[Koha] Creating a Z39.50 Target - No connection

[Vee San Cheong]

Hi Craig,

Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. When I do telnet, it
doesn't give me a 'connection refused'. It simply doesn't respond after
connecting. I have rebooted my server and restarted zebra as instructed.
URL:port/biblios also doesn't give me anything even after I have rebuilt
zebra. What do you think is wrong?

I'm hoping to use MarcEdit's ILS integration module as I have lots of files
to tweak later.



On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Craig Butosi <craig.butosi at rcmusic.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Viv,
>
> In my experience, whenever you cannot telnet to the port that you set in
> koha-conf.xml, it doesn't necessarily mean that the port is closed (say by
> a firewall or some such setting), but rather that no service is running on
> it yet. In other words, your system does not recognize the Z39.50 as
> "activated". On the two separate occasions where I activated the Z39.50
> settings in /etc/koha/sites/<instance>/koha-conf.xml (not koha-conf.xml.in),
> I had to completely reboot my server. I know the instructions say to
> restart Zebra by running sudo koha-restart-zebra <instance>, but the reboot
> was what did it for me. Be sure to save your koha-conf settings as root
> though! <-- I didn’t do this the first time.
>
> So, what I did was this:
>
> 1. As root user, navigate to /etc/koha/sites/<instance>/koha-conf.xml
> [Open with nano (or some other editor)]
> 2. Uncomment the necessary sections of koha-conf.xml
> 3. Set the <listen id> tag content to the port of your choice (I chose
> 9999, thus " <listen id="publicserver">tcp:@:9999</listen>"
> 4. Save your file and exit (Ctrl+O, then Ctrl+X)
> 5. Restart Zebra: koha-restart-zebra <instance>
> 6. Check if you can telnet to the port you set: telnet localhost <port #>
>  (without '<>' of course)
> 7. If it gives you a "connection refused" error, check koha-conf.xml again.
> 8. If all is well, then restart Zebra again.
> 9. If connection refused after telnetting to port for the second time,
> reboot server.
> 10. In my case, this is what did it. Everything was up and running. I
> tested the connection using MarcEdit's ILS integration module.
>
> It's also handy to take a look at your Zebra logs, which should be here:
> /var/log/koha/library    ;  it is here that you will find clues as to what
> might be preventing you from connecting.
>
> You know Z39.50 is working when you visit, <url:port/biblios> in my case,
> library.craigbutosi.ca:9999/biblios  <--you should see an xml file.
>
> The above is what worked for me. I've learned everything on the advice of
> Robin and others on this list (thank you all by the way! Love this list!).
> I've also been told to steer clear of changing iptables. There shouldn't be
> (generally speaking) any reason to have to modify them for the task here.
>
> I hope this little bit helps!
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Best to all,
>
> Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
> LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
> THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY
> TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
> 273 Bloor Street West
> Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
> 416.408.2824 x338
> www.rcmusic.ca
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of
> cartoonmagic
> Sent: May-01-15 6:30 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Creating a Z39.50 Target - No connection
>
> Hi Craig and Robin,
>
> I'm very new to Koha and I'm implementing a library on Ubuntu 14.04 and I
> faced the same problem as you did. Would you be able to help me - how did
> you actually get them to work please?
>
> I can't telnet to the port I've set. I tried changing the iptables, and I
> have also tried different ports on the koha-conf.xml, but with no success.
> Does it make a difference if I set it on the UDP or TCP port? As I
> couldn't add it using iptable rules, I've added it in apache2's port. Am I
> doing something wrong here?
>
> Cheers,
> Viv
>
>
>
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