Hi, I am having a bad time trying to migrate a Netview 4.1 system to 5.1 - Here is my situation: I am currently trying to migrate a Netview V4.1 system to Netview V5.1.1. The platform is a RS6000 E30
Author: "Ken Garst." <KGarst AT GIANTOFMARYLAND DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:15:52 -0400
When upgrading from AIX 4.2.1 and NetView 4.1 to AIX 4.3.2 and NetView 5.1.1, I faced the same question as you, i.e. whether to migrate or do a complete install. I chose to do a complete, brand new i
Author: James Shanks <James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:08:18 -0400
Ken - I don't know what may fail, but your procedure assumes that nothing new was added and that nothing old was changed when we went from NetView V4 to NetView V5. That's not an assumption I would l
Author: "Ken Garst." <KGarst AT GIANTOFMARYLAND DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:46:00 -0400
Ken - I don't know what may fail, but your procedure assumes that nothing new was added and that nothing old was changed when we went from NetView V4 to NetView V5. That's not an assumption I would l
Author: James Shanks <James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:43:18 -0400
Ahhh. If all you copy is the databases, then you should indeed be fine. But that means you would have to have the same exact environment on 4.1 as on 5.1. So if you had some third-party app installed
Hi Ken & James, So I conclude that:- 1. When all else fails I may be able to tar/untar the /usr/OV/databases area from the old to the new system. 2. Migrating - the Tivoli preferred method - is a pro
Simon I believe if you would create the /usr/OV/seedfile/ directory before starting the migration the installation would complete with the one warning for security. You should have a successful migra
Author: Ken Freeman <Ken.Freeman AT WOOLWICH.CO DOT UK>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:47:39 +0100
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Author: "Ken Garst." <KGarst AT GIANTOFMARYLAND DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:09:37 -0400
I would not conclude that migrating is necessarily "fraught" with problems. I strongly endorse James Shanks' correct way of doing things unless you have the specific situation where the "fast migrati
Author: James Shanks <James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:42:56 -0400
I don't see a problem with the databases, but there could be a smalll problem if you just copy over your V4 trapd.conf and later want to forward events to TEC. Are you doing that, Ken? The reason is
Author: "Ken Garst." <KGarst AT GIANTOFMARYLAND DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:49:59 -0400
I am not using the TEC so the changed format for these specific traps in NetView 5.1.1 does not affect me. Regards, ken kgarst AT giantofmaryland DOT com