[news.eclipse.technology.ohf] Re: OHF Bridge & ibmod235 server

[Sarah Knoop <seknoop@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all,
As far as we know, the IBM Testing environment at Dallas is back up and 
running. Information about these IHE compliant test servers can be found 
here:

http://lswin10.dfw.ibm.com:9080/IBMIHII/serverInfoIHE_ConnectathonHIMSS2007.htm
- Sarah



Matthew Davis wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> Yesterday something happened to the IBM-controlled 
> ibmod235.dal-ebis.ihost.com server (aka "Dallas") and it is currently 
> not available.  This server has been both the public staging platform 
> for the OHF Bridge components as well as the main public RHIO (XDS and 
> PIX/PDQ) that most have been testing with.  As of now, there is no 
> guarantee this server will return – a major complication.  We will be 
> working to move the OHF Bridge web service components to another server 
> hosted internally and hopefully those components will return in a week 
> or two.  Another problem is that IBM currently does not have another 
> public PIX/PDQ system available.  They will be working to move their 
> PIX/PDQ system tested at IHE Connectathon 2007 to the lswin10 server. 
> This server will likely become our primary testing RHIO, as it will have 
> IHE 2006 PIX and XDS implementations.
>
> In the short term, people preparing and testing for HIMSS and 
> Connectathon Europe will have a couple options:
> 1.  There is a good possibility that the ibmod235 server will return 
> temporarily.  At that point, we will bring our OHF Bridge components 
> back online and you will be able to test there pending the move of those 
> components to a new permanent home.
> 2.  For Connectathon Europe and HIMSS, you will need to run the OHF 
> Bridge locally.  Those who recently finished Connectathon North America 
> will have the near "gold" version of the OHF IHE actors and OHF bridge 
> that we will likely use for HIMSS (barring critical problems).  Just 
> continue to use those locally and wait for news on which PIX server to 
> use.  You will be notified if any bug fixes are issued.
> - The problem for (2) is that we have been distributing the OHF Bridge 
> ready-to-run binaries and configuration via the ibmod235 server.  For 
> now, please contact us directly for those files.  Shortly we will 
> announce a formal release within the OHF project and the plug-ins will 
> become directly downloadable.  We are also working to refine a build 
> process for the OHF Bridge, so you can build the binaries yourself :)
>
> We will send updates in regards to this issue as we find out more.  In 
> the interim, hopefully ibmod235 returns.
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt