Maintenance Tasks; Maintenance Checklist; Restarting All Machines In A Cluster; Adding A New Interviewing Server To An Existing Cluster - IBM SPSS Data Collection Installation Manual

Maintenance tasks

Maintenance checklist

This section describes tasks that you may need to carry out periodically for the IBM SPSS Data
Collection Server applications. It includes:
IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Server

Restarting all machines in a cluster

Adding a new interviewing server to an existing cluster

Adding session engines to an IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Server
Updating passwords for IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Server components and
services
Deleting or truncating SQL log files
Changing the Web site port
Changing interviewing URLs and registration passwords
Recycling application pools
IBM SPSS Data Collection Survey Tabulation, IBM SPSS Data Collection Survey Reporter Server
Edition, and IBM SPSS Data Collection Author Server Edition
Updating passwords for IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Server components and
services
IBM SPSS Data Collection Survey Tabulation only
Running the variable edits migration tool
Restarting all machines in a cluster
If you need to restart all machines in a cluster, you should restart the machines hosting the Web
Service first, then the machines hosting the Database Service, and finally the machines hosting
the Interview Service.
Adding a new interviewing server to an existing cluster
There are two options for adding a new interviewing server to and existing cluster:
Use the
on the new server. This method requires the primary server to be shutdown and restarted.
Manually update files on the primary server and then run the installation on the new server.
This method does not require the cluster's primary server to be shutdown and then restarted.
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(applicable to IIS6 running on Windows 2003)
option from the cluster's primary server installation and then run the installation
Modify
if your site switches to using SSL
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