[Networker] Horrible problems with base enabler disabled?

I've set up a new test 7.2.1 server on a Solaris 2.9 box, and I'm havinga lot of problems with the base enabler getting disabled.

When I stop and re-start the software, NetWorker reports that the baseenabler has been disabled. If I then stop the software, run 'nsradmin -d/nsr/res/nsrdb', delete the base enabler, restart the software and thenre-add the 45-Day enabler, via the nwadmin GUI, the server happilyidentifies the new 7.2.1 release and is perfectly calm. If I check theregistration window, NetWorker reports the expiration date as Aug 082006. All well and fine. But when I shut it down and then re-start, atthat point, it's back to the same problem. If I go to the registrationwindow, NetWorker now reports the expiration date as May 2001. EMC hasgiven us 3 different enablers, and it's the same situation every time. Idid add an "Update for NetWorker 7" enabler code, and that remains withan expiration date of July 31, 2006 shut down after shut down and neverchanges. However, I did not add this when the test machine was at 6.x.It was at 6.x first so we could recover the resource database from ourolder 6.1.1 machine, and then I uninstalled the 6.x software and addedthe 7.2.1 software.

The old server (runs 6.1.1 and is used to run our nightly backups) is*NOT* up on the network while we're running the new server. The newserver has the same ip name as the old server to make the transitioneasier. Since only one server is up at at time there are no IPconflicts. I even tried removing all the old licenses since they expiredon Jun 20, 2006 and then added 45-Day enablers for all of them. They allshow Aug expiration dates, but the darn base enabler just keepsdisabling and expiring back to May 2001 every time I start and re-startthe software.


Does anyone have any ideas of what might be causing this?

Legato is recommending that we start all over again from scratch, butthis whole business of "Update/8" has me confused. When they gave me anenabler for what they said was "Update/8", the registration window namesit: "Update for NetWorker 7". We already have an "Update/5", "Update/6"and "Update/7" installed on our old 6.1.1 server, but the '7' doesn'trefer to version 7. This enabler was installed way back when we were atlike 6.0.1 or something. What enablers do we need to install and at whatpoint do we install them when moving the 6.x machine to 7.x? At whatpoint do we add the new 45 day enablers for all our old licenses, and atwhat point do we remove the old ones?

Another thing we notice is that in our old release, we have somethingcalled Turbopak. They gave us a 45-Day enabler for this to load on thenew machine. When I loaded it on the 7.2.1 server, it identified it as:"NetWorker, Network Edition" or something like that, but it's expirationdate does remain at Aug 08, 2006, and doesn't do anything weird likerevert back to an expired date when I re-start the software.


Thanks.

George

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