We are running on 2 NSM's version 4.2.2.4 with a database of 38 gig,.We have not seen any problems so far. The eca needs to be applied on a later time.
Peter At 15:20 20-06-2002 -0400, you wrote: >We are currently testing version 4.2.2.2. Of course this is done on a very >small basis so its hard to bump in to these problems. My production db is >18gb. Should I wait >until this is solved before leaving version 4.1.3 which has been very good >to me the past year and a half? > >When you talk abour corruption, what kind was it. I have some ANR9999D >messages that pop up here and there and support has told me to do an audit >db. This is very hard to >schedule in my environnement since we have oracle, db2 and notes >apllications logging all through the day. I must say that Beat Largo's >message has made me more confident >about the duration of an audit. I might be able to squeeze it in an 8 hour >window. > >Guillaume Gilbert >CGI Canada > > > > >"Jolliff, Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 2002-06-20 14:10:07 > >Veuillez répondre à "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Envoyé par : "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Pour : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc : >Objet : Re: NSM Upgrade Experience > >The corruption was in the DB before the upgrade. >There is a bad lock contention problem when running expiration with >4.2.2.0-4. >(4.2.2.4 did mitigate the problem some but didn't solve it) > >We had symptoms prior to the upgrade, since the upgrade to 4.2.2 we have >been crashing on a regular basis. > >I just shipped off a core dump, activity log and output from a lot of show >commands this morning to level 2 that showed an expiration process hanging >and the scheduler manager crashing. > > >It's not pretty, and I wouldn't go there if I didn't have to. > >Again, YMMV - I may just be one unlucky S.O.B. > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Shamim, Rizwan (London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:12 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience > > >Dale, > >Thanks for the info. > >The majority of the work will be completed by the CE under the NSM agreement >but I was told there will need to be some housekeeping tasks that we need to >do anyway. We'll be prepared for that and make sure that everything is >checked and documented. > >What sort of problems did you encounter with the database corruption? Our >TSM databases are between 70 and 110GB so database corruption is somewhat of >a concern to us. > >Regards > >Rizwan > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jolliff, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: NSM Upgrade Experience > > >Our NSM support contract calls for a CE onsite to do all upgrades of that >nature. >We went directly to 4.2.20 and AIX 5.1 with EC 17. > >Aside from that, immediately after the upgrade, apply OS patch 5100-02 >immediately. >It's a big one, 600+ MB. From the looks of it, it affects almost every >fileset in the OS. >It fixes some duplicate IP address errors you'll see in errpt. > >After than, double check your NIC settings - if you do not do >auto-negotiation on the link, you'll need to reset it. > >If I had it to do over again, I think I would stay with something earlier >than 4.2.2 - there are some serious locking issues that some corruption in >our DB has made almost unbearable for us. > >YMMV, of course. > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Shamim, Rizwan (London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:00 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: NSM Upgrade Experience > > >Hello, > >Is there anyone out there that has upgraded their NSM's to TSM version >4.2.1.9? > >The upgrade procedure will also include an AIX upgrade to 5.1 (currently >4.3.3). As the NSM's are black boxes the upgrade involves a mksysb restore >(upgrade) and customisation to be carried out by ourselves. In total the >outage is approximately 9 hours. > >I'd like to hear from anyone who has attempted this. > >Regards > > > ________________________________ > Rizwan Shamim > Central Backup Service (CBS) > Merrill Lynch Europe PLC > Tel: 020 7995 1176 > Mobile: 0787 625 8246 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
