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John_Meggers
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Oct 03, 2012

ASM Best Practice for Major Web Site Updates

We are planning an ASM deployment, and we expect one of the web servers will have periodic significant upgrades. We are trying to determine what our approach will be when that happens. We're assuming...
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mister_paul_717
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Oct 03, 2012
I recommend having ASM in your test environment. Perform the upgrade in the test environment and test heavily. In that environment, you probably won't have malicious traffic (unless you throw a tool or a pen tester at it), but if you fully exercise the functionality, especially the new functionality, you should be able to determine what needs to change.

 

 

Paul