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Mike_3G
Level 3
13 years ago

Hardware and OS refresh for media server

Currently - I have 2 media servers on RHEL 4 running NBU 7.0.1 and I want to do a hardware/OS refresh to Centos 6, followed by NBU upgrade to 7.5.0.3. The master server has already been successfull...
  • Marianne's avatar
    13 years ago

    No need to decommission. 

    I would delete all devices on old servers since all OS device names will be different on new servers.
    Next step will be to deactivate old media servers.

    Shutdown old media servers.

    Install 7.5 followed by 7.5.0.3 on new media servers.
    Ensure devices are visible at OS level.

    Activate media servers on Master.
    Ensure comms with media servers by running 'nbemmcmd -listhosts -verbose'

    Start device config wizard on master, select the 'new' media servers.

    Check STU properties - update if not the same as previous properties.