[hobbit] Moving to new Hobbit server

[Andy France]

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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