A Community of Learning SUNGARD SUMMIT 2007 | sungardsummit.com 1 Setting up a Luminis Test System Presented by: Michael Barsic Savannah College of Art and Design March 20, 2007 Course ID 463

2 Introduction Having a good test environment is essential for testing Upgrades and patches Browsers (and operating systems!) User complaints Also handy for channel development And all those crazy mods you read about on LDN and need to try out! So let’s discuss setting up a test environment

3 Course ID 463 Warning! SCAD does not use integrated … so we won’t discuss (much) SCAD runs on Solaris … so I don’t have any Luminis on Windows tips

4 Course ID 463 Agenda Why you need a good test environment (briefly) SCAD’s production environment Setting up our Luminis test machine Links to a Banner Test Environment Other test systems Blackboard (and events) CPIP Systems CAS Integrated Web Applications A Test Client Tips and Tricks

5 Course ID 463 Why you need a good test environment Patches and upgrades (to Luminis and other systems) Custom modifications (things you read about on LDN) Channel development Troubleshooting Training new staff!

6 Course ID 463 SCAD’s Production Environment Luminis Platform and calendar without Database is on same server (not recommended!) Banner LDI Events SSB integrated with SSO INB is not integrated Blackboard Receiving LDI Events CAS SSO Others Webmail integrated with CPIP Custom Web Applications with CAS

7 Course ID 463 SCAD’s Production UDC Environment

8 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine Use same or scaled down version of production SCAD Production: Solaris 9 on 4 processor with 16G RAM SCAD Test: Solaris 9 on 2 processor with 2G RAM

9 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine Make test think it’s production Helpful with Luminis since host name in numerous files Make test think other test machines are production (at very least to prevent accidents) Banner Database, INB and SSB e-Learning (WebCT, Blackboard, Moodle,…) Etc.. How: simple to modify /etc/hosts (or talk to Network Admin) localhost mytest mytest.scad.edu myscad myscad.scad.edu portal portal.scad.edu smtp smtp.scad.edu elearning elearning.scad.edu dbserv dbserv.scad.edu bannerweb bannerweb.scad.edu

10 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine Install Luminis with (close to) same custom.conf SCAD uses same (except database) We piggyback database on to a Banner test database Install production patches and hotfixes after this Raw Luminis, no custom channels, no users

11 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine: Data For true testing, you need production data LDAP Calendar Database Filesystem (nested-tables.xsl, css, templates, cars…) Possibly – SSO Components (GCF, SSB SSO, CPIP…) Possibly – Event Gateway

12 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine: Data Restore LDAP, calendar, filesystem from backups (covered in admin guide) Restore uPortal/Luminis database Oracle: exp for backup and imp for import Re-install SSO components Re-install event gateway

13 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine: Data – Cold Backup Option SCAD uses simpler restore option Use a cold filesystem backup of production Restoring LDAP, calendar, filesystem, SSO components and the event gateway SCAD completely stops Luminis once a week and performs a cold backup of sections of the filesystem stopcp –a tar selected sections of the filesystem Luminis is down for about 7 minutes Found that extracting tar on test to be simplest reproduction method, e.g., it’s very easy to script tar xzf lum_file.tar.gz

14 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine: Data – Cold Backup Option (2) Issues with the cold backup Web Server Memory settings – jvm12.conf SSL – *cert7.db, *key3.db Wrote script to update files Does not cover the database

15 Course ID 463 Luminis Test Machine: Data - Oracle SCAD does not perform weekly cold backups of DB In setting up the test machine: Use Oracle exp utility to create dump of production Test database schema/user deleted and recreated Restore dump of production on test with Oracle imp utility And due to cold backup restoration: Use configman to update database settings Adjust rdbm.properties file

16 Course ID 463 Linking to Banner Test Environment Event Gateway: SCTERPGateway/Events/config/event_providers.plist SSO to SSB: sct/authen/local.properties configman SCT_WEB_HOST= SCT_WEB_VPATH=/bantest/plsql

17 Course ID 463 Other systems: Blackboard/e-learning SCAD relies on /etc/hosts Test Luminis thinks test Blackboard is production Test Blackboard thinks test Luminis is production Events flow from cloned Banner through test Luminis to test Blackboard SSO from test Luminis to test Blackboard seamless FYI – testing Blackboard upgrades is big reason for maintaining this type of environment

18 Course ID 463 Other systems: Standalone at SCAD CPIP to Sun One Identity Manager then to Webmail Our test Luminis can SSO to production Webmail (careful!)

19 Course ID 463 Other systems: CAS Integration By default, CAS integrated production systems “safe” You cannot authenticate to a test Luminis and access a production CAS system For a full test, must have test CAS systems pointed to test Luminis As with Banner and Blackboard, SCAD relies on /etc/hosts

20 Course ID 463 A Test Client Again, SCAD relies on the hosts files Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: /etc/hosts Windows: C:Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts Include all test systems Luminis test Banner E-learning Others

21 Course ID 463 Tips and Tricks: Images Include a graphical cue of being on a test system Makes it obvious to testers SCAD Mistake: Non-tech user thought they were on test system Almost loaded test data into production Added graphical cues and alerted any testers to look for them

22 Course ID 463 Tips and Tricks: Announcements Check for and/or remove future announcements SCAD performs manual check SCAD Mistake: Sent duplicate s one week

23 Course ID 463 Tips and Tricks: Calendar Turn off reminders in test system ics.conf SCAD Mistake: Sent reminders from dismissed staff Sent duplicate reminders for a couple weeks Our help desk was not pleased (again!)

24 Course ID 463 Summary of SCAD’s Test System Creation Make test machine think it’s production Install Luminis on test Restore backup of production data to test Configure with test Banner environment Configure with other test systems Apply graphical changes, turn off calendar reminders Configure client machines for testing

25 Course ID 463 Summary You need a good test environment For Luminis, make test think it’s production Choose the best way * for you * to get production data into your test system Learn from SCAD’s mistakes Be careful!

26 Course ID 463 Questions & Answers Any questions?

27 Course ID 463 Thank You! Michael Barsic Please complete the online class evaluation form Course ID 463 SunGard, the SunGard logo, Banner, Campus Pipeline, Luminis, PowerCAMPUS, Matrix, and Plus are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Third-party names and marks referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. © 2007SunGard. All rights reserved.