We have a total of 3 servers that are running Webtop 2.1 and we were planning to upgrade to Webtop 2.2. I conducted the first install on our Solaris server named Seville which went rather well and I am very impressed with the speed now however there is one major issue I ran into and now it seems I am not the only one.
I went to install Webtop 2.2 on one of the other 2 servers left and found that I could not due to the reason that the DE (Deployment Engine) uses the users home directory structure for files when it does the install. This was all done as none root by the way.
Because IBM selected to allow this type of function it would seem that anyone using a shared home directory is going to run into issues.
I am wondering if anyone has found a way around this that is manageable?
I did contact support over the issue however their answer did not look promising to me...
"Yes, I agree that it's not the first we've heard of this issue, it is a significant inconvenience and DE L3/development have been previously made aware of it. On their direction, I raised an enhancement request arising from a previous PMR that the DE directories should be written to $TIP_HOME instead of $HOME. The FITS id is MR042709678. You could quote this when raising this with your accounts team."
This really is an issue for us with our network. The big question now is do we wait it out and hope that IBM will correct this issue or do we redesign our network to fit IBM's needs. Not good.
Just wondering if anyone else has ran into this as well.
