[LON-CAPA-admin] Cloning production server for testing purposes

[Stefan Bisitz]

Thanks, Mark. This is helpful.

To assure that no others than the tester personnel can login, I think I 
will adjust localenroll.pm.

By the way: Funny to find your answer in my inbox before the actual 
question... :-)

Stefan


On 06.07.2011 16:28 CEST, Lucas, Mark wrote:
> We have a development server that has the hostname oucapa2 and domain ohiou,
> the same as our main library server.
>
> Since it is in the development cluster, none of the machines in the
> production cluster
> know of it's existence. It does not interfere or confuse the production
> cluster.
>
> It has a different IP address than the regular library server and
> different hosts.tab and domain.tab.
>
> The only real risk is that a student somehow gets logged into the wrong
> machine by
> somehow getting the IP address of the development server (not a high
> risk in my mind).
>
> At the last meeting we were actually talking about setting up a small
> cluster in between
> development and production, which cloned the full library servers at
> several of the institutions.
> This would provide a close-to-production environment for LC 3.0 testing.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Mark
>
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:
>
>> [06.07.2011 16:02 CEST]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> To avoid chaos, I want to make sure that my idea works.
>>
>> I'd like to clone one of our production servers for testing purposes. I
>> do not need connection to the LON-CAPA cluster but I want to have all
>> local users, problems and courses as well as the related data.
>>
>> Is it really okay to "copy" the whole server, configure it as
>> "standalone" and connect it to the internet? Copy means to process most
>> of the steps as described on http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html
>> which is basically copying the home folder.
>>
>> Even not connecting it to the internet could mean to have two very
>> similar servers in the same local network, e.g. domain and host id would
>> be the same.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for sharing any doubts,
>> Stefan Bisitz
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