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1) I installed the 7.21 client on my pc and used the Networker Administrator to manage the server. After upgrading my server to 7.3, can I still use the 7.21 Networker Administrator to manage the new 7.3 server?
2) On the other hand, can I use the new 7.3 Networker Management Console to manage older 7.1.1 and 6.1.4 servers?
Thanks in advance for your time.
2) On the other hand, can I use the new 7.3 Networker Management Console to manage older 7.1.1 and 6.1.4 servers?
Thanks in advance for your time.
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Posted June 16th, 2006 04:00
Does the management console have to be installed on the server or can it be installed on a client? The reason I ask is that I am hesitant to upgrade my server to 7.3 with all the problems I have seen in this forum (it is AIX 5.3).
You also mentioned in an earlier post that I would have to have an earlier version of Java, I have been staying fairly up to date so will that be a problem?415
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Posted June 16th, 2006 04:00
I've used older versions to manage 7.3 servers but as Hrvoje points out there are potential risks so it is more sensible to use the newer GUI for any configuration tasks. Remember even though you are on an older client you can connect to the newer server with your browser as long as you have java installed.
There should be no issues using the new GUI to manage older servers.415
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Posted June 16th, 2006 05:00
I'm fairly certain you would have to install NMC on the server...
I would think the version of java would be quite important; we are just implementing EBA and would not work with versions of java prior to 1.4.2.415
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Posted June 16th, 2006 05:00
There is 7.3.1 since yesterday so when upgrading to 7.3.x that should be the version to consider.
NMC can be installed on any host that has supported OS platform - it doesn't have to be backup server itself.
NMC requires java 1.4.x. It doesn't work (yet) with 1.5 (didn't check if that has changed in 7.3.1). I have 1.4.9 installed for that reason. 1.4.9 and 1.5 can happily coexist (at least on my Windows box that is the case and second application using java 1.5 doesn't care either).415
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Posted July 26th, 2006 09:00
You will have to install Management Console on another server because it is only supported on Windows & Solaris, I heard they were going to port to AIX in the future. I'm still waiting on a couple of known issues to get ported to AIX but 7.3.1 has been better behaved than 7.3
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Posted June 15th, 2006 12:00
You can use nwadmin from host running software prior to 7.3 However, nwadmin will understand only those fields known to version from which it comes. With that in mind I would nor recommend any edit operation on any NSR resource. Monitoring should do, but more than that could be calling for trouble. However, nothing stops you from doing it. Officially EMC support will probably tell you something like that too.
Yes. You can use multiple servers with single NMC and their version doesn't matter.