Pat,

I did this last week.  If all you are going to do is upgrade then it is
very simple.

1. Halt ADSM
2. Install the new software
3. Start ADSM with the command "dsmserv upgradedb".

The "dsmserv upgradedb" changes the format of the database from an
earlier version to the current version.  All your policies, devices,
etc. will be preserved.  As a matter of fact we did not have one of our
tape drives online and ADSM started complaining because it wanted to
backup the database to that device.

What I did was actually move the server to another system and then
upgrade.  This was more involved, but was still relatively easy.

Pat Kelly wrote:
>
> We are getting ready to do a upgrade from ADSM 2.1.5.6 to 3.1. Speaking with
> IBM tech support, it seems that the technicians do not agree on whether or
> not I am going to have to manually rebuild my policies, devices, device
> classes and such. Has anyone out there gone through this upgrade? If so, is
> it a pretty straight forward process or does it take a lot of manual
> reconfiguration?
>
> Pat Kelly
> pkelly AT pioneer.state.nd DOT us


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