Advice to bring new servers into production

[Crocker, Deborah]

We have a setup with 2 multi-masters and 3 consumers. We are now building new host and want to put them in place ultimately at the same IP address as the original ones. I need some advice on how to do this quickly and cleanly.

To add a new consumer the idea now is to set it up and set up replications agreements from each master using consumer DNS name (don't start continuous replication yet). After initializing new consumer from one master - turn off old consumer, remove old consumer agreement from each master, and re-IP new consumer. Do we need to restart masters to re-read DNS or will it pick that up when it starts the next replication? Is this the best way to do this?

Thanks

Deborah Crocker, PhD
Systems Engineer III 
Office of Information Technology 
The University of Alabama
Box 870346 
Tuscaloosa, AL 36587 
Office 205-348-3758 | Fax [phone] 
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