Server maintenance and operations – ACCELQ

Following diagram depicts high level component architecture of accelQ deployment.

Check your specific deployment instance to identify following folders.

Folder Name	Description	Recommended backup
Server Deployment folder	Folder where accelQ app server and web server are deployed. Scripts to start/stop application services are available here. Also contains log files for troubleshooting	Take a copy when deploying new release or a patch.
Database	Home location of db installation. All the test assets are stored as db repository here.	Back up once an hour is recommended. Consult with your DB admin for setting this up, including incremental vs. full backup options.
Agent	Folder where the agent is deployed. Scripts to start/stop agent are available here.	Take a copy during new deployments and patch updates.
Storage	Results and test jobs are stored here.	Test screenshots are stored here, while the reports are available in the database. Depending on risk tolerance, once or twice a day backup is sufficient.

All the services below, are set to auto-start upon restart of the server. You can stop/re-start these services from Services tab of the Task Manager.

Service	Purpose	Log File
aq_wildfly	Application server	aq_server.log under the server deployment folder
aq_www	Web server	aq_www.log under the server deployment folder
aq_nginx	Router/ Load balancer	aq_nginx.log under the server deployment folder
aq_agent	Agent	aq_agent.log under the agent deployment folder

You may run into performance issues if the disk storage is running too low. Consider following maintenance steps

Login to accelQ and delete old results from Results grid. You have an option to purge results older than given date.
Delete old, archived server log files from time to time. Refer to the folders section to identify various log folders.

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