Quantum DATAMGR 3.6.3 User Manual

Release Notes

Product: DataMgr® Version 3.6.3
Operating Systems: IBM® AIX 5.1 and 5.2 (32-bit only)

HP-UX® 11.00 (32-bit and 64-bit)

HP-UX® 11i (11.11) (32-bit and 64-bit) (PA-RISC only)
SGI IRIX® 6.5.16m - 6.5.23m
Sun Solaris™ 8 and 9 (32-bit and 64-bit) (SPARC™ only)

Date: February 2005

Contents

Page Topic

1 Purpose of this Release
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New Features

Compatible Operating Systems
3 Using the DataMgr GUIs
3 Upgrading Your Operating System
4 Known Issues
6 Resolved Issues
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License Requests

Documentation

Purpose of this Release

This release adds several new features and enhancements that extend the capabilities of DataMgr. These
release notes list corrections to problems that were encountered in previous releases of DataMgr. Visit

www.adic.com

for additional information about DataMgr and previous releases.

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New Features

These features and enhancements are new in this release of DataMgr:

•IRIX IP35

• Support for IRIX 6.5.17m

• Support for IRIX 6.5.18m

• Support for IRIX 6.5.19m

• Support for IRIX 6.5.20m

• Support for IRIX 6.5.21m

• Support for IRIX 6.5.22m

• Support for IRIX 6.5.23m

• Support for AIX 5.2

Compatible Operating Systems

DataMgr Version 3.6.3 (and AMASS 5.4) is compatible with the following operating systems:

• IBM AIX versions 5.1 and 5.2 (32-bit only)

• HP UX versions 11.00 and 11.11

• SGI IRIX version 6.5.x

• Sun Solaris versions 8 and 9

Note

Note

DataMgr does not support rcp for Solaris 9.

The same version of DataMgr must be installed on the server and all client
systems.

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Using the DataMgr GUIs

To run the DataMgr GUIs, either the Client xdmfs GUI or the Administrative xdmadm GUI, you must install
one of the X Window applications listed in the following table:

Operating

System

All X11R4 or later Use the standard environment PATH variable.

Solaris SunSoft OpenWindows

X Window Application PATH Environment

Motif Vers ion 1.2 or later Use the standard environment PATH variable.
Common Desktop

Environment Versions 1.02
and 2.0.

Any X window system Set the X- Resource xDir to point to the d irectory that

Version 3.x

LD_LIBRARY_PATH= /usr/openwin/lib:/usr/
dt/lib

contains the xterm command. This can be
accomplished by creating a resource file for aawin.

Or, run the client GUI as follows:

xdmfs -xdir /usr/openwin/bin

Or, run the system administrator GUI as follows:

xdmadm -xdir /usr/openwin/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/openwin/lib

Upgrading Your Operating System

If you are upgrading your operating system in addition to AMASS and DataMgr, perform the upgrades in the
following order:

1 Make a successful backup of your DataMgr BFS database.

CAUTION

2 Make a successful backup of your AMASS file system database and journal by running the

amassbackup -v command.

3 Upgrade the UNIX operating system.
4 Upgrade AMASS.
5 Upgrade DataMgr.

Perform the following steps if you encounter problems installing DataMgr on HPUX. Use the pfs_mount
utility provided by HP to mount the CD ROM drive. Type:

1 pfs_mountd &
2 pfsd &
3 pfs_mount <dev> <mount_point>
4 tar -xmvf <mount_point>/datamanager/platform.TAR
5 pfs_umount <mount_point>

Run the AMASS sysdbchk utility on the AMASS file system database to
make sure there has been no database corruption.

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