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david.birdsall

2004-08-09, 5:58 pm

Hi,

I was in the middle of creating a WebSphere Commerce instance remotely using Windows' remote desktop and stupidly thought that I could close down the client window and re-connect in the morning to see it sitting there with a big "finished" dialog box.

To put a long story short, I've messed up big, and the installer was cut dead in its tracks.

Has anyone ever done anything similar, and how easy was it to recover, because I imagine that everything will be in an inconsistant state, i.e. the files that were being manipulated, the database tables etc.

Tomorrow morning I am hoping that I should be able to start again by running the configuration manager and hopefully, the most I'll need to do is drop the "demo" database I created during installation.

I realise that this is wishful thinking I have probably messed up, and at the same time look a complete fool in front of everyone at the company I am doing the project for.

If anyone's had a similar experience and got through it, if you could let me know, it would be really appreciated.

As I've posted before, I am new to this and I'm trying my best doing this on my own, with all the documentation off the IBM website. I look incompetent enough without all these problems I'm having.

Thanks in advance for any help or guidance...
Vincy Gonsalves WC ATS

2004-08-12, 5:58 pm

This is not a fatal problem. You should be able to recover quite easily.

The Commerce Application consists of two things 1)app server 2)
database, the two are created and deployed by the Configuration Manager.

So first find out how far your instance creation got by reviewing under
your Commerce/instances folder <your instance name>/logs directory.

Reviewing that would lead you on the recovery. If the database was
created but not populated... drop it ... if the enterprise app was not
created successfully, try using the WAS admin gui to remove it....

Bonus: After you get your instance created, create backup of your db
and WC.Ear file, that way if you want to start 'fresh' you can just
restore those instead of cleaning up.... might save you some time...

Hope it gets easier for you.

david.birdsall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was in the middle of creating a WebSphere Commerce instance remotely using Windows' remote desktop and stupidly thought that I could close down the client window and re-connect in the morning to see it sitting there with a big "finished" dialog box.
>
> To put a long story short, I've messed up big, and the installer was cut dead in its tracks.
>
> Has anyone ever done anything similar, and how easy was it to recover, because I imagine that everything will be in an inconsistant state, i.e. the files that were being manipulated, the database tables etc.
>
> Tomorrow morning I am hoping that I should be able to start again by running the configuration manager and hopefully, the most I'll need to do is drop the "demo" database I created during installation.
>
> I realise that this is wishful thinking I have probably messed up, and at the same time look a complete fool in front of everyone at the company I am doing the project for.
>
> If anyone's had a similar experience and got through it, if you could let me know, it would be really appreciated.
>
> As I've posted before, I am new to this and I'm trying my best doing this on my own, with all the documentation off the IBM website. I look incompetent enough without all these problems I'm having.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or guidance...


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