Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Hey everyone,

I noticed that it has been a few weeks now and no one has posted their setup on NS7 yet.  Any one have any tricks or tips they wanted to share?  From what I have gathered, we have determined that .NET can not be 3.5 SP1 or SP2.  The technical data says .NET 3.5 although the client management suite page on symantec's site lists .NET 3.0.  What version are my fellow admins running?

Also, is anyone using these methods anymore?

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/tuning-microsoft-net-speed-notification-server

I am also wondering if .Net 3.5 can have the SP installed (even SP1 ?) for the NS7 install

The Symantec Installation Manager will install .Net 3.5, however SP1 (or SP2, I didn't even know that was out yet), is not supported, and in many cases will prevent the application from functioning. In particular, the Symantec Installation Manager has been shown to prevent the download and install of other solutions.

The .NET 3.5 SP1 (and I assume SP2, which I didn't even see had been released) will cause SIM to fail during the install in my experience.  In one case on my test NS it got to about 95% complete with the core "Platform" install (which BTW seems to be the preferred way to install NS7/CMS/SMS; i.e. install the management platform first, then add Solutions in a second go-round once you verify successful installation) then failed and rolled back the entire install.  Once again I find myself wondering why, if this is a known issue, the SIM "readiness checks" don't check for and complain about .NET 3.5 SP1/2 being installed.

I was just going coming to post this.  Any tricks or tips?  Any insight or bewares?

I'm actually going to be upgrading both my NS servers, which seems to be what they recommend.  Any insight??

Hi, is it true that the service packs can be installed after the Symantec Installer and everything will
continue to work OK ?

Ok, I upgraded one dev server that has literally only one client on it.  I got some sort of error message halfway through, clicked ok and the upgrade came to a standstill.  I had to terminate from Task Manager, tried running upgrade again and would not let me.  Tried repairing 6 from Control Panel and got error that an install was already running.  Rebooted server, repaired 6, ran 7 upgrade again which seemed to go through no problems except for the fact that it detected that it had nothing to migrate, I believe this was because it had already migrated info during the last install.   Looking at new console now is beyond foreign to me.  This is going to be a lot more work than I thought.

SP1 or SP2 breaks the ability for the product to run properly. I would not install either of them, as they are not supported by Altiris\Symantec.

I upgraded from NS 6 to NS 7 - then uninstalled due to a server error.  Now when trying to get my server back to NS 7 using the SIM, I get an error stating that the install could not continue because the web service is not availalbe at http://localhost:80.

Has anyone had this problem...  All I want to do is install NS 7, PC Anywhere etc....

Server OS, etc. The SIM does have log files as well, and they should be in the SIM install directory. Obviously, I would check on the status of IIS as well.