[ipac] rebuild HIP 3.x on Linux

[Lynn Reynish]

Hi Natasha,

Firstly, my sympathies to you on your pain. Secondly, we are on 3.08 
(Solaris) and our copy of rebuild.sh is in the 
/opt/dynix/appserver/jboss/server/default/data/rebuild/ folder. 
Rebuild.sh runs once a month on the first of the month and to the best 
of my knowledge it was created by SirsiDynix.

Good luck,

Lynn

Natasha Stephan wrote:
> Hi all,
> We are in the process of migrating HIP 3.08 from a Solaris 8 box to a 
> RH Linux box.
>
> <gripe>
> Actually, I should say we are recreating our HIP _from scratch_ on a 
> new Linux box.  Not "just for kicks" (even I am not that 
> masochistic).  No, we are recreating HIP from scratch because we 
> _have_ to!
> SirsiDynix came out last Thursday (Nov. 2) to do the migration of both 
> our servers (HIP and db) to brand-new Linux boxes.  These are servers 
> that we had SD spec out for us more than a year ago.  Servers whose 
> specs changed when the recommendations for Horizon 8 came out.  
> Servers that were supposed to be able to run HIP and Horizon.  Servers 
> that were purchased and staged in October of this year.
> The SD tech and I tried three times to FTP our ipacadmin.gdb to the 
> Linux box and start HIP.  When he finally called Provo for some help, 
> he was told that it is not possible to migrate ipacadmin.gdb from 
> Solaris to Linux.  Why no one knew this (or told us this) when our 
> salesperson and I planned our migration, I have no idea.  What is even 
> more amazing is that no one knew this (or told us this) when they sent 
> the tech out to do our on-site install!  Either no one had tried this 
> kind of migration before they promised to do ours (which demonstrates 
> a severe lack of planning) or no one bothered to share this 
> information with the people who were planning to do ours (which 
> demonstrates a severe lack of communication).
> </gripe>
>
> Anyway, I am now setting up cron jobs on the new Linux box.  I used to 
> run "rebuild.sh" against the admin database every weekend, while the 
> Horizon database was unavailable (in single-user mode for DBCC).  The 
> file lived in /opt/dynix/appserver/jboss/server/default/data on our 
> Solaris 8 box.  There is no such file in 
> /opt/dynix/appserver/jboss/server/default/data on our new Linux box.  
> I can't find it anywhere.
>
> Do those of you with Horizon 3.x ever run rebuild.sh?  If so, did 
> SirsiDynix create the file for you, or did you create it?  And if you 
> are running Linux on your HIP server, could you share the text of your 
> rebuild.sh?
> Thanks,
> Natasha
>
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Lynn Reynish
ILS Librarian
Regina Public Library
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