Quick build Best practices guide. #3173

Hi Robin & Team,

We are supporting around 50+ applications for build and deployment using QuickBuild ver 5.1.
We would like to hear from your team for Best Practices / Quick Resolutions available for common issues in QuickBuild.

For ex,
Issue 1: User Agent machine runs out of space.
Solution: Middleware (Or Server) team would have to clean the old files on the application server.

Issue 2: QuickBuild Agent is down. Users not able to promote the Build
Solution: Need to check with Middleware (Or Server) team to restart the QuickBuild agent service.

Similarly,
we are looking for documentations available for known similar issue and its resolutions.
It would be great, if you can share the best practices guide for QuickBuild tool.

We do not have formal best practices for QB, although this form contains a lot of commonly faced issues and some resolutions. We also compiled some of them as tutorial: http://wiki.pmease.com/display/QB60/Bui ... +Tutorials
For the issue you are facing:
1. I'd suggest to schedule a configuration to do cleanups on your build agents periodically. It can execute the step of type "Maintenance/Workspace cleanup" to do its job, and if configured with step repetition options (check advanced setting of this step), it can execute on selected set of agents to perform the cleanup.
2. As to agent offline, I'd suggest to add some backup agents, so that if one agent goes offline, other agent can run subsequent builds before original agent comes back.