I too am looking to upgrade all of my servers from 7.1.7.300, soon. I went through the documents in your link (IBM - one of them 404's). My first concern would be upgrading the offsite replica server. While there is documentation about library manager/client server levels/compatibility (pretty sure need to do LM servers first), does the new forced security require SSL/TLS for server-to-server communications? If I upgrade/update the replica server to 7.1.8, will that kill it's communication with the 5-other 7.1.7.3 servers that aren't talking SSL/TLS?
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Skylar Thompson <skyl...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > There's pretty wide version compatibility between clients and servers; we > didn't go v7 server-side until pretty recently but have been running the v7 > client for a while. IBM has a matrix published here: > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218 > > For basic backups and restores I think you can deviate even more, but > obviously you won't get support. > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 03:14:24PM -0500, Tom Alverson wrote: > > Our TSM storage servers were all upgraded last year to 7.1.7.2 (before > this > > new security update came out). Now I am wondering if I should start > using > > the updated client or not? If the servers stay at 7.1.7.2 for now is > > there any harm in using the newer client? I would have to use 7.1.8.0 on > > anything older than 2012. I saw some email traffic earlier that once you > > use the new authentication mode on a node you can't go back? But it > seems > > that would not be possible until our storage servers get upgraded. > > > > Is there any downside in my case (where the storage servers are still at > > 7.1.7.2) of using the latest client versions in the interim?? Our > current > > standard client versions now are 7.1.6.4 for 2008 and older, and 8.1.0.0 > > (yes the horrible buggy one) on newer servers. > > > > Tom > > -- > -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) > -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator > -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 > -- University of Washington School of Medicine > -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/
