[Casper] Spam: Upgrading Casper

[Dorey, Dustin]

Personal recommendation from what we saw in our environment.    Do not
just run the updates.  Back up your JSS and wipe the server clean, I
prefer to zero the drives but that might just be me.    Do a clean
install of the server, do an install of the Casper Suite 6.1 then
restore your backup.  

We originally upgraded a 10.4 server to 10.5 then upgraded from casper
suite 5 to 6 and ran into a number of issues that JAMF could not
replicate, then we set up a mini environment and tested further there
and found that with clean installs we couldn't replicate the issues
either.    Ended up taking a week to take everything down, Main server,
load balancing server, Distribution points.   We rebuilt them all and
have been much better off for it, other than the GSX integration which
I'm just starting to look into.  Per my previous e-mail.

 

-Dusty-

 

 

Dustin  Dorey

Technology Support Cluster Specialist

ISD 196 Apple Valley, Eagan, Rosemount

dustin.dorey at district196.org

952|423|7971

 

 

 

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[mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Cyrus Vahhaji
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:24 AM
To: Jamf List Serve
Subject: Spam: [Casper] Upgrading Casper

 

I like to upgrade Casper from 5.13 to 6.01. Our JSS server is running on
10.4.11 which I would also like to upgrade at some point. Wanted to see
if any of you on the list has any recommendations on which to upgrade
first based on your experiences? My main objective is to upgrade JSS to
latest version. OS X server is only being used to run JSS and currently
I'm not utilizing any other features. And while on this topic I'm
curious to see if you have a fail over solution if JSS goes down and how
you go about doing this.

Thanx in advance,
Cyrus 

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