Live on Luminis IV
Plymouth State University went live in production with an upgrade to Luminis IV today. After four months of planning and preparation, the upgrade wrapped up and we cut over to the new system at 3AM this morning. This was a gigantic team effort involving a large number of IT staff members and community involvement.
We went from Solaris 9 to Red Hat AS3 as part of this upgrade/migration.
In addition to the upgrade, we took this as an opportunity to perform a massive visual revamping of our portal. We now leverage and rely on a great deal of JavaScript using JQuery to accomplish a number of enhancements. This is a HIGHLY modified instance of Luminis.
Unfortunately, we do not have a guest account (yet) for you to look around our new portal, but you can see the front door here: http://my.plymouth.edu and view a tour here: http://go.plymouth.edu/myplymouth4tour
As a whole this was not a smooth transition. Most of the delivered migration pieces failed for us. Many of the existing integration points had to be massaged or redone entirely.
However, we are looking forward to a new set of problems on a fresh new platform!
Over the next few weeks, we'll try to share as much of what we did as possible, including our remote JS channel structure we developed.
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Congrats
Congratulations guys. I hope to see a demo account soon... I wanna take a peek around...
Congrats!
Great job on the release of IV in production - you're a brave soul and leading the pack. I don't know of anyone else that has gone live yet, and on RedHat no less. I can't wait to hear the horror / success stories from the migration, rebuild and modification side of things. I saw your portal in 'beta' at Summit and the mods at that point were insane! (that's good). And you made your launch date too, that rocks.
When the dust settles and you feel like recounting the horrors feel free to post 'em.
Great job man - kudos to you and your team - looking forward to the demo account and countless tutorials on how you did what.
- Jon
AS3?
So did you buy AS3? Isn't that an old version of Red Hat? How'd that all work out for you?
yeah...
We weren't happy about it, but we wanted to be supported. We'd prefer to be on AS4 or AS5, but hey what are ya gonna do...
Solaris to Linux migration not supported
Since the delivered migration is *only* supported between the same operating systems,
I was wondering how you guys managed to migrate from solaris to linux?
What's My Username
Zach,
Did someone at your school write the What's My Username utility?
Stephen
Add Us To the List of Live with Luminis 4
We went live with Luminis 4 - May 27th. We migrated from Luminis 3.3. We found plenty of bugs, migration errors, etc - I think we open around 15 incidents with Support. Some are solved, others are not. Biggest problem is events not working with Webct CE 4.
Sara Huntley
Luminis System Admin
University of North Alabama
Has anyone got Luminis IV/LMB to WebCT CE4 working?
Sorry you're having trouble with events in CE4... and I'm even sorrier that we are also. The issue at our site seems to be related to the authentication request to WebCT made by the LMB:
POST /webct/luminisSystemIntegrationApi.dowebct
The POST produces a 401 authentication error (according to the Apache log), saying that the userID used by LMB is not authorized to access the API (we've triple checked the LMB integration parameters -- userIDs, passwords, shared secrets, etc.) on both ends...
If anyone has real-time CE4 <-> Luminis IV/LMB working, would you be willing to post some sample values for both WebCT's LMB settings and the LMB's WebCT settings... or maybe point to some "official" examples somewhere?