I use the license server for all my licenses - it's useful for
determining which licenses are really needed because a host won't check
one out unless it actually needs one..
I have two different types of update enablers setup in the license
server.
So I have one server that started life back at version 5 and is now at
7.2.2 - It continually requests the old 'Update for NetWorker 7' (U8)
enabler from when you go from 6 to 7. I can delete it on the host, and
it checks out soon afterwards, and that's all as expected. All my other
servers started life at 7.1.1 or later so they don't ask for this.
I've upgraded 5 servers from 7.2.2 to 7.3.3 recently and not one of them
has checked out the new 'Update/9' (U9) enabler - I recall that you
needed U9 if you went from 7.2 to 7.3 / 7.3.1 / 7.3.2, but someone at
emc has realised it was a deterrent to people upgrading to 7.3+ and
dropped it from 7.3.3 onwards, I think I saw this mentioned in the 7.3.3
release notes.
However If I was running the emc support organisation I would still like
people to ring up and ask for the enabler, because then they can keep
tabs on who's upgrading, and the theory at least is that the better
their understanding of the userbase, the better their support will be.
I doubt there's any difference between windows and unix - It's not an
issue for me, but perhaps if someones got the time to test it out it may
help put the licensing question to rest for good.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Coty, Edward
> Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:36 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Conversion 7.2.2 to 7.4 sp1
>
> News to me. I upgraded 7.2.2 to 7.4.1 without issues and additional
> steps being performed. This was a unix server upgrade. Maybe
> windows is
> different.
>
>
> EDWARD COTY
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:05 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Conversion 7.2.2 to 7.4 sp1
>
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Browning, David wrote:
> > Ok, I just got off the phone/webex with Legato support, and he's
> > telling me there's some undocumented steps that need to be taken
> > BEFORE you upgrade to 7.4. I now have to do a disaster
> recovery back
> > to 7.2.2, and run the conversion to 7.4 AGAIN.
> >
> > Has anyone else heard about this?
> >
> > Once I get the email with those steps, I will pass it along.
>
> Please do pass along that info. Its news to me.
>
> One of the things I know needs to be done on each client and
> the server
> after the upgrade is to issue the command
>
> nsrports -C 0-0
>
> Then restart NetWorker.
>
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