Manual Upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.x to 8.1.x
I'm ended up in a situations where a IBM Spectrum Protect (ISP) server was lock down with limitation who is allowed to login over SSH. The main reason of this is because the server was connected to a Linux based LDAP environment after the installation of ISP was done. So now did we end up in a situation where we not where able to let the local ISP user account couldn't ssh to itself. And because we couldn't ssh even though localhost to our ISP user (let's call it tsminst1). And I guess I'm not alone with this issue so I guess this could be a create blog post for my Spectrum Protect / TSM friends. First of all if you are using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 you most run minimum SLES 11 Service Pack 4. Here is a quick and dirty how to upgrade your SLES 11 to SP4. For more information please go to following link: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7016711 Before you start upgrade anything, make sure you backup the ISP database/volhistory and devic...