How to upgrade Networker client versions on multiple clients

Such is not possible as each backup server has its own databases (incl. their SW repositories).

And before you do this, first go and prepare your clients as follows:

  -  Add the new NW server(s) to the servers file (/nsr/res/servers)

  -  Restart the NW daemons at the client to make him read the new file

If you want a graphical interface to support you/to use nsrpush, go to the NetWorker Admin screen and select the Hosts window. Then follow the steps:

  - Create the Software Repository and add the client software version(s) you want to distribute

       You better upgrade your server to 9.2.x to because you can add here also the software from the other OS family without

       first copying it to an appropriate client (Unix to Windows, for example).

  - Run the Software Inventory for your clients

  - From the Known Hosts window, select the clients to upgrade and execute the process

Of course, the NetWorker manuals contain more detailed info.

The situation is that all our Networker 8.2 clients are on different datazone running with 8.2 Server.

We built a brand new  NW 9.2 server and we want to move over all those clients to new Nw server.

so I wan curious if there are any custom tools or methods that we can push the code upgrade from a centralized location

has any one know of a procedure that is more like a scirpted format to remotely upgrade  NW client software  ?

nsrpush functionality can be used to update client version remotely. Before

any client upgrade first we should add software repository using NMC.

NMC>Hosts>Software Repository> Right Click select Add to Repository. This

process will create Repository location on Networker Server. Extract the

networker software and add it to the repository . Then run inventory.

Networker admin guide has more details

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:11 PM, new2prog

Yeah I am considering NSRPUSH as one of the option but the problem is , first we need to  bulk import all the clients.

So I am looking a easy way how to move all the clients in one shot from old  networker server to new one.

also we have this error when we try configure the nsrpush using HOSTS tab on NMC

"nable to connect to Client Push daemon" working with support on this.

Even 9.1.x supports addition of software repository on cross-platforms skipping the need for a proxy host as it was in earlier versions.

NSRPUSH is very hard to push, you will have to take multiple restart of nsrcpd if using GUI. go with CLI with allowing at least 30 seconds of sleep time between two nsrpush operations.

Doing inventory for client mentioned in list.log(Unix machine)

while read line; do nsrrpcinfo -p $line; nsrpush -i $line;sleep 60; done < /nsr/scripts/list.log

Pushing NetWorker client to all the machines mentioned in list.log

while read line;do nsrpush -u -p NetWorker -v 9.1.1.5 $line >> /nsr/scripts/final.out; nsrrpcinfo -p $line;sleep 30; done < /nsr/scripts/list.log

For doing bulk import I would suggest using nsradmin to export client attributes in a file and then create clients on the new server using the same file.

You can use nsrpush or there are multiple tools which you can use , I like puppet or chef to do so, you can use SSMS as well.

There is a detailed document available for NSRPush, which I found somewhere may be some months ago, have a look,

https://community.emc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/38-84347/NetWorker%20Software%20Distribution%20Functionality%20(NSRPUSH)_.pdf