OLAT

Installation & Administration Documentation

MELS - Multimedia & E-Learning Services, University of Zuerich, Switzerland

Copyright © 2009 MELS - Multimedia & E-Learning Services, University of Zuerich, Switzerland

Table of Contents

1. OLAT easy installer

2. Install OLAT for production

2.1. New OLAT installation

Install the prerequisites
Getting the sources.
OLAT configuration

2.2. Database and UTF-8 configuration

MySQL
Postgres
Other databases
JUnit tests

2.3. Tomcat and Apache configuration

Standalone: Tomcat using the HTTP connector
Combined: Tomcat and Apache using the JK connector
MacOS X
Tomcat VM parameters and Operating System issues

2.4. Directory structure

2.5. Configuration Script

3. Enable additional components

3.1. WebDAV access

3.2. Full text Search

3.3. TeX math formulas in wikis

3.4. LDAP synchronization and authentication

LDAP configuration via build.properties
LDAP expert configuration
LDAP administration

3.5. Shibboleth authentication

3.6. Instant Messaging

Basic install
Features
Memory issues
Openfire Performance Tuning (cache)
File handlers

3.7. Setup MRTG server monitoring

4. The config files

4.1. Build.properties

4.2. webapp/WEB-INF/

APP.xml
blacklist.txt
log4j.properties.in
olat_buildingblocks.xml
olat_config.in
olat_extensions.in
olat_portals.in
olat_upgrades.xml
web.xml.in
treecache.xml.in

4.3. webapp/WEB-INF/src/serviceconfig

brasatoconfig.xml
org/olat/_spring/brasatoconfigpart.xml
org/olat/_spring/olat_userconfig.xml
org/olat/_spring/olatextconfig.xml
org/olat/core/_spring/olatcoreconfig.xml
org/olat/core/commons/scheduler/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/core/commons/scheduler/_spring/olatextconfig.xml
org/olat/ldap/_spring/olatextconfig.xml
org/olat/commons/modules/glossary/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/commons/coordinate/cluster/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/admin/sysinfo/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/course/auditing/remote/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/search/service/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/shibboleth/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml
org/olat/notifications/_spring/olatdefaultconfig.xml

5. Customize your installation

5.1. Internationalization and translations
5.2. Concept
5.3. Configuration
5.4. The online translation tool

6. Clustered OLAT

6.1. Clustered OLAT System Overview
6.2. Installation of ActiveMQ (JMS)
6.3. Configuration mod_jk as Loadbalancer
6.4. OLAT Cluster Properties

7. Administration

7.1. System information

sessions
infomsg
errors
loglevels
sysinfo
snoop
usersessions
locks
Multi-user events
Cluster
caches
Buildinfo
fstest

7.2. System configuration

Layout
Languages
Ajax Web 2.0 Mode
Quota Management

7.3. System registration

7.4. Instant Messaging Administration

7.5. Course activity

7.6. Properties

7.7. Advanced properties

Example Info Message
Example PASSED true for a certain test

7.8. Translation tool

7.9. Full Text Search Administration

7.10. Manual triggering the notifications

7.11. Access Rights

Examples

8. Deletion of unused users and resources from the system

8.1. User Deletion

User Deletion Workflow
Configuration of User Deletion

8.2. Delete inactive learning resources

8.3. Delete inactive project group

9. Upgrading from previous installation

9.1. General upgrade concept

9.2. Upgrading from 6.1.1 to 6.2.x

9.3. Upgrading from 6.0.x to 6.1.1

9.4. Upgrading from 6.0.0 to 6.0.3

9.5. Upgrading from 5.2.x to 6.0.0

9.6. Upgrading from 5.1.x to 5.2.x

9.7. Upgrading from 5.0.x to 5.1.x

Conversion of wiki's

9.8. Upgrading the 4.x.y series

Upgrading from 4.1.4 to 5.0.x
Upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.4
Upgrading from 4.0.2 to 4.1.1
Upgrading from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2
Upgrading from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1

9.9. Upgrading the 3.x.y series

Upgrading from 3.2.1 to 4.0.0
Upgrading from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1
Upgrading from 3.1.4 to 3.2.0
Upgrading from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4
Upgrading from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3
Upgrading from 3.1.0 to 3.1.2
Upgrading from 3.0.1 to 3.1
Upgrading from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1

9.10. Upgrading from 2.x

10. Contact, mailinglists and support

10.1. Mailinglists
10.2. Support

11. OLAT software license

12. Change history

List of Tables

3.1. LDAP configuration parameters in build.properties
7.1. Default Quotas
7.2. Access Rights Example 1
7.3. Access Rights Example 2

List of Examples

4.1. Definition of a user property
4.2. userPropertyHandlers is a list of previous defined properties
4.3. Home settings configuration

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