Comments on: Why Static IPs?

By: MBH

MBH — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:29:48 +0000

We’re implementing SAP, not Oracle. Changing the IPs on the servers/application is easy. Changing it on clients’ PCs is a headache.

There is a workaround though: The client GUI has the ability to take the list of servers from a webserver. So we can change the IPs and update the list on the server and voila!

By: Bloggylife

Bloggylife — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:45:26 +0000

you know what I need to do, go beat the hell out of our application ppl ;P they always make a big fuss about changing their IPs, especially Oracle ppl! But I read about Oracle databases and applications suites, it’s a pretty lengthy process to change server’s IPs, that was a while back in my old job

By: MBH

MBH — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:30:15 +0000

Applications should not code a machine’s IP into themselves. It would require source-code change should the network change. This means down-time.

Use a unique machine-name and then map the machine name to an IP in the hosts file.