December 17, 2015
"The Cloud"Recently, we migrated our Clarify/Dovetail implementation to the cloud. Specifically, into Amazon’s AWS infrastructure.We setup a sandbox environment a couple months ago, and then migrated our production instance this month.As far as I know, we have the only Clarify production implementation running in the cloud.If you navigate to our support site at https://support.dovetailsoftware.com – that’s all running in AWS.We have multiple AWS servers/components in play, as well as some tools that we use, which I’ll cover in more detail here. Application ServerThe app server is Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter edition.No surprise, we run our Dovetail suite of applications, including:Dovetail AdminDovetail AgentDovetail MobileDovetail Agent ReportingDovetail SelfServiceBOLTBootstrapCarrierRulemanagerSeekerSchemaEditorArchiveManager (DIET)In addition, we also have some of our own customizations, including:Custom web servicesCustom Rulemanager actions (mostly Powershell scripts)Custom scheduled tasks (mostly Powershell scripts) Database ServerThe database server is Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter, running Microsoft…
Clarify / Dovetail – in the Cloud
December 17, 2015
"The Cloud"Recently, we migrated our Clarify/Dovetail implementation to the cloud. Specifically, into Amazon’s AWS infrastructure.We setup a sandbox environment a couple months ago, and then migrated our production instance this month.As far as I know, we have the only Clarify production implementation running in the cloud.If you navigate to our support site at https://support.dovetailsoftware.com – that’s all running in AWS.We have multiple AWS servers/components in play, as well as some tools that we use, which I’ll cover in more detail here. Application ServerThe app server is Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter edition.No surprise, we run our Dovetail suite of applications, including:Dovetail AdminDovetail AgentDovetail MobileDovetail Agent ReportingDovetail SelfServiceBOLTBootstrapCarrierRulemanagerSeekerSchemaEditorArchiveManager (DIET)In addition, we also have some of our own customizations, including:Custom web servicesCustom Rulemanager actions (mostly Powershell scripts)Custom scheduled tasks (mostly Powershell scripts) Database ServerThe database server is Windows Server 2008 R2 DataCenter, running Microsoft…