Groove Server Data Bridge help..

[infinitiguy]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum.. so if not.. please direct me
elsewhere.

I have a groove management server, relay server and data bridge server all
in place.. what I am trying to figure out how to do is how to get all my old
workspaces, and users who have registered with the public relay
servers(prior to any of the server infrastructure being in place). Is there
any way to import this stuff in or link it somehow? I can't seem to find a
way to force my account(outside of the relay server) to see my GDM
account... which I suppose makes sense because my outside acct knows nothing
about my groove server... but my inside account can see it very quickly..

I fear I have a messy migration ahead of me... but here's hoping I dont...

 

[Nigel Holleran]

Hi infinitguy.

You are taking on a big task here - are you just going from "public groove"
to a "private" groove system? (i.e. groove 2007 -> groove 2007 - not groove
3.1 -> groove 2007??)

First thing - have you published the URL's of your GMS server and your Relay
Server on the internet? (or can your users see the groove servers via a VPN?)

You need to add your users to the GMS server as "members" then use the
built in email template to send them instructions to apply the configuration
code to their accounts which will "bind them" to your management server
rather than the public one.

How many users are we talking here?

Remember you don't have to migrate the workspaces, because as a peer to peer
system, they are all out there with the end-users, so there is no migration
to happen.

Once you have all the users managed by your GMS, you could think about
backing up the workspaces to your GDB, if you need to do that.

Hope this helps!

Nigel Holleran
D2i Solutions Ltd, UK

 

[infinitiguy]

Nigel,
Yep, just going from Public Groove to Private Groove.. not 3.1 -> 2007.

We've all been using groove internally for a while using MS's public relay
servers. My boss wanted to explore the option of having a central server
always online to replicate data as well as backing it up.

What I ended up with now is even though I have all 3 servers built and
running, I only have my databridge online. I think for now I'm going to
keep using MS's public relays and I'm just going to add in the data bridge
via a groove contact file. This seemed to work and achieve the things I
need it to achieve for the time being

thanks for your post though, it does give me some insight for the future.

Cheers,
-Derek

 

[Nigel Holleran]

Hi again, Infinitguy,

It sounds like you were using a sledgehammer to crack a nut there ...

You can use the Groove Data Bridge ID to backup workspaces on a schedule, in
fact, unless you have web services developers in-house, that's all the data
bridge will do, out of the box.

Often what we do, is a cheap and cheerful alternative, just build a Groove
client in the office, on a computer that will be always on, and designate it
as the "Robot" ID.
Make sure it gets invited to all your key workspaces, and make sure you
invite it as manager. That way, you always ensure there is at least one
manager left if the other one's machine dies. For redundancy, you can spread
the Robot account over two computers ...

Hope that helps - it works for us!

Nigel Holleran
D2i Solutions Ltd (UK)

 

[infinitiguy]

Nigel,
Trust me, I thought of the groove client thing first It was my first
suggestion to my boss, but he insisted upon using groove server. I was all
for the groove client or two.. just a few small VM's running happily away,
but sometimes... we must listen from above..

Cheers,
-Derek