[THIN] Re: Dance of the servers ... Need some guidance
- From: "Landin, Mark" <Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:18:08 -0600
Joe,
Your "somewhat" shorter procedure worked flawlessly. However, I did have
to remove the machine account for BOB from the domain before it allowed
me to rename SAM to BOB. I merely mention that for historical reasons
and someone comes across this procedure in the future.
Thanks again!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:04 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Dance of the servers ... Need some guidance
>
> The least disruptive is to simply turn off BOB. Stop the IMA
> service on SAM, rename server to BOB and reboot and remove
> any published apps for SAM.
> Remove the server SAM by right-clicking and remove server.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Landin, Mark
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:23 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Dance of the servers ... Need some guidance
>
> OK I have a farm (ee-eye ee-eye oh). In this farm I have 4
> servers running Windows 2003 and MPS 3.0, and the directly
> connect to an MS SQL Server datastore. One of the servers is
> called BOB, which is a server I need to remove from the farm
> because he goes back to his leasing company later this month.
> I have another server called SAM who is in the farm, who is
> BOB's replacement. When I pull BOB, I want to rename SAM to
> BOB and have him still be part of the farm.
>
> What's the least disruptive way to do this?
>
> My proposed plan is this:
>
> 1. Remove all published applications from BOB and SAM.
> 2. Remove the Metaframe software from BOB, thus removing him
> from the farm.
> 3. Remove BOB from the domain and turn him off.
> 4. Remove SAM from the farm. (How should I do this? I don't
> want to remove Metaframe. Using CHFARM?) 5. Remove SAM from
> the domain.
> 6. Rename SAM to BOB.
> 7. Add BOB to the domain.
> 8. Add BOB to the existing farm (using the CHFARM command, I presume?)
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