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We’re upgrading 700 users’ Notes clients to R6.5 over the nex few weeks. I’d like to have an automated report on which users have which client version, so that I can reconcile it with our rollout plan.
I’ve seen a hotspot/button that can be mailed to users that will couse them to mail-in a document that can report the client version (among other info). I also know that this can be done “silently”, eg by including some code in the PostOpen event of users’ mailboxes. These two methods would be my second choice, if there are other sources, such as the server(s) logs.
Our servers’ logs are getting (Miscellaneous) entries for users opening & closing sessions, and these entries include client version. Anybody have a pre-fabricated method for gleaning this info from the log?
I’ve dug around the sandbox a little, but not found what I need (i.e. User name and Client Version), so any help would be most appreciated.
Subject: Report the client version?
If you’re clients are 6.x then all the info you need is already stored in their person doc. I believe it’s on the last tab.
Subject: Report the client version?
What version are they at now? and what version is the server at? In 6X, the information is available in the Person docs. The value of the field (ClntBld) will be NULL if they are using a pre ND6 client (or at least it should be), assuming you have upgraded the server at the NAB design first.
Subject: RE: Report the client version?
The version info. in the Person Doc. can’t be trusted. They are not a good indicator of what the client is running. I have upgrade about 200+ users from R6.0x but the changes are not being reflected in the Person Doc. Their must be a way to trigger an upgdate.
To be safe, you should write a postopen script to check the version.
Subject: Make sure the Admin Server in the ACL is R6 also. R5 AdminP ignores this.
Subject: Are you seeing errors generated by the AdminP requests to update the person docs?
Subject: RE: Are you seeing errors generated by the AdminP requests to update the person docs?
First, thanks to all for helping. I’m not seeing errors in AdminP. It’s just that I simply didn’t know that my R6 clients are updating their Person docs. Again, thanks for showing me that.
And the administrative server of my NAB is indeed R6.
I have noticed that indeed, if a user accesses the server from more than one PC, they get multiple entries in the fields named “ClntBld” and “ClntMachine” (among other fields). Now I have to brush up my admittedly weak dev skills to build a view that has a unique row for each of the (sometimes multiple) entries…
Subject: RE: Report the client version?
This is somewhat true. The information is supposed to be updated when the client is upgraded. However if you ever use an id at multiple PC’s the information is not really accurate, also if you use and ID at a PC and that PC is wiped and reloaded it won’t be seen as the same PC so now it can look like the user has 2 PC’s. So keep in mind that the info is there but with caveats. Hopefully they will improve this feature in future releases.