tag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:/discussions/general/21751-windows-patching-and-cascade-serverCascade CMS: Discussion 2015-07-10T17:25:23Ztag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/371137042015-06-12T21:00:12Z2015-06-12T21:00:12ZWindows Patching and Cascade Server<div><p>Good afternoon,</p>
<p>Are there any specific processes to follow or gotchas to watch
out for regarding Windows patching and automatic updates for the
server Cascade is installed on?</p>
<p>Has anyone ran into any reason scheduled Windows updates would
interfere with system reliability other than the momentary server
restart?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p></div>Justin Rogerstag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/371137042015-06-15T14:09:32Z2015-06-15T14:09:32ZWindows Patching and Cascade Server<div><p>Hi Justin,</p>
<p>I haven't ever had reports of Windows updates affecting
installations of Cascade Server. As long as the operating system
contains a supported JVM for Cascade to use everything should be
fine. If you're using Windows to host your database server as well,
you'll probably want to make sure that Cascade is shut down if/when
that server requires a restart. Then you can just start the
application again once the dependent database service is up and
running.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any followup questions! Perhaps others
can chime in here with their experiences as well.</p></div>Timtag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/371137042015-07-07T20:09:13Z2015-07-07T20:09:13ZWindows Patching and Cascade Server<div><p>Good afternoon Tim,</p>
<p>Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, our database is
hosted by a separate team from our instance of Cascade Server, by a
database administration team that also manages the databases of
over 100 other database applications. The team managing the Cascade
application server has a similar workload, and supports
applications from across the state. With the two support teams as
busy as they are, I just don't think it will be possible for us to
have Cascade Services shutdown whenever the database is
restarted.</p>
<p>What sort of issues would you expect to occur if Cascade Server
services are left running while the database server restarts? Any
ideas on how to work around them if we need to?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p></div>Justin Rogerstag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/371137042015-07-10T17:21:49Z2015-07-10T17:25:14ZWindows Patching and Cascade Server<div><p>Hey Justin,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What sort of issues would you expect to occur if Cascade Server
services are left running while the database server restarts? Any
ideas on how to work around them if we need to?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You actually might be OK here. My initial worries were that
something with the connection pool might go haywire, but I tested
stopping my local MySQL instance while Cascade was running and then
started the database up again and the application seems fine.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any additional questions! Otherwise,
have a great weekend!</p></div>Tim