Just completed an upgrade from SRSS 4.1 + SRWC 2.2 to SRS 5.2 + SRWC 2.3 on RHEL 5.4. To say the least, it did not go smoothly. What is usually about an hour on Solaris servers took 8 hours on RHEL 5.4 do to a comedy of errors/problems. So I have the following questions:
(1) I know changing the hostname is definitely not a recommended procedure, but I can't see why you would not be able to change the IP address of the server. However, nothing we did would convince SRSS that the server had a new IP address. The admin BUI was especially impacted. Any thoughts? (2) How DOES one determine if the installed version of GDM is appropriate. I assume there is some form of the rpm command to give output similar to pkginfo? This of course is a RHEL/Linux question, but it cost us some time trying to figure it out, so I thought I'd ask. In the end we stuck with the installed version rather than install the version in the release. Is this a bad thing? Is the version in the release customized for SRSS? If so, what do we do now? can we go back an install the released version or do we need to start completely over (NOT!). (3) Following a successful utinstall,is a complete run of utconfig, that is, without options, required? harmful? really dumb? OR do you just need utconfig -w to reconfigure the admin BUI with the location of Tomcat? I did a "complete" utconfig, without options, which complained about port 1660/1661 being in use which I completely understand but did not expect. We go around it, but I don't see that you should really encounter that problem so I suspect we did not want utconfig without options. (4) Same question as (3) but regarding utconfig -k. (5) We did out own preservation of the Data Store contents by putting the output of utuser/utdesktop/utresadm -o into files and reloading them later. I was under the impression that utconfig would preserve these for us, but out skepticism paid off since we wound up with an empty Data Store. We were able to recover of course, but I would like to understand where we went wrong. Is this a result of (3)?? (6) RFE: a pre-upgrade script that inspects the current installation and spells out exactly what needs to be upgraded in the OS and current SRSS installation prior to the SRS upgrade. I have not encountered these problems in past upgrades. Is there something fundementally different with SRS 5.2? Aside from what is in the Release Notes that is. Thanks! Art
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