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Re: OAT 2.20 - Windows Installer problem? [67]

Posted By: Nilesh Ozarkar
Date: Thursday, 12 June 2008, at 1:34 p.m.

oat-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 06/11/2008 08:10:22 PM:

> Hi,
>
> I have just tried to install OAT 2.20 on IDS11.10 machine running on
Windows
> Server 2003 sp2.
>
> It gets to a point in the install where it complains about iconnect
> 2.90 being
> present, saying it can't use it and to uninstall it before trying to run
the
> installer again.
>
> I also have iconnect 3.00 installed but it doesn't try to use that.
> The environment points to version 3.
>
> I need version 2.90 present for the ISM GUI (circa ids7.30) that we run,
as
> the Windows version of IDS has no way to monitor backups! -Not being able
to
> see what your backups are doing is not quickly resolved as it is
apparently a
> "feature request", not a "defect" :-((
> Anyway, this old ism gui product won't run with the later versions of
> iconnect.
>
> Is there a way to run the installer such that it can look for good
> versions of
> iconnect, and ignore the fact there is an old one present?

One way you could try is - uninstall IConnect 2.90 first, then install OAT,
then re-install IConnect 2.90.

>
> Or, does this version of OAT include new functionality to see what state
your
> backups are in (eg. waiting for tape, tape full, error, running,
unmounted,
> etc...)? We use onbar in case it's relevant.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce Stenberg.
>
>
>
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