Anyone do a redirect for Employee/Manager Space for downtimes?

I am being asked to create some 'redirect' so we can pop a message if Employee/Manager Space is down for Maintenance.

Our internal web developer is wanting to put a layer /web page in front of our regular url to get to Employee/Manager Space that would always hit this custom page first and then direct to our employee space url. If we have a downtime, he would manually set a flag to redirect to an 'outage page'

I have great concern with doing this.

We are federated and authenticate on lsf side but I'm being instructed to let him do it.

We can test to a certain degree in our TEST environment but we are NOT federated in TEST so.. I just have a lot of concerns.

Wondering what anyone else does?

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unknown

Fortunately, we are not a 24/7/365 shop. We disable access every morning (early) for maintenance.

unknown

We set up a page in IIS that displays a down time message. This works when WebSphere is down and IIS receives a 500 response code. It is a file type of redirect.

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unknown

could you email me some specifics? abice@genesishcs.org.

I am high level technical but when it comes to web layer stuff, I am not that knowledgeable so any help with speaking the talk with our web developer would be greatly appreciated

Thank you!

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unknown

Hi Annette,

You should receive an email from me with screen shots.

deanna-plant

Hi Jim, Can you please send me your screen shots as well? Interesting concept. Deanna.plant@blessinghealthsystem.org

Thank you!

unknown

Anyone doing this in Webshpere? Our in house developers are IIS but Infor indicated we had to use WebSphere so we lack knowledge with that all together....

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d-hofmann

In our Lawson 9 systemWhen we are doing maintenance, we used to replace the Index.html file for Lawsonportal with another index.html that basically said we are doing maintenance. When we were done, we would but the orginal file back with a batch file.

Not sure how we will address this in Mingle yet..

unknown

Hi Annette, We had the same (when on 9). Now that we're Mingle/Portal, we do the redirect on the Mingle side using two PowerShell scripts on the Mingle server that automatically adjust 3 IIS properties:

1. lawsondown.bat

rem Author: Lenny Courchaine

rem Purpose: To present "Lawson/eHR Unavailable" page when Lawson/eHR has to be down.

rem 1. Set the url for the down splash page

rem (be sure to update the message in that file on lsfprod.choa.org:/lsftest/web/lawson/portal/lawsondown.htm)

c:windowssystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe set config "lsfprod-443" -section:system.webServer/httpRedirect /destination:"lsfprod.choa.org/.../lawsondown.htm"

c:windowssystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/httpRedirect /destination:"lsfprod.choa.org/.../lawsondown.htm"

rem 2. Activate the setting for Exact URL destination

c:windowssystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe set config "lsfprod-443" -section:system.webServer/httpRedirect /exactDestination:"True"

c:windowssystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/httpRedirect /exactDestination:"True"

rem 3. Turn on redirection

c:windowssystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe set config "lsfprod-443" -section:system.webServer/httpRedirect /enabled:"True"

c:windowssystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/httpRedirect /enabled:"True"

Then the lawsonup.bat file does the opposite. Works great for us.

Let me know if you have questions.

Lenny

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