Re: Client and server upgrade order - R8.0.1 upgrade

[Bill Layman <blayman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to Amy Hoerle at Common they are working on a fixpack to make 
the index on Names.nsf work. I have not heard if the fixpack is out yet 
maybe someone else on the list will know.

GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "What you refer to is the order I've always done it."
>
> +1
>
> This past Friday I went from R7 to R8.0.1. I installed the new notes 
> client, admin client and designer on my pc Thursday so I had two business 
> days to get familiar with it. Did the upgrade Friday at 7:30 pm. Took two 
> hours to install on a 270. As of Monday morning the users don't detect 
> anything different.
>
> My current version of Scanmail 3.0 did not work. The version included 
> patch 3 build 5316 which says it supports 8.0 (but I'm at 8.0.1 and I 
> haven't had the chance to call them yet). I did un-install it and 
> reinstall it and it did run the SM jobs but nothing in my mail boxes was 
> getting released. SM had a lock on them for some reason so I had to 
> un-install SM entirely to allow mail to go through. We also have a mail 
> relay server which runs anti-virus checking too - so I'm not entirely 
> without protection.
>
> Although Saturday and Sunday I had two PMR's and 16.5 hours invested to 
> get the server stable. Somehow, and this was first detected on 4/3, our 
> domino directory has some corruption somewhere that caused (only twice 
> with R7) domino to crash when updating the names.nsf FT index. But with 
> 8.0.1 it crashed every time it ran the hourly update of the FT index on 
> names.nsf. We were finally able to remove the FTI and the server has been 
> up now for 22 hours. 
>
> Now the question becomes how can I fix the corruption so that I can resume 
> FT indexing on names.nsf without risking server crashes.
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
> Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
> Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
> IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
> The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
> 4235 Secor Road
> Toledo, OH 43623-4299
> Phone 419-479-5535
> gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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