[hobbit] Moving from BB to Hobbit

Bruce Ferrell bferrell at baywinds.org
Sat Jul 14 01:55:41 CEST 2007



Jeffrey Parker wrote:
> Hi Hobbits,
> 
>      I have read the BB to Hobbit migration guide, and I have a
> question that I don't think was covered by the document directly.  I
> have both a BB and test Hobbit servers up and running.  I have a few
> of the monitored clients sending updates to both servers as a test.
> Now that I am convinced that Hobbit is ready to be put in production,
> I would like to switch the two, i.e., just switch the hostnames and
> IP's. and put the hobbit server in the BB server's place.  This would
> save us from having to change the BBDISPLAY host on all the monitored
> clients.  All of the Hobbit server software was compiled and built on
> the test system with the test name and IP.  Can I just change the IP
> and hostname on the test machine to the production server and bring
> the BB server down and be OK, or will I have to re-compile everything
> once I switch them?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jeff

Where is the BB/Hobbit migration guide to be found?  I just went through 
  the shire and the main hobbit page and didn't see it.

Thanks




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