Hi, after many months of planning, and getting input from various mirror administrators.. I am ready to make the changes. Thanks for all the help from everyone. If this is cancelled for some reason we will send out another email O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M ===================================== Scheduled Date: 2001/03/28 (yyyy/mm/dd) Scheduled Time: _19:00____ Time Zone: _EST___ Estimated Time Required: _2 hours__ Performed By: _Web IS staff (SJ Smoogen et al)____ People/Groups to Notify: _RHN, support, docs, OS/engineering, redhat-list______________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Machines(s) Affected: _wallace.redhat.com, rwc.redhat.com, nyc.redhat.com___________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Site(s) Affected: _Entire company layout of FTP structure will change___________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Description: _In order to clean up the Red Hat FTP tree structure for better auto__ _searching, for better mirroring, and to help grow the FTP structurally _in the future, the current layout will be changed.___________________ _A script has been written to change the FTP site structure and passed _to the mirror-lists for their ability to use. Webgroup has made chan- _ges to the website documents to allow for new links to be found._____ _On March 28, at 1900 EST ftp.redhat.com will stop all transactions,__ __the script will then be run on the NYC redhat ftp servers. ____ __if no problems occur the script will then be run on the RWC servers_ __and finally on wallace.redhat.com___________________________________ _The webgroup will then push the new content to the website and FTP___ __service will resume.________________________________________________ _RHN will reset their servers to use the new index's from the new_____ __layout______________________________________________________________ Verification Test Plan: _An auto script will check 30-40 links on different support pages to__ _make sure they can get the data from the ftp servers.________________ Backout Plan: _If there are problems with the script, then the FTP servers in that__ _location will stay off line and the tree will be pushed fresh from __ _wallace.redhat.com.__________________________________________________ _DNS will be changed during that time and original FTP servers will___ _come back on-line. We will then move the FTP site in May after review _of all problems have been completed._________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ End User Signoff: ________________________________________ IS Signoff: ________________________________________ Report By: _Stephen J Smoogen____________________________________________________ Revision: 1.2sjs -- Stephen J Smoogen Web IS Admin Red Hat Inc _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list