I’m in the midst of a project where I am moving our Domino servers from 32-bit hardware to 64-bit VMs and upgrading the OS to Windows 2008 R2.
I am also upgrading all Domino servers to 9.0.1. I’ve done this before so that isn’t my question.
I have to move my Traveler server as well. This server also hosts iNotes mail. In the steps to do the moves to the new hardware, I will install the OS, install the current version of Domino (using another server.id), get all the databases on and the server working then upgrade to ND9.01, and when ready, down both the old and new, change IPs and host name, edit the notes.ini, and bring up the new server. I’ve had no issues doing it this way.
However. I’m not sure I can do this with Traveler. I would like to be able to install the current version of domino and traveler, test that it works, and then upgrade both domino and traveler and test it under the temporary server.id (we do have a test dns entry) and then be able to do the same steps above to move it into production.
I found this document but I’m not 100% sure on how to go about this exactly. My situation is the last one - moving a standalone server to a new standalone server.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=Administering+IBM+Notes+Traveler+9.0.1#action=openDocument&res_title=Moving_IBM_Notes_Traveler_to_a_new_server_A901&content=pdcontent&sa=true http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=Administering+IBM+Notes+Traveler+9.0.1#action=openDocument&res_title=Moving_IBM_Notes_Traveler_to_a_new_server_A901&content=pdcontent&sa=true
I’m a bit confused. Is it saying I can have two Traveler servers in my Domino domain?
I believe the installation auto generates internet site documents as I seem to have auto generated ones now. I can’t afford to break the production server in the process of this upgrade. 
And, when I upgraded in February of last year, my settings got broken. I have Web Configuration documents but I also appear to have internet site documents. Our users use one URL to reach their iNotes mail and another URL to reach Traveler. Can I just copy the existing Web Configuration documents and change the server name so that they are part of the new server, knowing that when I do the switch to the old server’s identity it will start using the documents presently there?
This document says that the following files/folders have to be copied over to the new server. a.) The entire directory of data\traveler\ntsdb and b.) The file: data\lotustraveler.nsf. Is the contents of the ntsdb folder version specific? Would it be better to move to new hardware/OS and current version version of Domino/Traveler (8.5.3) and do the identity switch, and then bring it back down and upgrade Domino and Traveler? We may be a small company (77 Traveler users) but they are relentless when they aren’t able to send or receive mail.
how do I get an existing user to test connectivity if the domino server has a different name?
Also, I read in another thread that the latest version of traveler requires SSL? Is this true because we don’t use it. I thought I had read that it is still http or https.
UPDATED:
I also found this document which pertains to 8.5.3UP2
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=Administering+Lotus+Notes+Traveler+8.5.3+Upgrade+Pack+2#action=openDocument&res_title=Moving_a_standalone_Lotus_Notes_Traveler_server_to_a_new_server_A853UP2&content=pdcontent http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=Administering+Lotus+Notes+Traveler+8.5.3+Upgrade+Pack+2#action=openDocument&res_title=Moving_a_standalone_Lotus_Notes_Traveler_server_to_a_new_server_A853UP2&content=pdcontent
In this document, I would be looking at the Minimal Data scenario because I’m moving from 32-bit to 64-bit OS and 32-bit to 64-bit Domino.
Thank you.