1252643 - Update product details on a regular basis on the dev server

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Shield :: General, defect)

Description

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

All normandy server environments should be running `python manage.py update_product_details` on a regular basis to get the latest updates to product details. Probably once a day.

A possible problem: We want all the webheads to have the same files on the filesystem for product_details, but we also have a hook into product_details that updates the database when we pull the latest files, and we only want that to run on the admin node.

How do we make all the webheads stay in sync, while keeping them updated on a daily basis, and while only running the database-update portion of update_product_details once on the admin node? This may require some changes to how we update the database to separate it from the normal update_product_details run.

Comment 1

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

We use the database backend for product details, not the file one. There is no worry about running this multiple times to get the webheads stay in sync. We can run it once in a central place (like the admin node_, and that will take care of everything.

Daniel: We'll need some sort of scheduled tasks for this. Cron would work great, or something like cron. It will basically just need to run `./manage.py update_product_details` once a day.

Comment 2

[Daniel Thorn [:relud]]

There is a cron job for this now.