WebOPAC, WAM and Blade Server

["Riesner, Giles" <GRIESNER at ccbcmd dot edu>]

We are preparing to migrate to a new server before we can install Release 2005.

Our new server will be on a blade in the blade server, which is fine.

Our Systems Engineer and Network Engineer tell us that:

       1) We will NOT have the same IP address on our new box as we do now.
           (We knew we couldn't during testing, but had hoped for it when we went live.)

       2) The address on the Library server will be an INTERNAL one (10.x.x.x), 
           but will be NAT'ed so that folks can get in from the outside 

While I'm a bit skeptical on the 2nd part, they say they have other servers
configured that way and you can get to them from the outside.

I'm wondering how this will affect our WAM (with proxy rewrite). Does anyone else
have experience with a similar setup and how has it worked for you? Was any
additional tweaking required to get the proxy working, and if so what?

I'm also curious, since we're going to have to test the WAM proxy on the new
box, before we cut over officially in production, whether the proxy rewrite would
accept a dotted decimal IP address (198.xxx.xxx.xxx) rather than the canonical form
(library.ccbcmd.edu) in the URL. 

I've only ever seen "library server name" in the documentation and obviously we can't 
use the same name as we're using in production or it would point to the current ("old") 
IP address; I know that it might be possible to configure the hosts file on the new box
to see the new number, but we want a clean conclusive test.

Any help on this matter would be appreciated. Thanks.

Giles W. Riesner Jr., Library Tech Support
Community College of Balto. Co. - Catonsville
800 S. Rolling Rd., Baltimore MD 21228  USA
Tel/V-Mail 1-410-455-4245
Email:       griesner at ccbcmd dot edu



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