Hibernating and De-hibernating Sandbox Environments hibernating-introduction
Sandbox Program environments enter a hibernation mode if no activity is detected for a certain period of time.
Hibernation hibernation-introduction
Hibernation can occur either automatically or manually. It may take up to a few minutes for Sandbox Program environments to enter a hibernation mode. Data is preserved during hibernation.
Hibernation is categorized as:
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Automatic Sandbox Program environments are automatically hibernated after eight hours of inactivity, meaning that neither the author nor publish services receive requests.
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Manual: As a user you may manually hibernate a Sandbox Program environment, although there is no requirement to do so since hibernation will occur automatically after a certain period (eight hours) of inactivity.
#release-cm-p1234-e5678 where 1234 1234 is your Program ID and 5678 is your Environment ID.Using Manual Hibernation using-manual-hibernation
You can manually hibernate your Sandbox Program from the Developer Console in two different ways, using:
- Environment detail screen
- Environment listing screen
Follow the steps below to manually hibernate your Sandbox Program environments:
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Navigate to the Developer Console.
Refer to Accessing Developer Console to learn how to access the Developer Console from the Environments card.note important IMPORTANT Linking to the Developer Console directly from Cloud Manager will not give you the option to hibernate a Sandbox Program environment. The workaround is once at the Developer Console, add the following pattern to the end of the url #release-cm-p1234-e5678 where 12341234 is your Program ID and 5678 is your Environment ID. -
Click Hibernate, as shown in the figure below:
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Click the Environments link in top left to view the environments listing and then click Hibernate, as shown in the figure below:
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Click Hibernate to confirm the step.
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When the hibernation is successful, you will see the hibernation process complete notification for your environment in the Developer Console screen.
De-hibernation de-hibernation-introduction
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Navigate to the Developer Console.
Refer to Accessing Developer Console to learn how to access the Developer Console from the Environments card.note important IMPORTANT Linking to the Developer Console directly from Cloud Manager will not give you the option to de-hibernate a Sandbox Program environment. The workaround is once at the Developer Console, add the following pattern to the end of the url #release-cm-p1234-e5678 where 12341234 is your Program ID and 5678 is your Environment ID.note note NOTE Alternatively, you can navigate to the Developer Console to de-hibernate by trying to access the author or publish service of an already hibernated environment; in that case, a landing page will appear with a link to the Developer Console. See the Accessing a Hibernated Environment section below. note important IMPORTANT Access to the Developer Console is defined by the Cloud Manager - Developer Role in the Admin Console. A user with a developer role permission can de-hibernate a Sandbox Program environment. -
Click on De-hibernate, as shown in the figure below:
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Click the Environments link in top left to view the environments listing and then click De-hibernate, as shown in the figure below
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Click De Hibernate to confirm the step.
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You will receive the notification that the de-hibernation process has started and you will be updated with the progress.
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Once the process completes, the Sandbox Program environment is active again.
Permissions to De-hibernate permissions-de-hibernate
Any user with a product profile giving them access to AEM as a Cloud Service should be able to access the Developer Console, allowing them to de-hibernate the environment.
Accessing a Hibernated Environment accessing-hibernated-environment
When making any browser requests against either the author or publish tier of a hibernated environment, the user will encounter a landing page describing the hibernated status of the environment, as shown in the figure below:
Important Considerations important-considerations
Few key considerations related to hibernated and de-hibernated environments are:
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A user may use a pipeline to deploy custom code to hibernated environments. The environment will remain hibernated and the new code will appear in the environment once de-hibernated.
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AEM upgrades can be applied to hibernated environments, which customers can manually trigger from Cloud Manager. The environment will remain hibernated and the new release will appear in the environment once de-hibernated.
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Sandboxes are put into hibernation node after 8 hours of inactivity, after which time, they can be de-hibernated.
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Sandboxes are deleted after 6 months of being in continuous hibernation mode, after which time, they can be recreated.
note note NOTE Currently, Cloud Manager does not indicate whether an environment is hibernated.
AEM Updates to Sandbox Environments aem-updates-sandbox
Refer to AEM version updates for more details.
A user can manually apply AEM updates to the environments in a Sandbox Program.
Refer to Updating Environment to learn how to update an environment.
- A manual update can only be run when the targeted environment has a properly configured pipeline.
- A manual update to either Production or Stage environment will automatically update the other. The Production+Stage environment set must be on the same AEM release.