Yes, those differences do make life difficult, but that said, the local
install of clients (take the CD to the console) should be a lot less
problematic and better documented.
I've spent the best part of a week, about a dozen calls to Veritas Support
(last one nearly 2 hours) to find the best way to upgrade and patch unix
clients - before I roll out to my live machines - the Veritas scripts just
don't work in a non-unix master environment.
Penelope Carr, if you'd like the 2 Support Case IDs for further details for
enhancements, I can give them too you.
Does anyone else have any other experiences? I'm hoping this can be
improved before my next upgrade.
Bob Lawrence
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bakh [mailto:bbakh AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: 02 April 2001 15:41
To: Lawrence, Bob; 'Bob Bakh'; Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
The best way to request an enhancement is to send an e-mail to your sales
rep, they will pass it on to product management.
As for the reason of needing an NT for pushing NT clients and patches, and
needing a UNIX box for UNIX patches and clients, is simply because of the
different security models, on NT we use the user to mount a share copy the
install info there and then run the install.
On UNIX we use rcp to push the files and then rsh to execute the install
script.
until the two start to exhibit the same security protocols it may be a while
till we have one server pushing all the clients.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence, Bob [mailto:bob.lawrence AT tfeurope DOT com]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 3:21 AM
To: 'Bob Bakh'; Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
Sounds like quite a few people are having problems
pushing/installing/upgrading/patching clients that are the other side of the
NT/Unix divide from their master.
I for one would definitely like to see some better functionality (and
documentation!)
Netbackup is supposed to be a cross-platform backup product, it does the
backups pretty well, but the admin can be tricky - you almost need a NT
master for NT clients and a Unix master for Unix clients - hardly cross
platform, in my humble opinion.
Bob, what is the best way to request enhancements?
Bob Lawrence
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Ellis [mailto:Ian.Ellis AT morse DOT com]
Sent: 02 April 2001 10:37
To: 'Bob Bakh'; 'Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]'; Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
Hi Bob,
I'm new to this mailing list, so I hope I'm not out of order emailing you
directly, but I'm in a similar situation to Jason. I have successfully
pushed out the clients, (i.e. selected them all for install) but now I'm
trying to push out the patch and having difficulty establishing how. Any
tips would be greatly appreciated.
Ian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bakh [mailto:bbakh AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: 31 March 2001 00:24
To: 'Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]'; Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
If your logged in as Domain Admin you will have the proper rights to push
out the clients from one NT box. If you are using a local admin account it
won't work.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca] [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:45 AM
To: Veritas BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
Using NetBackup 3.4.1DC, I have a Solaris Master and Media server. I am in
the process of setting up a Windows Admin station for configuration of
Windows clients. I am trying to figure out how to apply patch 645 to Windows
clients running 3.4 (unpatched).
To upgrade the Unix clients, all I had to do was run the update_clients
command. Is there something similar in NT? With the patch itself, I have
tried using the 'Apply to other system' option, but it always fails. I have
almost 70 clients to patch, and would prefer not to have to log onto them
all individually.
Thanks
Jason
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