Re: New System

I fail how to understand how changing IP addresses leaves DNS out. But I
will try to guess; you have a network consultant who maintains your DNS
and he only works on your site on the second Thursday of the month. You
want to bring this system up on the first Saturday and can't afford the
wait. If this is the case ask him how to do it yourself or get him in on
your demand (or replace him).

We change our DNS entry for our system once a quarter for a weekend and
then change it back. Part of our Mimix switch process from one machine to
another.


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From: Angus MacQueen <amacqueen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 12/06/2012 08:34 AM
Subject: Re: New System
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Thank you both, unfortunately we are also changing IP addresses so DNS is
out. Sean I had a feeling it would be a problem. I guess we might have to
see about deploying a new connection with group policy - if that is
possible?


On 6 December 2012 13:18, Porterfield, Sean <
SPorterfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I replace a system, I change the old server IP address and assign

it

to the new server. The end users don't know or care.

No, I don't think there is any feasible way to deploy a change like that
to the clients. You have no way of knowing what .ws file they are even
using for the connection. Even if you did, you'd have to have a custom
program able to parse and edit or replace that file to change the IP
address (or host name) in that file. Also, any connection settings from
System i Navigator would be separate from the .ws file settings. There
are also some settings stored in .CAE files depending on the

configuration.

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Sean Porterfield


-----Original Message-----

From: Angus MacQueen

Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 03:51
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: New System

We currently have around 800 users and we are planning to deploy a new
server before too much longer and I am concerned that some of those

users

will have an IP address configured for their 5250 session and that will
fail when we deploy the server.

Has anyone been through the same issue and managed to deploy a change
through active directory group policy or similar.

I have tried to 'google' for an answer but no joy.

TIA
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