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Relocating Servers

David Willams — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:47:19 GMT

As I will be relocating two of my servers from one location to another and the IP address will change as well, could you tell me what all places I need to change the IP to be perment and things to take care of.

From my side I have I have taken a full backup to be on the safer side.

What are the other things to take care of so that I plug in the server to make it running like now.

Re: Relocating Servers

Torsten. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:07:13 GMT

Boot your server to single user mode and run "set_parms initial".

Re: Relocating Servers

Fayez — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:00:34 GMT

Hi

--->> could you tell me what all places I need to change the IP to be perment and things to take care of.

As Torsten tell you, this command will initially change lots of things, like the IP and hostname.

-->> What are the other things to take care of so that I plug in the server to make it running like now.

1) Like the site itself: the power, air conditioning etc...
2) if the storage will be changed, you have to consider lots of things in this case.

Re: Relocating Servers

Fabio Ettore — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:46:45 GMT

Hi,

the command is set_parms as mentioned.
I'd use

/sbin/set_parms ip_address
/sbin/set_parms addl_netwrk

So you can set everything you need about IP address, netmask, default gateway.

Best regards,
Fabio

Re: Relocating Servers

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:05:33 GMT

Shalom,

Of course
/sbin/set_parms ip_address
Will work.

As will a manual edit on /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

It is well documented. Just don't save a backup copy in the /etc/rc.config.d directory

SEP

Re: Relocating Servers

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:05:58 GMT

Re: Relocating Servers

OldSchool — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:56:11 GMT

David,

be aware that some commercial software is licensed to IP address, as in Data Protector.

I don't know what commercial apps you may be running, if any, but it is something to watch out for.

In addition to the full backup, I'd make an Ignite backup as well. That would reinstall the vg00 / OS related stuff back to existing congfiguration if anything untoward happens during the move.

Re: Relocating Servers

David Willams — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:03:06 GMT

Thanks everyone... I havee done that... and will be moving them today