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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 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 -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]