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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Perhaps we can just make the admin part unavailable for a while, while 
keeping the user download part on-line.

Tomasz


W dniu 25.10.2023 o 22:31, Vlad Mencl pisze:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> Just wondering whether it might be worth having a read-only replica of 
> CAT that could be used for maintenance like this.
>
> I understand it cannot be quickly stood up in time for this 
> maintenance event - but while it's all fine to put the admin side of 
> CAT off-line (no changes done over a time period), it might be 
> beneficial to keep the user-facing part (downloading of profiles) 
> going uninterrupted.
>
> At the very least to avoid getting bad reputation for "CAT not working".
>
> I run some of our services this way: where synchronising state would 
> be too difficult and they are bound to a single master instance, there 
> is a read-only replica to step in when the primary instance is under 
> maintenance or otherwise unavailable.
>
> Is this something that can be considered?
>
> Cheers,
> Vlad
>
>
> On 26/10/23 08:59, Tomasz Wolniewicz (via cat-users Mailing List) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    we are planning an update of the cat.eduroam.org site on Nov 2nd, 
> > between 10 and 11 UTC. Since this is a fairly big update including 
> > also the operating system, we will have to turn access off for some 
> > time to run some final tests.
> >
> > I will send information about new features once we are done.
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > Tomasz Wolniewicz
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Tomasz Wolniewicz

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