaster to share the buildpipelines and scripts, but keep the applications seperate so I can deploy specific config files?

Thanks,

Justin

Hi,

My buildmaster instance says the service and webapplication must be restarted, these message won't disappear, even after several restarts and a restart of the entire server

What triggers these messages?

Thanks,

Justin

Hi @atripp

The problem was gone after restarting the buildmaster service, thanks for your quick response!

Justin