Fedocal to prod

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 14:11 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:13:36 +0200
> Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > The fedocal application has been running smoothly on staging [1] for
> > few weeks now. We had some issues with the emails but figured it out
> > and it is now working fine.
> > 
> > We are considering moving it to prod. If you have not tested it yet,
> > you can still do so and report any eventual problem you encounter.
> > Otherwise I think we will move to prod pretty soon.
> > 
> > Just a remark, there is a redirection issue when login in, you might
> > need to re-add the .stg. in the url.
> > Hopefully, once in prod it won't redirect to .stg :)
> 
> Yeah, that should be fixed once we add it to prod I think. 
> 
> Anyhow, same two questions I had with blockerbugs: 
> 
> a) we should see if we can have it run fine in selinux enforcing mode.
> If possible, we should deploy it enforcing. 
> 
> b) we need to add some nagios checks for the production instances. What
> would be a good thing to check from the web to confirm that it's
> answering and the db is good, it's updating, etc? Some applications
> have a special /heartbeat/ url that outputs info, or we could just
> scrape it from existing pages. 

Maybe the global iCal feed would be one? But it might also hit the
server hard a bit too hard for this purpose.
Then I guess the front page is good enough since the front page already
will complain if it can't reach the DB.

Pierre