On Oct 4, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Chuck Miller wrote: > We are ready to implement our new mirror code and are writing documentation > on this process. The one thing I have not figured out is how to turn the > mirror into production. > > The server itself is pretty easy as I have a record that has IP address of > production machine in a record. > > What I do not understand is how to update the clients. Production and Mirror > are on different subnets so the built client on the machine will not be able > to connect to without a change to 4Dlink file. > > What I was hoping was to use a DNS name and simply change the IP address it > points to so if I had > > Server_prod which pointed at 192.168.5.5 > Server_Mirros which pointed at 192.162.5.17 > > The IP’s are of course not the real ones in use > > I could simply change DNS name and voila each client would connect > seamlessly. This code is for a large hospital and changing DNS names like > this does not seem to be in the cards. > > Can anyone tell me how they are doing this
DNS name change is definitely the way to go, but if you can’t do that, then you could do something like this. First, all of your 4D Client users need to have a network file server share that they all have mounted. On that share create a folder and put in that folder a .4Dlink file that everyone will use to connect to 4D Server. Next make a shortcut to this 4Dlink file and send this to all your users. Tell them this is the file they should double-click to connect to 4D Server. No user will have the real 4Dlink file on their hard drive. They only get to have a shortcut to the 4Dlink on the network share. When you want to switch from production to mirror server you just change the IP address inside 4Dlink file on the file server share. Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
