Obviously you dont have your hands on the correct threads !
/s
"David F. Wall" wrote:
>
> Since I'm the one with his hands on most of the threads, I'll be
> coordinating. This message is soliciting:
>
> 1) Information on when the RAF machine in Redmond can be ready, and
> information on connecting to it. (RAF)
>
> 2) Information on whether or not AppServer1 in Richmond can communicate with
> an RAF machine in Redmond (Don, Roberta?)
>
> 3) Information on whether or not an NT-based Pay.gov instance in Foliage
> would be suitable for conducting this test (John, Mark, Kevin, Sushama)
>
> 4) Information on how long it would take to get the NT machine outside the
> Foliage firewall up and running with the 2.3 release candidate (Nathan,
> Murray, Don)
>
> Background:
>
> We need to test a release candidate for Pay.gov 2.3 with a version of the
> RAF Verification Engine hosted in Redmond. This is prompted by a call I
> received at about 4:30 yesterday from RAF, and stems from a desire to find a
> way to get this testing done before the new RAF deployment in Richmond is
> complete.
>
> Setting a Pay.gov instance up to use a Verification Engine hosted at a
> different port and server is merely a question of changing the values of two
> parameters and rebooting the Pay.gov instance. The more difficult question
> to answer is whether or not a Pay.gov instance will actually be able to open
> a socket to the configured host and port and conduct communications.
>
> There are three possible configurations for conducting this test:
>
> 1) Reconfigure AppServer 1 in Richmond FT to point at the host and port for
> the machine in Redmond and conduct the test there.
>
> This is the ideal situation, but I am not sure the network configuration at
> Richmond will allow AppServer1 to communicate with the machine in Redmond.
> Answering that question requires knowledge I don't have.
>
> 2) Reconfigure a Solaris host at Foliage to point at the host and port for
> the machine in Redmond and conduct the test there.
>
> I mention this for the sake of completeness, but it really isn't feasible,
> since it is not possible to move either of Foliage's Solaris hosts outside
> the Foliage firewall to allow bi-directional communication with the RAF
> machine in Redmond.
>
> 3) Reconfigure an NT-based host at Foliage to point at the host and port for
> the machine in Redmond.
>
> We already have a machine outside the Foliage firewall for such purposes,
> although it would require software upgrades and an installation of the
> Pay.gov 2.3 release candidate before becoming a suitable platform for
> conducting this test, assuming that an NT-based host can be considered
> suitable from a Quality Engineering standpoint.
>
> If we can get at the machine in Redmond from AppServer1 in Richmond FT, then
> as soon as RAF says the machine in Redmond is ready, we can get the host and
> port from RAF, schedule time on AppServer1 to take the instance down, change
> the parameters, conduct the tests, and then restore the instance's previous
> state.
>
> If that isn't possible, then we need to set things in motion to get a NT
> machine at Foliage set up to serve as the Pay.gov instance.
>
> Dave Wall
> Foliage Software Systems