Upgrading server hardware on existing failover pair

King, Harold Clyde (Hal) hck at utk.edu
Tue Apr 3 14:48:38 UTC 2012


Hi I inherited some DHCP servers and I'd kile to know the "graceful"
shutdown sequence. Would you folks mind sharing that? We're just killing
the service. 

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On 4/3/12 10:43 AM, "Oscar Ricardo Silva" <oscars at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

>Thanks for the responses.  I forgot to mention that I use omshell to
>"gracefully" bring down the server and it notifies the partner.
>Whenever we need to reload for a new configuration I bring one server
>down this way, the partner is notified of the state change and goes into
>"partner-down".
>
>For now I'll be keeping both servers on 3.1.3.  We've written some
>patches that our developers need to check against new versions.
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>Oscar
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>Message: 5
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:58:16 +0000
>From: Randall C Grimshaw <rgrimsha at syr.edu>
>To: Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
>Subject: RE: Upgrading server hardware on existing failover pair
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>Technically, I think that at the time you gracefully shut down the peer,
>that you will not be in partner down mode. If you plan to be down long
>you will want to manually put the host into partner down mode or risk
>exhausting the half of your pool that is still available.
>This may not affect your transition, but it is a technical issue you
>should be aware of in an outage. - self inflicted or otherwise.
>
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>Randall Grimshaw rgrimsha at syr.edu
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>From: dhcp-users-bounces+rgrimsha=syr.edu at lists.isc.org
>[dhcp-users-bounces+rgrimsha=syr.edu at lists.isc.org] on behalf of Oscar
>Ricardo Silva [oscars at mail.utexas.edu]
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:30 PM
>To: dhcp-users at lists.isc.org
>Subject: Upgrading server hardware on existing failover pair
>
>We currently have a pair of servers running ISC 3.1.3 in a failover
>configuration.  Both physical servers are scheduled to be replaced with
>newer hardware and I'd like to bounce my plan off the list to be sure
>it's sane.
>
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>1.  Shut down dhcpd on the secondary (gracefully).  The primary should
>go into partner-down
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>2.  Copy configuration and leases file from old secondary to new secondary
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>3.  Bring up *NEW* secondary, make sure it can communicate on the network
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>4.  Start dhcpd on the *NEW secondary and it should communicate with the
>primary and get updates
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>5.  Wait until both servers are in the *NORMAL* state
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>6.  Repeat these steps for the primary
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>*SHOULD* this work without an expected interruption in service?  I know
>during upgrades, things can and will go wrong but I'd like to avoid the
>obvious things as much as possible.
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>
>Oscar
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