The odd things that trip me up in my daily work

I just got done patching our GroupWise system - now all on Linux boxes - with the hot patch for GW 8.0.1. I love the new process! Way easier than in the past and the helpful installer even tells you what else needs to be patched. Way cool!

So, for those of you who haven't done it yet, here's a brief step-by-step - this is for Linux installs only (doesn't matter if it's OES2-Linux or plain old SLES as we have both and it worked the same).

1. Down all your agents just to be on the safe side (and it's fun to give users downtime)

2. Extract the files from the tar file you downloaded

3. Open a terminal window, change to the folder where you just extracted everything to

4. Launch the installer - ./install

5. Do the primary domain first, so click on the "Create or update a GroupWise System". You don't "have" to do it this way, but at least you know you'll be updating your SDD properly. Do the same for any secondary domains you may have that also host a SDD. Otherwise, you can simply update the secondary domains similar to the any secondary POAs.

6. If, like us, you have more than one POA and they're running on separate servers, go to each POA, extract the files from the tar or use a CD where you've done that already, run the installer and select Install Products | Install Agents. If you have a C1 install, it will automatically note that you need the Adminstration files updated and do it for you. Pretty cool!

7. To update your WebAccess agent, unpack the tar, launch the installer select Install Products | Install WebAccess. It picks up that you need both the agent and the application updated, as well as any Administration or agent (i.e. MTA) files that you may need.

8. Restart all your domains and POAs.

9. Use the web consoles to verify that you are at build 8.0.1HP89145. (For POA's it's port 7181, MTAs port 7100, GWIAs port 7125, WebAccess 7211 - if you're usin the defaults).

Hope this helps some!