Re: LAN Console upgrade

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I was reading a Pete Massiello post on facebook about doing an upgrade via lan console. Can't you do the whole upgrade remotely?

On the side I have someone with a new 520 they just installed to migrate Domino to i from Windows. They are also using lan console. I've got them on 6.1 with latest ptf's. However when it's time to upgrade to the next release I'd like to do that entirely remotely. This is why... After getting some other stuff on it they will be moving it to some concrete bunker like server center where they normally aren't allowed in. Some big names use this facility also. The only people on site are armed guards. We have SNDPTFORD scheduled to run weekly for the cume and all groups. PWRDWNSYS scheduled once a month with a restart.

Backups, well that's a whole other story...

Rob Berendt

I've done several of upgrades remotely at the request of the clients not wanting to pay travel expenses. My biggest concern has been what if I loose connection with the system if I am the console say through a VPN and the Internet. So to cover that base I've used Remote Desktop, VNC on even a Sametime Meeting to control the local PC with the console session. Depending on Internet access speeds and firewall issues at the client, I can either remotely handle FTPing image catalogs of the OS, PTFs etc or assist the client in running the CDs/DVDs for me to build the catalogs.