Re: Server Alias Production and COOP

2017-05-17 Thread Brian Pancia
of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 10:42:58 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server Alias Production and COOP ** The way we handle it here is to never use the real server names, always use an alias for both the web server and the AR Server. In the AR System you can add t

Re: Server Alias Production and COOP

2017-05-17 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Server Alias Production and COOP ** We have a number of integrations with our remedy environment using web services. We want to seamlessly switch between Production and COOP without impacting the integrations, since the

Re: Server Alias Production and COOP

2017-05-17 Thread LJ LongWing
Brian, In the past I have used DNS, but that's problematic because dns has local caches (on machines) and such, the much more elegant solution is load balancers, this is typically done between two or more machines within the server group of course, but if you have an alternate lb (load balanced loa

Server Alias Production and COOP

2017-05-17 Thread Brian Pancia
We have a number of integrations with our remedy environment using web services. We want to seamlessly switch between Production and COOP without impacting the integrations, since the remedy application server name is in the mid-tier url. I'm assuming we can setup a DNS server alias and then j