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Luminis 4.x Upgrade. Checo Fall 2008 Meeting Sept 22-24, 2008. Who is doing what?. Mike Johnson – University of Denver Upgraded from III.3.3.127 4.1.0.27 Mike Meens – Mesa State No upgrade, started at Luminis 4 Bill Waggoner – Aims Upgraded from III 4 Matt McGlamery – Fort Lewis
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Luminis 4.x Upgrade Checo Fall 2008 Meeting Sept 22-24, 2008
Who is doing what? • Mike Johnson – University of Denver • Upgraded from III.3.3.127 4.1.0.27 • Mike Meens – Mesa State • No upgrade, started at Luminis 4 • Bill Waggoner – Aims • Upgraded from III 4 • Matt McGlamery – Fort Lewis • Non Luminis. Went with uPortal
About D.U. • 20,000+ active people • 4,000 Undergrad students • 6,000 Graduate students • 10,000 Faculty and staff • 70,000+ courses in Luminis • 500,000+ people in Luminis • Hardware • Web/Portal/Calendar: 2x v890’s, (8)-1.3GhZ CPUs, 32Gb Memory (Clustered) • Oracle/uPortal Tier: 2x v440’s, (4)-1.2GhZ CPUs, 16Gb Memory (Clustered) • Mail (Ext. IMS) Tier: 2x v1280’s, (8)-900MhZ CPUs, 16Gb Memory (Clustered) • Hitachi NSC55 Fiber disk
Our upgrade concerns • Authentication for other Apps • Banner (7 & 8) • Integration (LMG/LMB) • Single Sign On (Channels) • Blackboard (7.1 & 7.3) • Integration Building Block (SCT Gateway http client) • Single Sign On (General and Coursemap) • Cost of Migration • SCT Recommends 850 hours of contracted services to prep and migrate. (!!!!) • Migration Tools and Timeframe • We’ve been through migration before – tools sucked • We were hearing weeks of outages for this migration
Problems we hit • Immutable ID (Fix documented) • We already used banner id’s. No need for immutable ID • Generate Mappings list • Configure LMG to use banner ID’s • Migrator Memory Problems (FIXED) • Lots of memory problems and oracle problems that were finally addressed in migration jar file 2.8 • Targeted Announcements (Holy Cow) • Uid=* caused mail not to work (FIXED) • Creating announcements failed to render at all • Can create but then can’t see • Can’t use imported groups unless role admin • Missed the boat with the boolean logic • Created new roles to replace imported groups and screwed up boolean logic
More problems • Calendar & Messenger Express • Messenger Express gone – we cheated • Calendar Skin is sun’s skin unless you install com express • Calendar Functionality degraded • Address books now in calendar (due to com express) • Icon Caching (FIXED) • Fixed in Platform III.3.3, removed for Platform IV, fixed (we complained) in IV.1.0.21, and finally fixed IV.1.0.27 • Blackboard Single Sign On (FIXED) • We pay for support contract for them to keep it maintained, then help them design the working product to sell to you guys…they have no dev environment • Getting Roles from LDAP (Custom uPortal code) • cpicons functionality changed (documented)
Timeframes • Originally planned upgrade 6/12/08 • Started testing late Jan/early Feb • Seemed like plenty of time…it wasn’t • Still not a successful migration as of 6/11/08 • Poor communication with Sungard Support, migration just taking too long to fix problem and repeat to hit next problem • Migration postponed till mid August 2008 • Scheduled outage window was from 12:01am Friday morning – 6am Monday morning. 80 hours was all we were able to squeeze out of the academic calendar.
How’d we do? • Great Success!! • Testing took 80+ hours (little V210’s) • Production took a little over 48 hours + customizations
Suggestions • TEST! EARLY! OFTEN! • Tune oracle (both instances) • Roll over logs • Archive mode • Engineer on call for OH $@#! moments if you don’t contract • Rummage support site (known issues doc) • Take your problems to support and Lumdev.net for faster resolution
My contact info Mike Johnson (303) 871-3722 mike@du.edu