Issues

• Often in DEV or QA environments, customer found that Iguana was taking a long time to commit

• It also takes a longer time to start up

  • [INFO ] Optimizing Git repositories. This may take a few minutes...

• In some special cases, the commits will fail or timeout

Cause

• Overtime the IguanaMainRepo has too many commit histories which may affect Iguana to update the repo

Solutions

• Cleanup IguanaMainRepo but preserve existing channels and configurations

Steps to Cleanup IguanaMainRepo

1. Create a local temporary repository (e.g “TempRepo”)

2. Export all your channels with sample data to TempRepo

3. Make a backup of “IguanaMainRepo” folder

4. Make a backup of “IguanaConfiguration.xml” file found in IguanaConfigurationRepo folder

5. Stop the Iguana Service

6. Delete the following folders:

   1. Edit, Run, data, IguanaMainRepo, IguanaConfigurationRepo

7. Start the Iguana Service

8. Once started, if Log encryption is enabled, choose reuse existing key option

9. Login to Iguana Dashboard

10. Add local repository (e.g “TempRep”) and import all channels back

11. Stop the Iguana Service

12. Overwrite IguanaConfiguration.xml

13. Start the Iguana Service

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