Re: Server Farm Replication

Hi,

"System Center" is just an overaching brand that encompassing a number of
products.

SCCM 2007 does some things. But App Center 2000 is proibably your best bet
if you need to load balance COM+ etc

Otherwise, you could look at packaging all the changes into MSI packages,
and then deploy via SMS/SCCM, or Group Policy or similar tool...

Cheers
Ken

"Chris M" wrote in message
news:fk85tp$uhb$1@aioe.org...
> Hello all,
>
> I manage a load balanced IIS6 server farm running a classic ASP
> application with a COM business logic layer written in VB6.
>
> The number of servers in the load balanced group is growing rapidly. I
> need some way of automatically replicating changes to the application's
> ASP, IIS configuration, registry or COM objects across the whole group of
> servers easily.
>
> Does anyone know of any decent software that could do this? From the
> research I have done it seems that Application Center 2000 might have
> provided this facility, but it has been superseded by System Center and
> I'm not 100% sure that it'll do what I need.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Chris M.
>
> Remove pants to email me.

Re: Server Farm Replication

We use a script file to automatically deploy the files rather than a GUI type
application. We deploy ZIP file containing the managed files. Registry
updates can be done at the same time, log files created etc. The actual
updates run on each server, but they can be initialised from a separate PC,
so several servers can be updated simultaneously

"Ken Schaefer" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "System Center" is just an overaching brand that encompassing a number of
> products.
>
> SCCM 2007 does some things. But App Center 2000 is proibably your best bet
> if you need to load balance COM+ etc
>
> Otherwise, you could look at packaging all the changes into MSI packages,
> and then deploy via SMS/SCCM, or Group Policy or similar tool...
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Chris M" wrote in message
> news:fk85tp$uhb$1@aioe.org...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I manage a load balanced IIS6 server farm running a classic ASP
> > application with a COM business logic layer written in VB6.
> >
> > The number of servers in the load balanced group is growing rapidly. I
> > need some way of automatically replicating changes to the application's
> > ASP, IIS configuration, registry or COM objects across the whole group of
> > servers easily.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any decent software that could do this? From the
> > research I have done it seems that Application Center 2000 might have
> > provided this facility, but it has been superseded by System Center and
> > I'm not 100% sure that it'll do what I need.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Chris M.
> >
> > Remove pants to email me.
>
>