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[Networker] Advice on upgrading from 7.2.2?
2008-07-07 18:41:02
Hi,
Sorry to beat on a topic that has probably been hammered many times
over, but I've been out of the loop for quite some time now, and need a
boost to get caught up.
We need to upgrade our 7.2.2 release (please, no laughs - ah, yeah),
running on Solaris 9. We use two snode servers (each runs RH Linux ES 3
with NW 7.2.2).
1. Can someone recommend which is the most recent stable NW release to
upgrade to?
We rely on cloning a lot. I remember hearing some mischief a while ago
about bugs with all that stuff in later releases and wanted to avoid any
such nightmares, hence one of the reasons for postponing, but that was
probably fixed a long time ago, though. Also, I've heard nwadmin is
gone, but doesn't take too long to get up and running with the new
interface (much better capabilities), whatever that is?
2. Will it be necessary to upgrade to 7.3.x first and then to 7.4.x?
3. Will we need to upgrade our clients immediately, say, before
upgrading the server? Would be kind of a pain to have to do that the
same day as the server upgrade.
4. Will we need to upgrade our snode OS, too, or just the NW version on
there?
5. Any particular gotchas on the upgrade? We have about 15 GB of free
space, and our largest index is about 2 GB, media database is about 257
MB with about 12 GB of total index usage.
6. Guess we'll need a new enabler code?
Last time we went from 6.x to 7.x we had some weirdness with one enabler
code that kept disabling itself. That was finally resolved with a no
expiration date code, and then we had another problem that was caused by
the old serial number (a legacy from the original release way back) not
matching the new SN format that was adopted in later releases. That was
finally fixed. Sheesh! Hope that frustration doesn't happen again this
go around.
Thanks.
George
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