Move Administration Console

[edmaa]

gwelter wrote:

>
> Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that one. But after reading that
> and the other links in the troubleshooting documentation, I'm still
> not sure how to procede. The documentation assumes that the primary
> console never was installed on the same server as the IDP and assumes
> the primary admin console server has failed (beyond repair). So steps
> involving 'install server with same dns/ip' don't apply here. But I
> still think my sequence of steps were partly right. I just didn't
> think of the Certificate Authority. So to recap, the steps in my
> situation seem to be the following:
>
> - install new server
> - install secondary console
> - assign CA to new server
> - make new server master replica
> - edit config on LAG to point to the new primary console
> - edit config on IDP to point to the new primary console
> - uninstall admin console from the old primary server
>
> Only the documentation says to disconnect the old server from the
> network prior to uninstalling. That would mean manually cleaning up
> the NAM-tree. I think it's still too tricky to do in a working setup.

Even if you blow away all the software on the existing Admin/IDP server
its ok as the whole IDP info is stored within eDirectory. So you can
always reinstall it and then assign the unconfigured server to the IDP
cluster you have.

The steps above look ok.


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Cheers,
Edward