<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We have a development server that has the hostname oucapa2 and domain ohiou,<div>the same as our main library server.</div><div><br></div><div>Since it is in the development cluster, none of the machines in the production cluster</div><div>know of it's existence. It does not interfere or confuse the production cluster.</div><div><br></div><div>It has a different IP address than the regular library server and different hosts.tab and domain.tab.</div><div><br></div><div>The only real risk is that a student somehow gets logged into the wrong machine by </div><div>somehow getting the IP address of the development server (not a high risk in my mind).</div><div><br></div><div>At the last meeting we were actually talking about setting up a small cluster in between</div><div>development and production, which cloned the full library servers at several of the institutions.</div><div>This would provide a close-to-production environment for LC 3.0 testing.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps!</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>[06.07.2011 16:02 CEST]<br><br>Hi,<br><br>To avoid chaos, I want to make sure that my idea works.<br><br>I'd like to clone one of our production servers for testing purposes. I <br>do not need connection to the LON-CAPA cluster but I want to have all <br>local users, problems and courses as well as the related data.<br><br>Is it really okay to "copy" the whole server, configure it as <br>"standalone" and connect it to the internet? Copy means to process most <br>of the steps as described on <a href="http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html">http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html</a> <br>which is basically copying the home folder.<br><br>Even not connecting it to the internet could mean to have two very <br>similar servers in the same local network, e.g. domain and host id would <br>be the same.<br><br>Thanks in advance for sharing any doubts,<br>Stefan Bisitz<br>_______________________________________________<br>LON-CAPA-admin mailing list<br><a href="mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a><br>http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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