[Networker] NMS - upgrade path dead end
2010-05-20 11:01:50
Hi gang,
I was trying to upgrade to the new NMDA for our Sybase servers as it is
replacing NMS. I ran into a snag as our version of Sybase (12.x) is not
supported for NMDA. Still we got it mostly working but not completely so
we needed to back track to NMS v3.0 again as we're in the sloooow
process of phasing out Sybase and have no plans to upgrade to any other
version of Sybase including 15.x at all.
As such I need to run the NMS module for the next couple of years at
least (I said slooooow did I not?) but will eventually find it's
breaking point and need to resort to backing up disk dumps instead of
using this nice module we paid a lot of money to use.
I need to upgrade our backup server SW soon and am trying to figure out
when an upgrade will break the license keys or SW for our 2 NMS
installs. I would like to know ahead of time to have some warning before
it happens. It may also allow me to pick the right version to upgrade to
that gives us the longest use of NMS. I'll likely leave the old 7.4.4
client on these 2 boxes as well and only upgrade our backup server and
other clients.
EMC support has been far less than helpful in this regard and despite
reading Release notes many times, I never seem to find any notes about
license changes when upgrading to a newer version of Networker. Perhaps
I'm missing something but Release Notes seem to be mostly bug fixes and
new features and little to nothing about license changes.
Currently we are running Networker 7.4.4 on the backup server and client
on our Sybase boxes. All Solaris 10 Sparc boxes and NMS version 3.0.
Is anyone out there running NMS with a newer version of the Networker
server? If so what version are you running? 7.5.x? 7.6.x?
Isn't unsupported SW fun?
Thanks!
Paula
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Computer and Network Services
University of Manitoba
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