So far, we've run across at least one issue. We attempted to convert our own firewall, running 6.305, and discovered that after the import all the Internal network definitions (address, broadcast, and network) were all zeros, and there was no way to edit them to correct the problem. Needless to say, the firewall did not work and we reverted to 6.305. A trouble ticket has been turned in to Astaro.
As a side comment, it is disappointing to see that HTTP and SMTP proxy settings do not carry over in the import. This could present a significant problem for sites running mail servers (where the SMTP proxy has been carefully tweaked over months and years), and also for sites that have finely-tuned HTTP proxies with whitelists and blacklists.
So far, we've run across at least one issue. We attempted to convert our own firewall, running 6.305, and discovered that after the import all the Internal network definitions (address, broadcast, and network) were all zeros, and there was no way to edit them to correct the problem. Needless to say, the firewall did not work and we reverted to 6.305. A trouble ticket has been turned in to Astaro.
As a side comment, it is disappointing to see that HTTP and SMTP proxy settings do not carry over in the import. This could present a significant problem for sites running mail servers (where the SMTP proxy has been carefully tweaked over months and years), and also for sites that have finely-tuned HTTP proxies with whitelists and blacklists.
Definately looks quite imposing to have to redo almost everything. I think that I'll probably skip the conversion altogether and just redo all the settings manually. I'm in the process of page by page taking notes on all settings/screenprinting.
__________________ ACE v8/SCA v9.3
...still have a v5 install disk in a box somewhere.
As a side comment, it is disappointing to see that HTTP and SMTP proxy settings do not carry over in the import. This could present a significant problem for sites running mail servers (where the SMTP proxy has been carefully tweaked over months and years), and also for sites that have finely-tuned HTTP proxies with whitelists and blacklists.
I agree. And even more important (IMO) are the VPN tunnels. We have customers with 20-60 of these things and converting them across by hand will be very painful. We've started selling version 7 by default now since the interface is certainly nicer, however we have advised our version 6 customers to hold off migrating for the moment.
