Re: [IUG] Release 2007 - System vs. Staff application

["Sue E Boggs" <boggs at ups dot edu>]

Per the Release Notes you can upgrade to JRE 1.6.0_02 at your
convenience if you are already on JRE 1.5.0. Once you upgrade the server
(and make those few wwwoption changes that are needed right away) you
are set. You do not have to do anything to the client machines until you
are ready to upgrade the JRE.

The memory issue is a big one for us as well. A bunch of our student
workstations (mostly milacq & milcat) don't have 1 G. They are finding
it slow going now so I don't think they'll do okay under 2007 until we
upgrade their memory. That is what will dictate when we can upgrade to
the new Release.

Since you haven't done an upgrade before I'll tell you the way I like to
do it. I run the preparation phase in the afternoon so I can call III
during our normal business hours if needed. That phase can be done while
others are doing their normal work, though I do like to warn them not to
run create lists or global updates or anything else that would be
tasking the system. Then I answer no to the question of whether I want
to continue. This is step 14 in the checklist. I come in the next
morning before the library opens and run the commit phase (which seems
to be called the conversion phase in this release). That way I don't
have to come in quite so early in the morning to do it all in one step
and I can be fore-warned of any problems in the initial step. We run a
full unattended backup every night so I don't have a problem with that
requirement before starting the second phase.

It isn't as big a deal with the new servers but back in the day
(sounding like an old timer) the whole process used to take longer.
According to my notes the second phase of the 2006 upgrade took 20
minutes. With the reindexing of this release it might be a bit longer.

Sue

Sue Boggs
Cataloging & Library Technician
Technical Services
Library
University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner St. #1021
Tacoma, WA 98416-1021
(253) 879-2667
boggs at ups dot edu
 
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> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-
> bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:06 PM
> To: sowder at andrews dot edu; innopac at innopacusers dot org
> Subject: Re: [IUG] Release 2007 - System vs. Staff application
> 
> Hi Steve,
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> Thank you for responding.
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> 
> That's good to know about your situation. And again, just to clarify,
> once we upgrade our server to 2007, I have to load the Millennium
staff
> client (milup160_02.exe + JRE 1.6.0_02) on all the staff PCs - i.e.,
if
> their staff workstation has 2006 (milup150_12.exe file + JRE
1.5.0_12)?
> Or will they still be able to work on the old client (milup150_12.exe)
> until I can upgrade (I'm guessing it's okay per
> http://csdirect.iii.com/downloads/milclient.shtml)? I'm just trying to
> plan out how we upgrade the server and then upgrade the staff
machines,
> i.e., do it all on one day or if I am able to do it on a rolling
basis.
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Alison
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> 
> 
> Alison Pruntel
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Fauquier County Public Library
> 11 Winchester Street
> Warrenton, VA 20186
> 540-349-2770 (voice)
> 540-349-3278 (fax)
> http://library.fauquiercounty.gov
> http://fcpleresources.blogspot.com/
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> Message: 11
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> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:36:11 -0400
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> From: Steve Sowder <sowder at andrews dot edu>
> 
> Subject: Re: [IUG] Release 2007 - System vs. Staff application
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> To: IUG INNOPAC List <innopac at innopacusers dot org>
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> We run our clients on XP with anything from 256M and up. The 256's are
a
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> bit slow but not too bad if it only doing circulation.
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> For Milcat, Milacq you should be ok with 1G.  Of course, more is
better.
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> Steve Sowder                                              Systems
> Librarian
> 
> sowder at andrews dot edu                               Andrews University
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> Pruntel,Alison wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > I've never done an upgrade before and have what is probably a really
> 
> > dumb question. We are a turnkey system. When you upgrade the server
to
> 
> > the latest release (2007), do you have to do all your staff machines
> for
> 
> > the Millennium applications at the same time, i.e., right after?
We're
> 
> > still on XP with the standard 1 Gb of RAM, which sounds like the
bare
> 
> > minimum, so our timing for upgrade is going to depend on when we can
> get
> 
> > those staff machines upgraded (staff run multiple apps). Any advice
on
> 
> > timing?
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> > Thanks,
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> >
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> >
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> > Alison
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > Alison Pruntel
> 
> > Electronic Resources Librarian
> 
> > Fauquier County Public Library
> 
> > 11 Winchester Street
> 
> > Warrenton, VA 20186
> 
> > 540-349-2770 (voice)
> 
> > 540-349-3278 (fax)
> 
> > http://library.fauquiercounty.gov
<http://library.fauquiercounty.gov/>
> 
> 
> > http://fcpleresources.blogspot.com/
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> >
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