[Evergreen-dev] Migrating Away From Evergreen

[Galen Charlton]

Hi Brian,

We are sorry to see you go!

Some additional things to consider include:


   - Turning off the ability of your Evergreen system to send email at all;
   some of the emails it can generate don't go through Action Trigger
   - Preventing any scheduled reports from running after the transition;
   you can do this by deleting all rows from the reporter.schedule table whose
   run_time is in the future
   - Updating circulation and hold policies on the Evergreen side to
   prevent new hold requests, loans, and renewals
   - If you've used Evergreen's SIP or Z39.50 servers, making sure they are
   turned off
   - Once you're past the point where you want to offer the Evergreen OPAC
   at all, setting up a redirect in Apache to the new catalog


Regards,

Galen

On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM Brian Holda via Evergreen-dev <
evergreen-dev at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As these things go, we are actually migrating away from Evergreen (into
> Alma). Last official day for patrons/staff changing things in Evergreen is
> this Fri, 5/10. However, the catalog will still be up for a little bit as
> we plan to migrate to Alma Wed, 5/15.
>
> Firstly, I truly want to thank this community for supporting me/us in MANY
> ways since my short time at Calvin. Will miss learning from you and with
> you.
>
> Second, wondering what advice you all could give me with gracefully
> migrating away from Evergreen.
>
> My basic plan is:
>
>    - remove cronjobs that make changes to Evergreen – thinking of things
>    like automated letters
>    - disable all notifications/actions (in Local Administration >
>    Notifications/actions triggers) – thinking of things like automated letters
>    - remove access for patrons to login (and inadvertently change things)
>    in the interim of the 2 systems
>    - hide action options in the catalog (like making requests) during the
>    interim of the 2 systems
>    - after we've completely migrated all data and functions of Evergreen
>    (which will likely take months if not longer), compress and archive the
>    system to a NAS
>
>
> Brian Holda
> Library Technology Manager
> Hekman Library
> Calvin University
> (616) 526-8673
>
> <https://library.calvin.edu/>
>
>
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-- 
Galen Charlton
Implementation and IT Manager
Equinox Open Library Initiative
gmc at equinoxOLI.org
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