I upgraded last night, and see this message now. Any news from NetApp?

Simon

-----Original Message----- From: Paul Caron [mailto:caron@sig.com] Sent: 03 October 2002 17:10 To: DFinn@studentadvantage.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: upgrading the ONTAP version

We were in a similar situation with a clustered pair of F740 filers running ONTAP 5.3.4R2. They are now running ONTAP 6.2.1D11. The steps I always follow are:

1) Upgrade filer firmware to latest rev.

2) Upgrade ONTAP version

3) Upgrade disk firmware to latest rev. Note that the disk firmware upgrades MAY have to come before the ONTAP version upgrade. There are a few field alerts about the types of disks that fall into this category on the NOW site. Also, the newer versions of ONTAP will handle the disk firmware upgrade automagically, unless you have clustered filers.

The install is not very difficult. The best approach is to just follow the upgrade steps posted on the NOW site. So far, they have always been accurate. There is a set of upgrade steps posted with each version of ONTAP. Also, I have never had a problem with license carry-over.

I believe that the latest system board firmware rev. you want is 2.8_a2 (also posted on the NOW site).

The only weirdness I've seen since the upgrade is the following CIFS audit messages:

[toaster: registry_control:notice]: Restarting CIFS auditing with new buffer size. [toaster: registry_control:warning]: option cifs.audit.membufsize: Value (4096) is out of range (10240 to 262144), using 65536 instead.

I'm still trying to figure out what's causing this. The cifs.audit.membufsize option is actually set to 65536 on both of the filers. Also, I've turned CIFS auditing off. However, it mysteriously turns itself back on every hour. Strange, but it hasn't caused any problems that I've found yet.

From: Daniel Finn DFinn@studentadvantage.com To: "'toasters@mathworks.com'" toasters@mathworks.com Subject: upgrading the ONTAP version Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:29:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0

we have a F740 running an older version of ONTAP, version 5.3.5R2. The

rest

of our netapps run 6.1.3. What would I need to do in order to bring this netapp up to date? I think I can get my hands on the floppy disks. How hard is the install? Do all the licenses carry over? Also, the firmware release below, 2.3._a2, can/should that be upgraded also?

   NetApp Release 5.3.5R2: Tue Mar 28 15:48:22 PST 2000
   System ID: 0016791464 (na4m-be)
   slot 0: System Board (NetApp System Board V N0)
           Model Name:         F740
           Serial Number:      221290
           Firmware release:   2.3_a2
           Memory Size:        512 MB

Thanks Dan