We just upgraded our SnapCenter server to 6.1P1, and of cause there was one SQL Server sunning Windows 2012R2 which isn't supported on the 6.1P1 agent, so the upgrade fails.. of cause it does not roll back to the previous version of the agent which would have been nice... Now we just need to hunt down a 6.0 og 5.0 version of the agent, and they are typically located in the IIS Web path, but apparently not in 6.1 ? Any hints as to how tp get the old agent packages so that we can install it on the host manually?
#Easy way to get older SC Agents?
neat hearth
...just found out that SC 6.1 (and possibly also 6.0) moved the packages to C:\Programdata\NetApp\SnapCenter\Package Repository..... but only the latest versions...
silent temple
Thank you for the heads up!
Hopefully there's an easier solution than to deploy a VM , install SnapCenter 5 and copy the package from there 😅
neat hearth
Well that's what we ended up doing.. but it gets worse... apparently NetApp added a Message Queue service in 6.1 (maybe 6.0) which is installed on the hosts... and even with the 5.0 agent installed we are unable to start backups because it tries to contact this message queue that is not there... strange because I am pretty sure that we were able to backup old 5.0 hosts with no issues... I guess this specific server have had it's configuration changed as part of the upgrade, so it tries to communicate to the message queueing.. thanksully it seems this is not an active SQL Host.. it's an old system destine to be decommisioned soon... yet it seems to be very important that one verifies the dependencies before upgrading 😉