Operations Guides

The Studio Conductor operations guides are based on the experience of our field support engineers in real customer situations and verified by our R&D engineers for accuracy. You can use the guides to see the flow of Studio Conductor deployment and troubleshooting operations.

Conductor High Availability Cluster Upgrade Guide

Upgrading a Conductor Compact Cluster (3 nodes) If the initial cluster installation was done using the Conductor Cluster Manager, follow this simplified process. Updating a Conductor compact cluster leveraging the Conductor Cluster Manager You can use the Conductor Cluster Manager tool to upgrade a compact cluster: Upgrade your Conductor Cluster Manager by running sudo yum install -y <Conductor Manager Installation RPM> On the host that has Conductor Cluster Manager installed, run cfy_cluster_manager upgrade.

Studio Conductor Backup and Restore Guide

Overview Snapshots provide a way for backing up the state of the Conductor Manager. A snapshot should be taken on a daily basis (suggest in an off peak time) and can be automated using the REST API as an alternative to an operator manually running the snapshot as shown here in this user guide. Backing up the virtual machine that the Conductor Managers run on should be done at regular intervals, this would be dictated by a backup policies and would likely involve daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups as required.

Studio Conductor System Processes and Logging Guide

The purpose of this document is to provide detailed information for: Identifying Conductor Manager’s processes Defining how these processes should be tracked for monitoring and alerting Defining locations of Conductor Manager log files Studio Conductor System Processes In a Conductor Manager environment, the following system processes exist: User Command Description cfyuser nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf Nginx web server (REST API) root process nginx nginx: worker process Nginx web server (REST API) child process stage_u+ /usr/bin/npm –prefix /opt/cloudify-stage/backend run start React.