Thanks for everyone's feedback on this. John, thanks especially for the
notes on older AIX clients. We do have a couple of those left. Remco, we
do plan to send out a notice to these users, but I also wanted to find out
if they were likely to stop working or not. We have over a thousand
clients running 5.1.5, so there's no way we can get all of them to upgrade
in a short timeframe (we don't manage desktop machines centrally here).
No one mentioned Mac clients. That's the one platform where we've had a
problem in the past when we upgraded our server software.
I also noticed the following item in IBM's "end-of-life" announcement for 5.3:
Select support for three operating systems will be added to TSM 5.4 in
April 2008. Special 5.3.6 backup-archive clients and 5.3.6.3 storage
agents will be supported on only these operating systems, for use with TSM
5.4 and 5.5 servers.
However (as was noted some time ago on this list), these 5.3.6 clients are
not yet available. It would be nice to know if there are code changes for
5.3.6, or if this is just a repackaging of some sort. It's a bit annoying
that these will only be made available "in the nick of time" before 5.3
server support ends.
..Paul
At 03:06 PM 4/10/2008, Schneider, John wrote:
Paul,
We just upgraded our AIX 5.3.5.1 server at one location to
5.4.2, and when we did, we found some unreliability problems show up on
some AIX clients running TSM 5.2.0.0 and TSM 5.1.5.
These were neglected clients anyway, and should have been
upgraded long ago. So we upgraded one of them to TSM 5.4.2 yesterday,
and the problem seems to have gone away. We will be doing this to the
rest of them soon.
Best Regards,
John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO 63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
Email: John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net
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Paul Zarnowski
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Anyone know of issues running older clients against
5.4.3 server?
We are about to upgrade our servers from 5.3.4 to 5.4.3. I'd like to
know if anyone knows of any problems running older clients with a 5.4.x
server. While I know IBM only supports 1 version back, it's usually the
case that older clients continue to work (with some exceptions). Thanks
for any feedback. We still have a bunch of 5.1.5 clients out there that
we've been unsuccessful in prodding our users to upgrade from, so that's
the level I'm most concerned about.
..Paul
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