Setting up a dev/QA box, and connecting it to prod

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All,

I would like to put up a dev box with the latest beta version of wildfire, and have myself and a few use that while the rest of the company uses the stable production server.

I have 3 main questions around this…

  1. Can I/Do I use Server 2 Server to allow myself on the beta box to contact and see presence of the prod users?

  2. Can I use the same properties, not the same physical file, but the same options to pull in users and groups etc, that I use for prod?

  3. Are there any negitive impacts testing with this method??

Thanks

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Hi,

wvankuyk wrote:

  1. Can I/Do I use Server 2 Server to allow myself on the beta box to contact and see presence of the prod users?

Yes, if you subscribe to the other users. If you pull shared groups from LDAP or use shared groups this will cause problems.

  1. Can I use the same properties, not the same physical file, but the same options to pull in users and groups etc, that I use for prod?

You must use another database and another xmpp.domain, LDAP access is read-only so this is not a problem.

  1. Are there any negative impacts testing with this method??

As mentioned above: Shared groups using multiple server are tricky.

LG