[hobbit] Moving from BB to Hobbit

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Jul 9 07:18:32 CEST 2007


On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:46:14PM -0500, Jeffrey Parker wrote:
>      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?

Check the beginning of your hobbitserver.cfg file, there is a reference
to the hostname and IP that you entered during configuration there.


Regards,
Henrik




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