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[Networker] "Upgraded" from 7.2 to 7.4 and totally confused

2008-10-02 13:12:23
Subject: [Networker] "Upgraded" from 7.2 to 7.4 and totally confused
From: Len Philpot <Len.Philpot AT CLECO DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:10:28 -0500
About four days ago, I upgraded a small test server (only, not the clients 
yet) from 7.2 to 7.4. This is Sun's "EBS" OEM'ed version of Networker. Not 
sure how it equates to Legato's versioning, but Sun lists it as 7.4, rev 
187. I've not yet located where in the mgt console I can find the 
'official' version...

Anyway, after much weeping and gnashing of teeth I finally got the console 
server running* and now see there's an alert, "Server is disabled update 
enabler required" (which explains why nothing is happening on the 
server!). I know what this means and in past upgrades I've been given an 
enabler to apply then subsequently authorize. Over the years when we 
upgraded from 4.26 to 5.01, 5.5, 6.1, etc., I'm sure we did this (it's 
been too many years ago to remember for sure, though!).

However, this time the media kit included no such enabler code - No white 
card with it on it, etc. Looking at the applied enablers under 
"Registrations" shows the exact same enablers as I had before the upgrade, 
all still permanently authorized.

Should I have been provided with an enabler? Or does anyone know of any 
temp keys? In the past at various times we've received (eg.) 15-day 
publically-available enablers for this or that, for which we subsequently 
received permanent auth codes following verification of payment via our 
Sun maintenance contracts. That is - I'm not asking for anything illegal, 
I just need to get rolling. I need to figure out how to get this test 
server working so I can try to learn the (apparently) significant changes 
from 7.2 to 7.4.

Thanks!!

* Is it just me or is this new Java (ack!) console really as clumsy as it 
initially seems? I never thought I'd miss nwadmin, but I do already... :-)
--
   Len Philpot 

   Cleco IT Network Services, PGO3 - ext 7167
(318) 484-7167    

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