Subject: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Running on the new server

From: Russ Housley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 02:26:00 -0500

Just so everyone knows, we are now running on the new server.

As with any transition, there were some bumps and pot holes, but the AMS IT team did a good job steering around them.  Extracting from a report to me:

> Overall, the cutover itself went well.  Downtime for the Datatracker
> and core services was only about 7 minutes, owing primarily to the
> direct-connect cable between the old server and the new one.  :-)  We
> had done a lot of prep work in advance, so we only had to run a single
> RSYNC cycle on the directories to get the data over and secure.
> 
> We had email halted for about 35 minutes, to allow for a full flush
> and transition of mailman, and the archive tool.  Both the web
> services - Apache and the Datatracker, and the email services -
> Mailman and Postfix - responded well to the cutover and upgrade, and
> came right online when directed.

Since I have not seen any complaints on the IETF Discuss mail list, it was smooth from the user perspective as well.

Thanks to all who had a hand in this project.

Russ