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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Scaling Redmine across multiple servers


It is very unlikely that you are going to need to scale Redmine very much. Needing to scale it would mean that you have hundreds or thousands of users working simultaneously on the system. However, after using Redmine intensively for several years, you might end up scaling it to improve response time.

Getting ready

Rule out the possibility that something else (such as network problems, virus, faulty hardware, or misconfiguration) is causing your server to work slowly or misbehave.

How to do it…

As you obviously made sure that you need to scale up Redmine, here is one technique on how scaling out (preferably on physical servers) can be achieved.

Note

If you are facing high server loads, make sure to check your network interfaces and use some advanced routing protocols, such as OSPF or BGP, to balance network traffic.

In the following image, you can see a proposed high-performance Redmine scale-out solution:

The proposed scheme is illustrating an example for...