My understanding from this discussion here is that the 7.5.1 version is a
no-go.

-Problem with the ports

-problem with shortname/FQDN

-GUI problem
>From this discussion it also seems EMC is not doing anything about this. Is
there no explanation?

Why did they release the sp 1 if it's just crap?

Wallace
2009/6/10 Robert Brault <RBrault AT edfinancial DOT com>

> Problem #1:
>
> I have had issues with refreshing of the application. If I leave the app
> open on a remote desktop session and then come back the next day my
> screen does not update for gui. I have to then close down the app and
> re-open it for the gui to have the new information.
>
> Problem #2:
>
> When I first installed networker it was already attached to the domain
> so the client name was called networker.domain.name. After installing
> the latest 7.5.1 it change my client name to just networker. I had to
> change my NDMP jobs to match the new name.
>
> Problem #3: Separate yet equally important issue.
>
> I upgraded to the latest version so that I could have a Server 2008 box
> as a storage node. This worked. But, I have since found that snapimage
> is not supported on for server 2008. They stated that they do not see
> supporting it in the future neither.
>
> -Robert
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Yaron Zabary
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:27 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker upgrade 7.4.4 - 7.5.1
>
> JKK wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm planning an networker ugrade from 7.4.4 to 7.5.1 in our
> distributed
> > environment consisting of 5 storage nodes and some 500 clients. We're
> using
> > single data zone.
> >
> > Acoring to documentation this is pretty easy.
> > it's recomended to run these commands
> > nsrim -X
> > nsrck -m
> > nsrck -L6
>
>   With 500 clients, this nsrck can take more than a day. This is a
> quote from a letter I sent to this forum on November 18th, 2008:
>
> "   If you need to run to run nsrck -L6, I suggest that you will do that
>
> in parallel. I use the following script (on Solaris) to get things to
> run faster:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd /nsr/index
> CLIENTS=`du -sk * | sort -nr | awk '{print $2}'`
>
> for client in $CLIENTS
> do
> echo $client
> at -s -qd now<<EOB
> time nsrck -L6 $client
> EOB
> sleep 1
> done
>
>   You need to add the third line to queuedefs for the above to work. It
>
> runs 20 jobs (on a 24 threads T1000). Since this process is CPU bound
> there is no point in doing much more than your processors (say five for
> your typical quad core Intel CPU).
>
> # cat /etc/cron.d/queuedefs
> a.4j1n
> b.10j2n90w
> d.20j4n60w
>
>   With the above I was able to check 70Gb of index which took over 22
> hours in under four hours."
>
>
> >
> > upgrade the storage nodes first. After that,it's pretty much
> next-next-
> > finish.
> >
> > Is anyone out there with experience doing an 7.5.1 upgrade? any
> issues? and
> > how where the issues resolved?
>
>   Last time I spoke with GlassHouse, they said that this upgrade is not
>
> recommended and that I should stay at 7.4.4. I am, however, dissatisfied
>
> with 7.4.4 which I why I wanted to upgrade. If you want to upgrade
> because of stability, I think 7.4.4.4 might be a better option (if you
> can get it). I will give a call to GH and see if I can get it from them.
>
> >
> > Johannes
> >
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> --
>
> -- Yaron.
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