install_client_files vs update_clients

[somesh_p]

Can anyone explain the difference between install_client_files and update_clients commands?

I noticed that update_clients also installing client packages, if not exist.

Then, why to use both install_client_files and then update_clients.

Is it OK, if I use the update_clients alone for netbackup binary push to clients ???

[RamNagalla]

both are diferent one is to update the existing version and another one is to install the fresh netbackup client

update clients only update the netbackup in the clients if the older version is aleray installed. if the netbackup is not installed in the Client it will fail.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178490

install_client_files to do a fresh install , once the command is ran successfully, need to loing to the client to compleate the installation...

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH15004

[somesh_p]

Whatever you say may be correct. But, I've removed the rpm pacakges on client manually (listed below) and then ran update_clients from master server with -ForceInstall. It re-installed the pacakges back

# rpm -qa | grep -i symcnb
SYMCnbclt-7.5.0.4-4.x86_64
SYMCnbjava-7.5.0.4-4.x86_64
SYMCnbjre-7.5.0.0-0.x86_64

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

correct... since you used the forceinstall it did work...

have a look in below T/N

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH19407

Example 6:

This example is used to install but not run a contingency check of OS and version (typically used for Solaris/SunOS discrepancies when checking the UNAME output).

update_clients -Force_Install (you can also add the -ClientList option)