Moodle StressTest
Monday, December 31st, 2007Translated Moodle stress test for technical partner Moodle Windows implementation. Collected some jmeter scripts and test course and sent. Hmm, what a load of crap. Room for improvement
Archive for December, 2007
Translated Moodle stress test for technical partner Moodle Windows implementation. Collected some jmeter scripts and test course and sent. Hmm, what a load of crap. Room for improvement
Moodle Customisation
Monday, December 31st, 2007Updated client site to see latest forum posts on homepage. Updated apache conf to redirect *.mydomain.nl -> add ServerAlias mydomain.nl to virtual host entry. Installed 2 sandboxes for client: latest stable (1.8.3) latest and greatest (1.9beta)
Blackboard User Directory
Thursday, December 20th, 2007In Bb, you can set the privacy settings of what information to show in the user directory (Home Tab -> User Directory). Click on Personal and then Set Privacy Options. Under 1, you can select what information to show. Under 2 you can select if you want ot list the info ...
Moodle load balancing
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Post on the Moodle forums about shared mountpoint when running a load balanced server. Point is you should use NFS with low latency (private network with hosts file?).
Moodle Customisation
Monday, December 17th, 2007Customised Front Page for Client: they want the latest forum posts on the front page. Restored production environment (TODO: write script to make a test environment based on production environment): backup production database restore production database to test database copy production data dir to test datadir set cookieprefix to testxxxxx copy production theme dir to test ...
MySQL performance tuning
Monday, December 17th, 2007tried to optimize mysql DB performance on server. Especially when querying groups and users there is a high load on the database. To show the type of DB-engine used for a database (and performance vars): SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM db_name; SHOW STATUS; SHOW VARIABLES; Set key_buffer = 256M and user queries went much faster, especially ...
PHP error
Monday, December 17th, 2007got php error for custom scripts at client: : No such file or directory: line 1: ?php so probably, php interpreter or something is not working correctly. Check it. Forgot to add php at the beginning of script. Then error remained: changed ../config to ./config and script worked again.
Installed Bb building block
Friday, December 14th, 2007Installed health check building block. Checks, amongs others, for orphaned content. That replaces the admin search in the CS tab on the syspanel. Orphaned Content Folder Removal Tool (System Health Check) Nice because it bypasses the problem of the error in the admin search of the CS.
Blackboard appserver mrtg install
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Installed MRTG on Bb application server: snmp services was already installed added mrtguser to snmp service community names (READ_ONLY) forgot to adapt some settings in config and other files so wrong settings in registry, edited paths in registry and service started. Damn, and now it's not working anymore. Anyway, there was also a ...
Bb stresstest analyser
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Installed stresstest result analyser scripts. Create database on bb database server: stresstest, table test_resultaten, o:sa Setup analysis environment installed logparser 2.2 (from MS website) Installed scripts on app server because they anyway have osql installed Adapted parameters in scripts Test run script, failed but if I run from command line all goes well: ok, I had ...
