Concept of different versions between rcvr & base

Folks,

We have just purchased a new SUN production webserver. This server will of course have an OpenDeploy Receiver installation. Our UNIX admins want to build Solaris 10 on it, but as we currently have OD 6.0.1 installed, Solaris 10 is not a certified.

Therefore, I'm just investigating what options I have available to me, and I was wondering about the following "concept":

[As an interim, tactical response - definitely not the preference] Is it valid to have a different version of OD on the Receiver (say 6.1) as to the Base (say 6.0.1)? Would that be actually supported by Interwoven?

My first reaction is that this wouldn't be possible...but I haven't been able to find any indication to the contrary.

Your views, opinions and experiences are appreciated.

Cheers, Craig

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Adam Stoller

Folks,

We have just purchased a new SUN production webserver. This server will of course have an OpenDeploy Receiver installation. Our UNIX admins want to build Solaris 10 on it, but as we currently have OD 6.0.1 installed, Solaris 10 is not a certified.

Therefore, I'm just investigating what options I have available to me, and I was wondering about the following "concept":

[As an interim, tactical response - definitely not the preference] Is it valid to have a different version of OD on the Receiver (say 6.1) as to the Base (say 6.0.1)? Would that be actually supported by Interwoven?

My first reaction is that this wouldn't be possible...but I haven't been able to find any indication to the contrary.

Your views, opinions and experiences are appreciated.

Cheers, Craig

You can check the Support site for an OD compatibility matrix - but generally speaking it's better to have the newer version on the sender side than on the receiver side - but OD has done a pretty good job of being able to talk both downrev and uprev so it might work.

Also - OD's official platform support is not quite the same as TS's platform support. TS does some funky stuff at the kernel level so if it doesn't say it's supported, it probably isn't. OD is generally working at a higher level with TCP/IP and such and so there is a good chance that it will work on Solaris 10 even if not officially supported - and if so, it gives you some time to work on getting everything upgraded on both sides.

slarty

You can check the Support site for an OD compatibility matrix.

Thanks. Interestingly, a quick look at the OpenDeply compatability matrix (http://support.interwoven.com/resources/products/compatibility/opendeploy.asp) shows its compatibility of OpenDeploy with itself (see row# 8). So I guess, having different versions of Base and Receiver is supported.

jed

Folks,

We have just purchased a new SUN production webserver. This server will of course have an OpenDeploy Receiver installation. Our UNIX admins want to build Solaris 10 on it, but as we currently have OD 6.0.1 installed, Solaris 10 is not a certified.

Therefore, I'm just investigating what options I have available to me, and I was wondering about the following "concept":

[As an interim, tactical response - definitely not the preference] Is it valid to have a different version of OD on the Receiver (say 6.1) as to the Base (say 6.0.1)? Would that be actually supported by Interwoven?

My first reaction is that this wouldn't be possible...but I haven't been able to find any indication to the contrary.

Your views, opinions and experiences are appreciated.

Cheers, Craig

For the record, we run OD 6.02 on many Solaris 10 servers. This is not an officially supported platform, but we have not encountered any issues due to our version of Solaris.