Ah...ok I got ya...yeah I don't like creating extra files just to have extra
files unless there is a purpose...creating another file inside the war
doesn't make sense to me but reading the value in from something outside the
app does.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Scott Battaglia
<scott.battag...@gmail.com>wrote:

> If you're using Maven2 WAR Overlay and you want to modify the value, you
> would need to place a copy of the file in your overlay and edit that (which
> is what I meant by new version).
>
> Alternatives include changing the id generators to read that value from
> somewhere else (as someone pointed out).  At Rutgers we had placed an
> external file on the file system (or JNDI) and had the WAR read it that way.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Curtis Garman <curt.gar...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Scott, shouldn't this file be part of my maven overlay anyway since it is
>> here that I would need to configure the services stuff?
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Scott Battaglia <
>> scott.battag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Curtis Garman <curt.gar...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marvin, do you mean the host.name in the cas.properties file? It looked
>>>> like the documentation wanted you to create a whole new properties file and
>>>> such (even for cas 3.3.5). Isn't it as easy as editing the default value of
>>>> the host.name property already defined?
>>>
>>>
>>> You can't edit it unless you're not using the Maven2 WAR Overlay method,
>>> which we of course recommend you use :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, am I correct in assuming that that value really could be any
>>>> unique string and that it doesn't actually have to be a server name?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It can be anything.  It just needs to be unique across servers.  It could
>>> be the name of the members of the Dave Matthews Band if you wanted ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Curtis
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Marvin Addison <
>>>> marvin.addi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> > Has anyone used CAS in multiple server environments?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think lots of folks are doing HA CAS.  We are.
>>>>>
>>>>> > What keeps the tokens unique?
>>>>>
>>>>> The server.name parameter in the cas.properties file.  That string is
>>>>> appended to the end of the service ticket by default to further
>>>>> guarantee globally unique ticket strings.
>>>>>
>>>>> > is there any good articles on mutiple CA servers using the same token
>>>>> (high availability).
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Clustering+CAS is a good
>>>>> starting point.  I think searching the cas-user and cas-dev list
>>>>> archives for "HA" and "Cluster" would provide further details after
>>>>> you have a general understanding of the concerns involved in a HA CAS
>>>>> setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> M
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