CCS News
JANUARY 4, 2008
Happy New Year to all! Here’s hoping it’s a great one for all of us and CCS...
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
New Router from ICN – by the time you read this a new router card should be installed on our ICN router providing additional bandwidth. This was done the morning of Friday January 3.
Tuesday Jan 8, is planned date for Patch cluster 5D – we are still planning to install patch cluster 5D to the production machine during the early hours of Tuesday January 8. We will start in the wee early hours of the morning so that the work is completed by 8 am. We will send out the customary messages. Please see Ken’s column for more details.
DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that the Computer Room is tentatively scheduled to install Patch Cluster 5A-D on the production server on Tuesday, January 8, 2008? The update will be done early in the morning of the 8th and WorkFlows will be up and running by 8:00AM that day. We will send out a general announcement that the update has been successfully installed so you can look for the changes associated with it.
Issues to be aware of with this upgrade:
- - When you login to production WorkFlows (using the Java client) after the patch upgrade, a message will display asking if you want to update the Java client. You DO want to upgrade the client, but in order to do it you must have started that PC with a login/password that has Windows Administrative privileges (as opposed to WorkFlows ADMIN privileges). If you have Windows Administrative privileges, and are using the Java client for day-to-day operations, you should say “Yes” to the upgrade question and follow the usual steps to complete this process. (If you are not familiar with this procedure, see document: “Java Client Update Guide - GL3_1 Jan 2008” on the CCS web page for step-by-step instructions).
- - We recommend that each library stagger their client upgrades on the morning of the 8th to minimize the impact on the network for everyone else. No more than 2-4 machines should be updated at the same time.
- - If you DO NOT have Windows Administrative privileges on your workstation, say “No” to the upgrade request and ask your library’s Maintenance Coordinator to login to your machine and run the update for you.
- - Note: If you open WorkFlows with the C client after the patch installation, you will not need to update the client.
- - If you volunteered to help test the Patch Cluster and have not yet sent me your results, please wrap-up any last minute tests you may have and let me know if you found any problems. So far, the input from the testers has been positive.
- - If you’ve been testing Patch Cluster 5A-D on the test server, you’ve been told to answer “No” to the Update Client message whenever you switched back to the production server to do your daily work. Once the patch is installed on production you can (finally) say “Yes” to the update question. From that point forward, both the test server and the production server will be in sync and you will not have to go through the client update again. (Until the next new release from Sirsi.) – Ken Victorson
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 1/9, 10:00, CCS: Executive Comm.
(Please note: The Circulation meeting will be the 18th, a week later than usual!)
