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 like to have to live with.   Much is the
same, that is true, but the reason there is a migration procedure rather than a
simple note specifying your method is for precisely those two cases.

But I am not expert enough to assess the risk.  I just worry about all the
changes being lost ...

What exactly did you tar/untar?  All of /usr/OV ?  Not only would you lose the
default files in /usr/OV/conf for example, but you would also lose the samples
of the new stuff in /usr/OV/newconfig, so you couldn't even check there to see
if anything was missing or copy in a new copy if something had changed.   And
what about binaries and scripts?  Or was /usr/OV/bin excluded?    When you do
"xnmtrap" can you still add / alter TEC/classes and slot map values?

I'm glad it seems to have worked for you, but I don't see how I could recommend
it.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



"Ken Garst." <KGarst AT GIANTOFMARYLAND DOT COM> on 07/06/99 12:15:52 PM

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Subject:  Re: Urgent Netview Migration Problem





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 install and then did the simple stupid thing
of tarring up all directories and files under NetView 4.1 and just copying them
to the NetView 5.1.1 host and untarring.  Guess what?  This works perfectly.

To be specific I tarred everything in NetView 4.1 under /usr/OV/databases and
untarred this under NetView 5.1.1 and the maps, databases and everything worked
perfectly when the NetView 5.1.1 daemons were started.  I copied over the
trapd.conf under NetView 4.1 to NetView 5.1.1 and saved all my customizations
also.

Do your backups and then try this method.

Regards,
ken
kgarst AT giantofmaryland DOT com