[Calendar] WebEvent calendar switched and back on-line

[Jeff Mangum]

Hi Folks,

The WebEvent calendar has been switched from the Tucson server to a 
server in CV as of 08:00 EDT on 2005/05/11.  A rudimentary check of the 
calendar information on the old and new installations showed exact 
agreement.  *Please* check that you can:

   1. Log in to the calendar server.
   2. See the correct information for any meetings that you may have
      recently scheduled.

The Tucson installation of WebEvent has been disabled, so it should not 
be possible to connect to the old installation.  If you get an error 
when connecting to http://calendar.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/publish/webevent.cgi 
it is likely to be due to the fact that the new server redirects have 
not propagated to the site-specific NIS servers.  We are coordinating 
with the sysadmins at each site to make sure that this propagation happens.

Please let me know if you find any problems.

Cheers,

Jeff


Jeff Mangum wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On 2005/05/11 (next Wednesday) starting at 4:00 EDT Pat and I will 
> start the port of the WebEvent calendar server from Tucson to CV.  
> Since this involves copying the database and, therefore, temporarily 
> making it impossible to schedule calendar events, we have chosen this 
> date and time to be the least disruptive to you all.  During the 
> switchover period:
>
>   1. The calendar server in Tucson will continue to serve requests for
>      calendar information.
>   2. It will not be possible to schedule calendar events which will
>      transition to the CV installation.
>   3. Because of (1) and (2), we will install an "interceptor" page
>      which, whenever anyone goes to calendar.nrao.edu, will tell people
>      that the calendar is being upgraded and that no requests using the
>      "Add Event" button in WebEvent should be made at this time.
>   4. The event request button's on Alan's calendar pages will still
>      work, since they only send email to the calendar administrators.
>
> We fully expect to have this switch made by the time NRAO Socorro 
> opens on Wednesday morning.
>
> Please let me know if this plan interferes with your calendar 
> administration duties.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
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