Multi server host

Is it possible to have OD base server on a different box than teamsite and still deploy the teamsite files?

Box A Teamsite (no OD software)
--------firewall-------------
Box B OpenDeploy base berver
Box C Web server

I want to use box B to move teamsite files to from A to C.

Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

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13adam13

OpenDeploy does not have the ability to move files to or from a machine that does not have the software installed on it.

However, if you were able to map a drive on Box B to the Teamsite file locations on Box A, then you would be able to deploy the files on Box A.

This answer should fool the OD Base Server into thinking that the files that you are trying to deploy reside locally.

tvaughan

Yeah, but if you're on Solaris, you can't mount an NFS mount on Box B to the /iwmnt filesystem (cuz you can't NFS an existing NFS).

You could do this:

1) Have a reverse deploy setup on Box B grab the files off Box A (this is assuming the Box A has an OD Receiver on it)
2) After successfully reverse deploying those files from A to B, do a DNR script to deploy from Box B to C.

You could trigger this two-in-one deployment via the OD Admin GUI hosted on Box B. . . it'd look just like 1 deployment to the end user.

Pretty convoluted, why so complex?

Tom

MattP

We have issues with our TS box (5.52 win2k OD 5.5) which is hosted outside out internal network, deploying to multiple boxes inside our network. It isn't impossible, just inflexible (Requires a Network Address Translation to be set up for each box). What I think we should so is put an additional base server inside our network. Deploy from the hosted box ONLY to the base server in the network, then redeploy to any receiver box. The issue with this, is we would need additional licenses. So the scenario would be

Box A TS and OD Base
-------Firewall--------
Box B OD base
Boxes C,D,E etc receivers.

Then do a deployment from A to B, redeploy to any box in the network. The re-deploy is pretty std functionality.

Thanks for your input!
Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

13adam13

You can just set up Box A as a reciever as well. Then do everything from Box B, which has the only base on it.

I don't know if that helps with any licensing issues, or not.

13adam13

I don't understand your first comment here. I sit on a Solaris work station that has mapped to the NFS 'iwmnt' on the TeamSite box. If I installed the OD base my work station, it could act as Box B in the example that I gave.