A reply to an old thread, but I've been saving the upgrade ones for a
while now.
 
We just tried an upgrade which failed.  We rolled back ok (backup copies
of a cold /usr/openv) because of time issues, but here's one of the
major symptoms we saw:
 
There are 46 media servers (!) outside of the master.  It appears that
all but one media server that had a REQUIRED_INTERFACE in the bp.conf in
UNIX, or the Windows configuration, displayed the issue where the master
would call it by its IP address and not it's hostname post-upgrade.  The
nbemmcmd output and the GUI would show IPs for those media servers.  No
REQUIRED_INTERFACE in the bp.conf and the hostname remained in that
output.
 
None of these have Netbackup clustered, and thus were not removed (as
Rusty and the upgrade guide says, remove if in cluster).  Has anyone
seen a similar issue where a non-clustered media server, with a
REQUIRED_INTERFACE = IP in the bp.conf, mutates into it's IP
during/after an upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5.1?  nbcc output provided no clue
that this would happen and at this point I don't know if it is a cause
or symptom.
 
I don't know if this contributed to the much larger issue where those
systems not upgraded during this initial effort appeared to be
non-functioning as NBU media servers (and the nbpushdata
-modify_5x_hosts was run last).  Some of the nbemmcmd output would say
"active for disk jobs" when they only owned tape storage units.  
 
Thanks - Greg

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Top man Rusty

 

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To: Clooney, David; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
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I also was a little confused by this, but as long as the NetBackup
install itself is not clustered on any of the servers, then this does
not apply to you.

 

-Rusty

 

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade 5.1 MP6 to 6.5

Hi All

 

I am imminently upgrading a Solaris 8 master server from 5.1 MP6 to 6.5
in preparation for the rest of our environments

 

I have been reading through all the documentation and there are a lot of
references to clustered environments, now I am taking that the
documentation id referring to the master server being clustered.

 

Environment

1 X Master - Solaris 8 - standalone

2 X Media -  windows 2003 - standalone

2 X Media -  windows 2003  - Microsoft clustered.

 

I have checked all vm.conf's across all and made sure there are no
REQUIRED_INTERFACE or MM_SERVER_NAME entries of which there are none.

 

Even though two of the media servers are clustered, can I proceed as
normal as I am just upgrading the master server.

 

If someone could clarify this for me it would be much appreciated

 

Regards

 

Dave

 

 

 

 

 

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