Re: Upgrading to 6.5.4

Rob, I just upgraded over the weekend and I posted this on my blog 
(everyone has one...).

Last night I upgraded my production Domino servers to Notes/Domino Release 
6.5.4. I blogged about this release the other day after having upgraded my 
client (and about 20 others) to Notes 6.5.4 and upgrading my cluster and 
archive servers (on iSeries and Linux, respectively). 

I upgraded my Blackberry Domino server (Windows 2000 Server) to 6.5.4. 
This upgrade went without a problem.

Then I upgraded my production mail, application and Lotus Instant 
Messaging servers (all running on a single iSeries) from Domino 6.5.3FP1 
to Domino 6.5.4. The only problem after coming back up was that the IM 
integration with Domino Web Access would not work. I was receiving Domino 
Web Access (DWA) warnings and after restarting the DWA server with IM 
disabled there were no errors logging in. So, I figured there was a 
problem with the DWA/IM configuration from the upgrade. I called Lotus 
support and was informed that I would have to reinstall the IM software. 
Since I keep the current install files on the server, all I did was 
restore the licensed program. After doing so, I restarted the IM server 
and the DWA server with the setting changed to enable IM. The integration 
worked after that with no problems. Now all of our Domino servers have 
been upgraded to the latest release within 1 week´s time.

This was about 10:45 PM EST and the Domino for iSeries technician was 
extremely helpful and called me back within about 10 minutes (I was 
promised a call-back within 2 hours, so I was glad it was really fast). He 
immediately told me that there was a technote discussing the need to 
reinstall the Domino "Companion Products" (like Lotus Team Workplace and 
Lotus IM & Web Conferencing) when upgrading the Domino release. I've never 
had to do this before, but it worked. However, I told him that the release 
notes should state this. The release notes did mention needing a hotfix to 
make Team Workplace 6.5.1 work with Domino 6.5.4, but there was no mention 
of having to do anything for IM.

Regardless, the technician's solution to just reinstall the code (taking 
about 5 minutes) worked. However, while I was on the phone he was unable 
to even find the technote. I asked him to forward that to me when he does 
find it. If it's public I will post a blog link to it.

Oh, the mail server did crash when I brought it up the first time. The 
call stack from the NSD (crash log) showed that it was on the IMAP task. 
So I quickly removed the task from the Notes.ini file and the server 
started up well on it's on. When I reloaded the IMAP task the server 
hasn't crashed since. I'll chalk that up as a little install glitch unless 
it crashes again from IMAP. 

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax
http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/

domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
04/11/2005 02:31:59 PM:

> I plan on upgrading off of our iSeries servers to Domino 6.5.4.  The 
> compatibility chart at:
> 
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/domino6/releasesupport.pdf
> seems a tad dated.
> 
> We also are using LEI, Quickplace and Sametime (or whatever their 
> name-of-the-day's are).
> 
> Also, how do you tell what version of LEI you are running?  Lotus went 
to 
> great lengths to leave out the version in the Help - About this 
database. 
> And DSPSFWRSC only shows you 650 and I'm pretty sure it's 6.5.1 or 
6.5.2.
> 
> I see there is a LEI 6.5.4 and we might as well get that also.
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> Group Dekko Services, LLC
> Dept 01.073
> PO Box 2000
> Dock 108
> 6928N 400E
> Kendallville, IN 46755
> http://www.dekko.com
> 
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