Client Upgrade to 7.1 Strategy
I have a question about the different ways to upgrade the NBU client to 7.1 in our Unix environment which uses Zones.
In the spring we upgraded our master server and media servers (all Solaris 10) from 6.5.6 to 7.1. We are now ready to upgrade the clients. I started doing this using the ./update_clients command and found that this worked great on machines that are not in a zone. When I went to do zones I ran into some problems. Talking to our Unix admin here he said that I will have to install it on the global zone first and then each virtual server in the zone. The problem is that we dont backup the global zone we just do the vm's. So there is no client listed on the master server to run the update_clients command against. Is it worth adding the global to NBU just to run the update_clients command? Or is there a better way to do this?
Am I on the right track here? Any advice would be appreciated. One other thing to note is that these zones are all machines running Oracle. I dont know if that makes a difference or not.
Thanks again in advance
Jared