[hobbit] Moving to new Hobbit server

[David Pullman]

I also had to do the export/import of rrd files when moving from RHEL4 
on an i686 to RHEL 4 on a x86_64 processor type.

--David

Andy France wrote:
> 
> ZanDAhaR wrote on 28/02/2006 06:56:12 p.m.:
> 
>  > Hey guys,
>  >
>  > Can't seem to find anything on this but then again I haven't gone
>  > through all the results that come up on the mailing list search either.
>  >
>  > We moved from BB server to a Hobbit server a while ago but it was on the
>  > same box so there was no issue there. We are shuffling some old hardware
>  > around and decided to give our hobbit server some more grunt and also
>  > add some other odd apps on it. We'll want to progrssively move the hosts
>  > over to the new server so the clients are cool, just update the ip in
>  > windows ones, and the ip and hostname in the nix ones
>  >
>  > As for the server I'm assuming I can just copy the data dir over for the
>  > host I'm moving. I cannot imagine there being anything server specific
>  > in any of the status messages or graphs ?
> 
> Watch out if you are changing OS/filesystem at all.  Existing RRD files 
> will need to be exported and imported rather copied if this is the case 
> (I had to do this for a small-ish migration from Solaris x86 to Solaris 
> Sparc).
> 
>  > So action plan would be, shut down client on XYZ, define it in bb-hosts
>  > file on NEWHOBBIT, has it out in the OLDHOBBIT bb-hosts file, copy
>  > appropriate data folders from OLDHOBBIT to NEWHOBBIT (update ownership
>  > if need be), update ip addy and hostname in XYZ client settings, start
>  > client XYZ, be happy :)
>  >
>  > Any flaws in this thinking or suggestions of easier way even though I
>  > cannot imagine one can you please let me know
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Allan
>  >
> 
> Andy.
> 
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