Dear all,

extensive tests have been conducted using late versions of OpenAM and 
the policy management software. Through source code improvments and 
server configuration enhancements by Nina and Vedrin, combined with 
more powerful hardware, we have found a setup that yields a significant 
performance gain compared to the production machine. Thus, in 
accordance with discussions in the development meetings, we propose to 
switch to the new setup on

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 10:00 CEST

IMPORTANT: No policies from the current production system can be 
automatically transferred to the new system due to a bug in OpenAM. 
This means that you must download and save any policies you want to 
retain, and restore them on the new service. A command line tool that 
may support you is available from 
http://vedina.github.com/opentox-aa-cli/. The shutdown of the old 
production service will be announced separately, and will happen not 
long after the above date.
Otherwise, no action is required from your side, since switching will 
simply happen by altering the DNS entry for opensso.in-silico.ch (the 
AA service host name).

If you are interested in the optimizations mentioned above, for 
example for setting up your own AA service using OpenAM, please visit 
the updated guide on 
http://www.opentox.org/dev/documentation/Guidance%20on%20Using%20AA/.

Best regards
Andreas