Chapter
5
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
fi
les
Changing the Web site port
Changing interviewing URLs and registration passwords
if your site switches to using SSL
Recycling application pools
(applicable to IIS6 running on Windows 2003)
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
fi
rst, then the machines hosting the Database Service, and
fi
nally 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
Modify
option from the cluster’s primary server installation and then run the installation
on the new server. This method requires the primary server to be shutdown and restarted.
Manually update
fi
les 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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