WinNT Client Upgrade - Overwrite or Uninstall/Reinstall
Please excuse if this is obvious - several archive searches turned up nothing, and I didn't see a reference in Richard Sims' Quick Facts. Relevant Installation Info: TSM Server 4.1.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 WinNT Clients: TSM Client 4.1.1.0 on Intel NT 4.0 SP5 or SP6 Goal: Upgrade of WinNT TSM Clients from 4.1.1.0 to 4.1.2.12 to handle DST problem before April 1 (avoiding 4.1.1.16 because of potential memory-leak problem (IC28969)) If I install the 4.1.2.12 client over the top of the existing 4.1.1.0 client, then I end up with two 'Tivoli Storage Manager Client' entries in the 'Control Panel-->Add/Remove Programs' (and duplicate entries for the two installed products in the Registry as might be expected). The 'Installing the Clients' manual, Version 4.1, Chapter 4. has a section, 'Reinstalling the Client' , which implies that if you are installing to the same location, you can just install over the top of the previous version with no uninstall required. I want to provide our NT sysadmins a straight-forward procedure for doing this upgrade, and don't know whether to suggest an uninstall-reinstall (ensuring that they have a backup of the dsm.opt and dsmsched.log), or just have them do an install over the top of the existing client (and put the footnote about the duplicate registry entries in the 'Book of Who Cares'.) Any thoughts on best practices? Thanks, Scott Behrens
Re: WinNT Client Upgrade - Overwrite or Uninstall/Reinstall
In cases such as this, it is much more advisable to go the full uninstall-reinstall route (after as you say, backing up the required files). Duplicate entries in the registry under Control Panel, more then once also refer to duplicate entries elswhere, so it's more then just a cosmetic. Where it comes to such stuff, go the long way allways. That's what I do. Mike > -Original Message- > From: Scott Behrens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: ä îøõ 22 2001 15:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WinNT Client Upgrade - Overwrite or Uninstall/Reinstall > > Please excuse if this is obvious - several archive searches turned up > nothing, and I didn't see a reference in Richard Sims' Quick Facts. > > Relevant Installation Info: > TSM Server 4.1.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 >WinNT Clients: TSM Client 4.1.1.0 on Intel NT 4.0 SP5 or SP6 > > Goal: Upgrade of WinNT TSM Clients from 4.1.1.0 to 4.1.2.12 > to handle DST problem before April 1 (avoiding 4.1.1.16 because > of potential memory-leak problem (IC28969)) > > If I install the 4.1.2.12 client over the top of the existing 4.1.1.0 > client, > then I end up with two 'Tivoli Storage Manager Client' entries in the > 'Control Panel-->Add/Remove Programs' (and duplicate entries for the > two installed products in the Registry as might be expected). > > The 'Installing the Clients' manual, Version 4.1, Chapter 4. has a > section, 'Reinstalling the Client' , which implies that if you are > installing > to the same location, you can just install over the top of the previous > version with no uninstall required. I want to provide our NT sysadmins > a straight-forward procedure for doing this upgrade, and don't know > whether to suggest an uninstall-reinstall (ensuring that they have > a backup of the dsm.opt and dsmsched.log), or just have them > do an install over the top of the existing client (and put the footnote > about the duplicate registry entries in the 'Book of Who Cares'.) > Any thoughts on best practices? Thanks, Scott Behrens
Re: WinNT Client Upgrade - Overwrite or Uninstall/Reinstall
For Solaris clients the upgrade method is to uninstall the current version (which leaves the relevant config files intact) then install the new version. I don't know for sure if the NT client is the same, but it seems likely. The Quick Start manual or the README for the new version should describe how to do the upgrade, but failing that, try out the uninstall-reinstall path on a non-critical client, and see how it goes. -Original Message- From: Scott Behrens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WinNT Client Upgrade - Overwrite or Uninstall/Reinstall Please excuse if this is obvious - several archive searches turned up nothing, and I didn't see a reference in Richard Sims' Quick Facts. Relevant Installation Info: TSM Server 4.1.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 WinNT Clients: TSM Client 4.1.1.0 on Intel NT 4.0 SP5 or SP6 Goal: Upgrade of WinNT TSM Clients from 4.1.1.0 to 4.1.2.12 to handle DST problem before April 1 (avoiding 4.1.1.16 because of potential memory-leak problem (IC28969)) If I install the 4.1.2.12 client over the top of the existing 4.1.1.0 client, then I end up with two 'Tivoli Storage Manager Client' entries in the 'Control Panel-->Add/Remove Programs' (and duplicate entries for the two installed products in the Registry as might be expected). The 'Installing the Clients' manual, Version 4.1, Chapter 4. has a section, 'Reinstalling the Client' , which implies that if you are installing to the same location, you can just install over the top of the previous version with no uninstall required. I want to provide our NT sysadmins a straight-forward procedure for doing this upgrade, and don't know whether to suggest an uninstall-reinstall (ensuring that they have a backup of the dsm.opt and dsmsched.log), or just have them do an install over the top of the existing client (and put the footnote about the duplicate registry entries in the 'Book of Who Cares'.) Any thoughts on best practices? Thanks, Scott Behrens
