I could never get LU to install and actually work. I ended up
just settling on updating each of the clients through the install client
script. It may be a pain the first time, but I set up authentication key access
to speed up direct access from master-to-client.
Now it just takes a few moments to run the script. I run it per
client as I’ve learned in the past that when updating all clients at once
that it introduced errors in some instances.
Dustin D'Amour
Wireless Switch Technician
Plateau Wireless
575.389.4189 - office
575.309.6372 - cell
dustind AT plateautel DOT com
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:10 AM
To: Michitsch, John
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Live Update.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michitsch, John <JMICHITS AT gannett DOT com> wrote:
Is anyone using this to upgrade client agents. All
things I've seen/read are negative about the product. We wasted many
hours trying to get it to work on version 6.5 when it first came out.
6.5.3 is supposed to fix some issues, I don't want to go down the LU road
again without the possibility of success! Anyone have it up and running
successfully?
There are many caveats to getting this going properly and some are severe
enough that we're not able to implement it for us for some of the
clients. We had a lengthy discussion with the developers of the client
deployment packages at the last Symantec Tech Day in December so they're aware
of the restrictions.
One of the biggest gotchas for us is that it's pretty much unusable in a
cluster environment. One of its checks is to see if the client is
actually doing a backup before it tries to upgrade itself. If you have
multiple names for your hosts - and this is the case for close to 100% of the
cluster users - this check can fail and your backup and/or upgrade job will
fail.
In general, the NetBackup support for cluster clients is pretty poor.
Yeah, Symantec has hacked "support" in there but it's simply the case
of not breaking in a cluster but that's about it. LiveUpdate is just
another example of where Symantec's cluster "support" fails to solve
the problems properly.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org