Hi Guys,
thanks for all the feedback - the Changing Out a Deployment server document was particularly useful . . .
The upgrade is mainly a hardware upgrade, though after talking to our server ops team, I've found out that we are also upgrading OS to 2003. Unfortuntaly, the powers that be decided that our new servers should conform to the company's naming standards (the old ones are from many years ago before various mergers and take overs, so are completely different), so our DR plan & much of the advice on Oracle's site is not too helpful. My background is as a support specialist/developer on VB, C, Prolog & Web applications, but I recently moved into JDE as a developer (6 months ago), and was asked to take over the CNC role as the former CNC guy recently left & my background included working with servers & problem solving; however I've only had a couple of days CNC training (since 99% of what I do is the routine new user accounts, password resets, killing jobs & deleting citrix profiles).
I have a good overall idea of what needs to be done, but only a very rough idea of the finer details.
We are upgrading the following servers, all of which are changing their names (I've just numbered them here to keep things simple):
S1 :: Security/UBE Server
S2 :: UBE Server (nothing special)
S3 :: UBE Server (Running Create!Form)
S4 :: UBE Server (Containing dev & crp databases)
S5 :: Enterprise/UBE Server (containing test database)
S6 :: Deployment Server
The only JDE server which is not changing is our production database server, which is running UNIX/Oracle 9i. (Citrix servers are also remaining the same).
New Servers
S1 -> SEC (Security & UBE)
S2 -> UBE1 (UBE)
S3 -> UBE2 (UBE with Create!Form)
S4 + S5 -> ENT (Enterprise, NonProd DBs)
S6 -> DEP (Deployment Server)
S4 & S5 are combining so that all of our non-prod databases can be managed on the same machine.
I'd also like to make one of these servers a backup security server; I assume DEP would be best for this since it has the least to do?
Idealy I'd like a step by step document saying "go to menu G98XX, click Work With Servers, etc" if anyone's got anything that detailed? However, I doubt that such a document currently exists (I'll post one once I've learnt what to do though), so any information along those lines would be appreciated.
Thanks again for all your feedback.
Cheers,
JB