Relay Drive movement

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Hi, i want to move drive of almost 500 relay servers from C drive to D , as C drive is having less space compare to D

  • do i need to move agent as well to set the caching size along with relay.
  • how can i manage failover while moving drive?
  • is there any WAN impact of it?
  • How many servers i should move out

thanks

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Mail2vij,

You do not need to move the agent.

You can use this fixlet (I havent tested this): https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/612 to move just the relay cache and not the actual relay software.

I would probably just uninstall and reinstall the relays. On reinstall point it to the D:\ drive.

I wouldn’t worry about failover. Clients have a cache of the data and the relay will be done for less than a minute.

The WAN impact could be large – uninstalling and reinstalling will mean the relays wipe their caches and have to re-cache packages. All of your relays will redownload content. As long as you don’t have a horrifically slow WAN i wouldn’t worry about this either.

I would move my servers in batches.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks for reply,

So that means there is no need of un-install / reinstall client software?

Do we have similar option for client data drive movement? if in case c drive is less space?

Do i need to un-install / re-install relay or just to execute fixlet option #2 which moves wwwroot folder only which you mentioned?

the fixlet which you mentioned is moving wwwrootbes folder and renaming to wwwroot as i have relay version 9.2.5? so renaming is not an issue correct?