Running SORT (General Questions)
I am preparing to upgrade my environment from 7.6.0.2 to 7.6.1.2. I have never run SORT before and I am sure it is very straight forward, but just to be safe I wanted to check here to make sure that ...
Its perfectly safe to run the data collector from SORT site.
If you're going to upgrade DR first but if possible dont replicate to it (I assume you're using AIR).
See http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO32575 for guidance to run Sort.
Run sort on master and media servers. Its completely safe and will not harm your Netbackup installation in any way.
You don't need to upload the result to sort.symantec.com - a text and xml file will be placed local to see the result.
Remember to update sort regular if you do not have a direct internet connection.
Sort can use a internet proxy by setting the https_proxy variable before running sort.
https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/vcs/6.2/aix/productguides/html/whats_new/ch01s03s01.htm
