If you do a backup first, using serversetup then all those customizations
should be preserved when you do the upgrade install. A backup of all user
data (Maintain -> Backup) will preserve everything you have mentioned.
The deal behind all this is that in order to use a RDBMs with NetView for
UNIX you must have the Tivoli RIM. RIM functions like ODBC on Windows. It
provides the interface to the underlying RDBMs so the application program
does not have to be re-compiled for every new release of the RDBMS. But
RIM requires the Tivoli Framework. And RIM has to be there for the
install to succeed. Thus without the Framework you cannot install the
Database Component.
Even if you could force the install without RIM, it would do you no good,
because the code wouldn't run.
If you aren't convinced, then my advice is to get another box and ftp the
backup over there. Then install the Framework and RIM. You are
down-level with 7.1.3 and could use this opportunity to move to 7.1.4.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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[nv-l] NetView Data Base Component install
Hello All,
I'm running NV 7.1.3, FP03, which I installed outside the Framework.
Now I
want to add the database component and have been told it must be installed
via the Framework, on a NetView that was also installed via the Framework.
I've seen some discussion in the Archive about a technique to minimize
this pain; take a backup, uninstall and re-install via Framework as an
upgrade to preserve customizations, etc. There was also some comment
indicating there may be problems with this technique.
Does anyone know if there's a way to add the database component without
totally removing NetView, doing a fresh install and re-doing the
customizations? We've customized traps, maps, built rules and added
function to some pull-downs. I sure would like to take this with us.
Anything that would lessen the effort would be a help.
Thanks.
Chris Six
PJM Interconnection, llc
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