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Listing of Koha demo installation
by Michael Kuhn 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Please change the information about my Koha demo installation on the page http://koha-community.org/demo/ The new settings of my installation are as follows: MARC flavor: MARC21 OPAC: http://koha.adminkuhn.ch/ Staff interface: http://koha.adminkuhn.ch:8080/ Staff login: demo / demo Provider: Admin Kuhn GmbH (Switzerland) I also provide a single point of entry on http://adminkuhn.ch/wiki/Koha-Demoinstallation which automatically logs you in without needing any username or password. Best wishes: Michael Kuhn -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik(a)adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch

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Vote on location of next Koha-US conference
by Christopher Davis 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Greetings Koha Users, I am please to announce that voting for the proposed location of next year's annual Koha-US conference is now open to the public. Please visit <http://koha-us.net/index.php/Vote_on_location_of_meeting> to cast your vote before January 6th, 2017 when the voting period ends. Take care, Christopher Davis Secretary, Koha-US cgdavis(a)uintah.utah.gov [Please excuse cross-postings of this message]

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sipconfig.txt
by Ahmet Melih Başbuğ (Google Drive üzerinden) 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Sizinle bir öğe paylaştım: sipconfig.txt https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1DQhFmcfk91dWJNUXNKRkFJbHh2RDZGblc4MUQtMG… Bu öğe ek değildir, çevrimiçi olarak depolanmaktadır. Söz konusu öğeyi açmak için yukarıdaki bağlantıyı tıklamanız yeterlidir.

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Re: [Koha] (no subject)
by Indranil Das Gupta 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Hello Mehvish, Thanks for clearing that up! :-) Since you are using 16.05 you do not need to jump through those hoops at all. In other words, the instructions in the PDF are not required. Simply edit the "Other options" section of your MARC21 frameworks 856 $u and set the value for "Plugin" to "upload.pl'. And fix your koha-conf.xml, the <upload_path> setting should read as <upload_path>/var/lib/koha/<put_your_instance_name_here>/uploads</upload_path> hope this helps -indranil -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Mehvish Farah <mehvishfarah(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Indranil, > Thanks for your reply. > Attached is the file that I followed. > > Version 16.5 and deb package > > I followed the file (attached) but i am stuck on step 6 where it says upload > docs while cataloging.book uploads and then says check permission. > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Mehvish >> >> Quick questions: >> >> a) what version of Koha are you using and how was it installed - (i) >> deb package or tarball? >> >> b) what is the full path to this folder that you mention has all the >> permissions for everyone? >> >> c) Have you linked your selected MARC21 framework's 856 $u field to >> the upload.pl plugin? >> >> regards >> -indranil >> -- >> Indranil Das Gupta >> L2C2 Technologies >> >> Phone : +91-98300-20971 >> WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in >> Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in >> IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net >> Twitter : indradg >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Mehvish Farah <mehvishfarah(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I am not able to upload ebooks in the designated folder.it says check >> > permissions although the destination folder is open to everyone. >> > >> > -- >> > *Mehvish* >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > -- > Mehvish

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a request to be added
by LibCon GmbH 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hi community, please add us under Germany,Austria, Europe as a paid support provider Thanks in advance and for doing a really great job. Company Name: LibCon GmbH - Library Concepts Contact Person: Patrick Jorks Contact email: info(a)lib-con.eu <mailto:info@lib-con.eu> Website: www.lib-con.eu <http://www.lib-con.eu> Telephone: +43 720 2717 10

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A question about using "koha" while registering a domain name.
by Indranil Das Gupta 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Kia ora What is the K-C policy on community members registering domain names that include "koha" as a part of the domain name? To be clear I do not mean a sub-domain part. AFAICT, this wasn't a recommended practice, with the exception of Koha user groups. thanks -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg

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Re: [Koha] Error in SIP2's encoding when clients connect parallel in same time
by Ahmet Melih Başbuğ 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hello I changed privacy of file. By the way i put some info of file in here <login id="test1" password="test1" delimeter="|" error-detect="enabled" institution="34" encoding="utf8"/> And I have question about server parameters. I configured like that <server-params min_servers='15' min_spare_servers='8' log_file='Sys::Syslog' syslog_ident='koha_sip' syslog_facility='local6' /> Is it wrong? Should i do min_servers=' 1' and in_spare_servers=' 0 ' ? Thanks Ahmet Melih

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(no subject)
by Mehvish Farah 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

I am not able to upload ebooks in the designated folder.it says check permissions although the destination folder is open to everyone. -- *Mehvish*

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Re: [Koha] MySQL database server, dedicated vs virtual
by Paul A 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

At 02:02 PM 12/4/2016 +0000, Marcel de Rooy wrote: >Please note: >Staying at Koha 3.8 is not recommended. The current release (16.11 == >3.26) is already 9(!) release cycles behind.. >And I would not advise others to do so. Marcel -- I don't know how you could read my comments as a "recommendation" or "advice" to stay with Koha 3.8.24. I mentioned, in response to RG's post "... was about 60-80% slower... ", that we had done some lengthy analysis of search speed (which I carried out with the assistance of the the Koha community and openly made available) and made the disappointing decision to remain with that version, under our specific circumstances. And I concluded with "YMMV" which stands for "your mileage might vary." Perhaps I should have been clearer: Koha was our indisputable choice for an OPAC (3.4.x) back in 2011; we are not a lending library, so the undoubted enhancements for lending libraries are irrelevant to our needs; the corollary is that if such enhancements have negative effects on our requirements, we very definitely look at them (sandbox level) but will not use them in production (i.e. on the public web interface.) Our production servers are all Ubuntu LTS based: this is a two to five year cycle; we do not have the budget or necessary volunteer hours to review monthly or bi-monthly changes (except security concerns); our overriding concern is total, hands-off stability; I have no idea if we are the only Koha-based library that uses a similar LTS approach. Koha 3.8.24 was released 5/29/2014, corresponding to the Ubuntu 14 LTS cycle. We recently upgraded two of our production servers to Ubuntu 16 LTS for other databases, but unless I am mistaken Koha 16.11 does not install (or at least not easily in our experience, and we have tried) on that o/s. So we maintained an additional, dedicated 14 server (with three years remaining Ubuntu support to 2019) for the OPAC when we followed the Ubuntu cycle. Again, this was disappointing, and again this represents only our very specific needs. So, when I say "your mileage might vary" I mean exactly that -- we probably are atypical of many Koha users, but are extremely happy and proud of our Koha OPAC -- so, if it wasn't clear, let me state that our analysis of search speed is *not* any sort of recommendation. Best regards -- Paul >Marcel > > >________________________________ >Van: Koha <koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> namens Paul A ><paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com> >Verzonden: vrijdag 2 december 2016 21:53 >Aan: koha >Onderwerp: Re: [Koha] MySQL database server, dedicated vs virtual > >Roger, > >We also looked into the "search performance" last year. We are not a >lending library, so cataloguing and OPAC are our primary concerns. Please >see <http://navalmarinearchive.com/z_koha/> for the detailed tech analysis >and conclusions. > >You mention below that "Koha does not benefit a lot from multiple CPU cores >since each CGI request is typically processed by one CPU except for the >Zebra searches and database queries which run as separate processes." > >I talked to Intel about CPU core cross-threading as it was a very obvious, >high-load, show-stopper with Zebra. The Zebra author never replied to my >queries. Intel were not optimistic, as kernel (and software) were not their >bailliwick. I do not know if Plack or Elastic have worked around this. > >These are hardware (perhaps software usage of core capability), not Koha, >restrictions. Tweaking memcached can have appreciable benefits. But the >bottom line remains that if a single CPU core hits 101-104%, search >functions descend into the "swimming upstream in treacle" world. > >We made the very conscious (but disappointing) decision to stay with Koha >3.8.24 based on our test results. I do spend quite some time testing later >versions at "sandbox" level, but have not been able to reproduce "older" >search speed. > >YMMV -- Paul >Production: Koha 3.8.24 on 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-43-generic >x86_64), 8-core I7 processors, 64 Gigs RAM, all SSD drives. > > > > >At 06:47 PM 12/2/2016 +0100, Roger Grossmann wrote: > > >Hi Tobias, > > > >a few month ago we did comparisons measuring the Koha-OPAC-Search > >performance with plack and memcached enabled using version 3.22. > >Our tests were not scientifically organised. We wanted to gather > >experience running Koha in different environments. We used the same MySQL > >database and Koha version in all environments. We did two types of OPAC > >searches on a limited collection of about 50.000 titles: an 'a*'-search of > >the complete word index and some special searches with fixed title search > >terms. > >We tested the following environments: > > > >1) Full Koha installation on a cloud provider hosted VM (the performance > >of VMs of the specific hoster were high ranked in published comparisons): > >Debian 8 on a cloud hosted system with virtual 2CPUs, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD > >2) Full Koha installation on a physical server: Debian 8 on a well > >equipped physical machine with 64 GB RAM, 4 processors, 250 GB SSD > >3) Full Koha installation on a kvm-VM on a physical server: Debian 8 on a > >well equipped machine with 64 GB RAM, 4 core CPUs, kvm VM with Debian 8 > >4) Koha running on a physical machine like 2) and 3) with a separate > >physical DB Server. Koha and DB server were connected through a 1 GB > network. > > > >Our findings were the following: > >No wonder, environment 2 was the fastest. Running Koha on a physical > >server with the database on the same machine brings optimal performance. > >As a surprise, environment 3 had a performance closed to environment 2 > >with a difference of max. 5% performance loss. The kvm virtualiser seems > >to add very little overhead. Advantages of environment 3 are beside the > >high performance that it is possible to copy and save the VM doing updates > >and so on. We did not test running multiple kvm-VMs on the same host. > >Rather than running instances in separate VMs, Koha's concept of managing > >instances makes the use of one host very efficient. Running multiple > >instances in one machine requires less maintenance than running multiple > >VMs each with one Koha instance. > >Environment 1 was about 60-80% slower than environment 2. We got varying > >results probably depending on the load of the provider based environment. > >Server requests in environment 4 took double the time of environment 1. It > >seemed that the network latency and transmission of data between DB Server > >and Koha is a bottleneck here. > > > >We can recommend option 3. It brings an optimum of performance with the > >flexibility of a virtualised environment. For a single Koha instance you > >probably do not need more than 2 CPUs cores. Typically you can improve the > >database performance with an optimised database configuration > >(specifically the page buffer if you have enough RAM). So using >=16 GB > >RAM should be well equipped from my perspective. > >Key parameters to speed up Koha were in our tests the hard disk speed (use > >SSDs) and CPU speed. Koha does not benefit a lot from multiple CPU cores > >since each CGI request is typically processed by one CPU except for the > >Zebra searches and database queries which run as separate processes. > >Additional CPU cores can be useful if the load is high on the server when > >processing many parallel requests. > > > >Doing searches, the Zebra indexer impacts the speed very much. In our > >tests Zebra took about 50% or more of the request time. I assume that the > >planned change to Elasticsearch will result in performance improvements in > >the future. > > > >Best regards, > >Roger > > > >-- > >LMSCloud GmbH > >Roger GroÃmann - GeschÃÂ¤ftsfÃÂ¼hrer > >Konrad-Zuse-Platz 8 - D-81829 MÃÂ¼nchen > >e roger.grossmann(a)lmscloud.de > >w www.lmscloud.de<http://www.lmscloud.de> > > > > > Am 01.12.2016 um 18:03 schrieb tobias carlsson > > <tobias.carlsson(a)bitlabbet.se>: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm currently working with a Koha implementation in a public library in > > > southern Sweden. Our installation (it's not live yet) is currently on a > > > virtual machine running Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS and the version of Koha > > > is 3.22. The MySQL database also resides on the same virtual server. > > > > > > I've tried some at home - on a Koha test server running under Debian > > > with the MySQL database on a machine running Ubuntu Server 14.04 (with a > > > Core i3 4170 @3,7 GHz (stock), with a quite slow Western Digital Red. > > > The difference between running on "bare metal" and virtual seem rather > > > striking. Is there anyone out there who have moved from virtual running > > > databases to physical? What can you tell us about this? > > > > > > I know that a database server should run with good I/O performance and a > > > fast CPU and lots of RAM and so on, but since I'm a librarian, not an > > > engineer (that sounded familiar...), I have limited experience of > > > dealing with servers in a large scale and I'm no expert on databases. > > > > > > I'm aware of database optimizations and the use of plack and memcached, > > > but running the database on a "bare metal" server with a high clock, > > > made me start thinking of how we should deal with the database. It seems > > > to me that many libraries use virtual servers for everything, even > > > databases and that it's common to run Koha and server on the same > > > (virtual) instance. > > > > > > Please share your experiences and thoughts about this. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Tobias Carlsson > > > Systems Librarian and IT Technician > > > > > > Currently working with Koha at Vaggeryds bibliotek (Vaggeryd public > > > library) in Sweden. > > > Working as a Systems Librarian at Gislaveds bibliotek. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > >Koha --Discussion list for the Koha Library >system<https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha> >lists.katipo.co.nz >To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Koha >Archives. 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New opac detail view for records
by Pedro Amorim 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hello all, I'm just about to start diving into the core and figure out how the three different opac detail views are implemented (normal, marc and ISBD) so I can implement my own custom detail view and add a fourth one. However, and before I start doing so, I was wondering if anyone has done/attempted this before or at least if someone has some knowledge on what template files should I start and how to go about it. Thanks as always, Pedro Amorim

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