Dear All, Seems a good utility, but hard to configure. It should be simple as Window/Linux update.
1. Schedule a policy on daily/weekly basis and download the required patches/updates from the Symantec website. 2. Send the notification to System Administrator for the new updates. 3. Push the new patches from Master/Media server to clients. 4. Then administrator can decide when he/she want to install the new updates/patches. With Warm Regards =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harpreet Singh Chana Phone : (O) 6895 - 4326 Fax : (O) 6895 - 4991 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Notice The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying or distribution of the message, or any action taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and contact the sender immediately. Thank you. "Clausen, Matt R[EQ]" <Matthew.R.Clause To n...@embarq.com> "'Renee Carlisle'" Sent by: <rcarli...@serverwarecorp.com> veritas-bu-bounce cc s...@mailman.eng.aub "VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu" urn.edu <VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Live 02/13/2009 11:32 Update. PM There is a critical step that’s missing from the IIS Web Server setup for LiveUpdate (and one that took me weeks to get figured out): You need to add a new MIME type of .flg of type application/octet-stream I don’t think you need that for Apache, but not sure. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Renee Carlisle Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:06 PM To: Ed Wilts; Michitsch, John Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Live Update. OK, first rule…forget the documentation Symantec gives you for this process..unfortunately it is not great. Here is what we use to get http going for lu for either Windows or Unix. We have had no problem with it now that we have the process down..and have been able to patch application clusters…so not sure what other people have seen there. Hope this helps: OK, we usually use http. The disk share method is for Windows only and Unix clients can’t get to the patches, which kind of defeats the purpose in my opinion. So, we stick with http…here is the process we use: For unix live update server http access: 1. Pull down patches to lu server/dir, unzip all in same dir (no subdirs for each patch bundle) 2. turn on http on lu server /etc/init.d/apache start (first copy /etc/apache/httpd-example.conf --> httpd.conf) 3. ln -s <liveupdate dir> /var/apache/htdocs/<liveupdate dir name> or where ever www root is, above is default, this setting can be determined from the apach.conf file in /etc/apache/apache.conf 4. install nblu on any /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_nblu when prompted type in: url=http://<liveupdateserver</<liveupdatedir> 5. Create lu policies per normal documentation and go For windows live update server http access: 1. Install IIS, need windows install cd, control panel/add remove programs/windows components/application services/IIS (must go into details at each level to unselect and select components you want for IIS and www) 2. Start www service 3. Launch IIS manager, highlight default web site, right click, new virtual dir. 4. Put all patches in wwwroot\liveupdate (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\create virtual dir in IIS for liveupdate 5. Unzip all in same dir (no subdirs) 6. SET LU_SERVER=http://<luserver>/liveupdate (in installdir/symantec/liveupdate/LU_install.bat, then run it, make sure you have 3 exe's in there with it, LUCheck, LU_Registration LUSetup, all 4 files on NBU windows install cd) **NOTES: keep all dir names and servernames lower case for unix/windows Renee Carlisle ServerWare Coporation From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:10 PM To: Michitsch, John Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Live Update. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michitsch, John <jmich...@gannett.com> wrote: Is anyone using this to upgrade client agents. All things I've seen/read are negative about the product. We wasted many hours trying to get it to work on version 6.5 when it first came out. 6.5.3 is supposed to fix some issues, I don't want to go down the LU road again without the possibility of success! Anyone have it up and running successfully? There are many caveats to getting this going properly and some are severe enough that we're not able to implement it for us for some of the clients. We had a lengthy discussion with the developers of the client deployment packages at the last Symantec Tech Day in December so they're aware of the restrictions. One of the biggest gotchas for us is that it's pretty much unusable in a cluster environment. One of its checks is to see if the client is actually doing a backup before it tries to upgrade itself. If you have multiple names for your hosts - and this is the case for close to 100% of the cluster users - this check can fail and your backup and/or upgrade job will fail. In general, the NetBackup support for cluster clients is pretty poor. Yeah, Symantec has hacked "support" in there but it's simply the case of not breaking in a cluster but that's about it. LiveUpdate is just another example of where Symantec's cluster "support" fails to solve the problems properly. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org_______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ForwardSourceID:NT000C0ECE _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu