Ben Parris on

Hi Community, 

I have recently been approached with a requirement to migrate an existing ARIS 9 Connect Server installation to a new host.  I have looked through all the usual documentation available for the ARIS 9 product, but have not seen anything that might help with this requirement (lost on migrating data, but nothing on migrating a system). 

The system is using an MSSQL DB, hosted on a separate server that will not change, with the application installed on a Windows Server VM.  Only the application server needs to be migrated, but I have been told that the new server will have to have a different hostname and IP.  A straight migration of the full VM is also not possible, so they want to move only the application server.  

Essentially, I can make it happen, but only if I can change the hostname of the ARIS Connect server.  On basic tomcat installations, this is a relatively straightforward change, but I notice that the in ARIS 9 the hostname specified in the original installation appears in many configuration files in the installed directory structure (mainly aligned with the runnables).  

I was hoping that I'd be able to use the ACC to reconfigure the server components to operate with a new hostname, but can't see an obvious way to do this looking at the commands help notes.

Has anyone ever migrated (successfully or not!) and ARIS 9 server from one hostname to another?  Is the recommendation to migrate or install a fresh system and migrate the data? 

Any observations, considerations or thoughts gratefully received!

Thanks, 

Ben

 

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