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We are looking to upgrade to Bb 9 on a new server and run our current Bb 6.2.3 system at the same time.  This will allow faculty to experiment with the new version and start migrating content without having to shut down 6.2.3 system.

Is there a way to have 2 SSO links for Blackboard in the Luminis portal?  Has anyone experimented with this?  We would appreciate any help on insight to this.

Thanks.

 I upgraded from LP 4.2.0.7 to 4.2.2.34 recently in my test environment.  We have PD with two web tiers.   The login page has been completely rewritten.  It seems to have a sticky session.  Once you login to a web server you always hit that same server until you clear cookies.  This seems to defeat the purpose of having PD.  Not all users have their browsers set to clear cookies when they close the browser so they will always hit the same server.  Has anyone else noticed this?  Am I missing something?

 We've noticed that when Banner is unavailable, our Portal becomes very slow and unresponsive.  Is this true of everyone running Luminis 4.x?

For those of you that upgraded to Banner 8, did you leave your Luminis portal up or take it down as part of that process?

I've considered leaving it up, and trying to configure Luminis to remain fast.  By either figuring out how to make Luminis think that we do not have Banner at all, or by reducing timeouts/threads, or other banner pool properties.

I've noticed a few recent posts about schools moving away from Luminis (specifically to Liferay & Sharepoint).  I am curious why your switcthing, what your switching to and what else was considered.  Also, what do you expect to lose/re-create because of the switch?

(I'm in no way declaring my school is thinking of switching, I'm just curious of the reasoning.)  I am aware the Luminis & UPortal portals are pretty old school as far as a webportal is concerned.

We are upgarding our banner 7 to banner 8 over the MLK weekend. During this entire weekend banner will be down. We are advertising to our students that the portal will be up and running but there will not be any banner functionality available (self service, ssb chanels etc).

We tested to see what the channels would look like in the portal and they are displaying the follwoing error messages:

- Unsupported OID devices
- CPIP connection error

So we upgraded ou test server and rand the fix url script. Unfortunatly it added lots of new lines to all the files in Luminis. Does any one no how to remove all the line breaks without having to reinstall froms scratch.

Error: 

Hello,

We're trying a dry run migration of Luminis 3.3.3 to Luminis 4.  We managed to export the platform and calendar data (Result 0 Errors, 0 Warnings).

When importing the data, the platform data imported, but we're having problems with the calendar data import.

After a while, the calander data import locks up, with no more output to the log file.  I had a look in the cs5migrate.log file and saw errors like this:

For the last three weeks our graph of logged in users has been showing unusually high counts.  We would normally expect to see counts of 600-800 users during the day and for it to drop off to less than 20 around 4 a.m.  Lately we've been peaking at just under 4000 and the numbers lately haven't dropped below 700 even at 6 a.m.  It seems like sessions aren't being cleaned up, although I do see timeouts and logouts in the session.log.  Right now we have session.timeout set at 25 minutes.  Our SSB timeout is set at 30 minutes and UserSessionManager.SweepInterval is set

Has anyone heard anything about Luminis 5 recently?  Based on Summit this year, I thought SGHE was targeting this fall for beta-testing with a release in the first half of 2010.  I don't see anything on the support center so far.   I'm just curious.

Hi,

Every now and then we receive complains from our teachers because -unexpectedly-  in course studio one of their courses "is not shown" and they can't get into their course site.

In order to correct this we re-synchronize the mising CRN, but when this situation happens in a weekend -and there's no one to help- our teachers they literally get mad.

Has anyone deal with this?