On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:24 AM, De Wit Tom (Consultant) < tom.de.wit@volvo.com> wrote:
Use the 'software install' or 'software upgrade' command to upgrade in
this way, that way you won't get any errors about CIFS being limited, and the 'software upgrade' command adds in a package verification so that you know everything actually downloaded correctly before beginning the actual upgrade.
I completely agree !
As an added plus, it also eliminates pesky permissions problems that could result in weird errors *after* upgrading, when you unpack the exe as a user that doesn't have quite the right permissions in the ETC$ share. I've seen for instance java going horribly wrong in that way.
This is because when running the 'software install' / 'software upgrade' commands, you are sure the commands are run as the local admin on the filer (=root). When using CIFS to place/unpack the files, you usually are performing that action with the permissions of "whoever is currently running explorer.exe", which might be the cause of spending some extra after-office hours, and (most importantly) might cause you to miss dinner @ home.
Actually, I don't quite understand why NetApp still uses this method in their upgrade advisors, IMHO, they have developed far better alternatives by now by way of the 'software *' commands.
Gr,
Nils