SORT 5.0 is available

On Jan 24, 2019, SORT delivered a release with the following features and enhancements.

• Reorganized SORT Navigations and refreshed the landing pages to improve user experience for locating SORT features and capabilities. 
• Added videos about the update of SORT. To start to use SORT, you can watch the videos. More videos about how to use SORT will be published later.
• Enabled the direct access to product landing pages to find out SORT features for each product. You can access it by clicking the product in the navigation 'PRODUCTS' or 'Supported Products' in the landing page.
• Added Latest News in SORT landing page.
• Centralized patches on SORT, including NetBackup hotfixes downloads at NetBackup Hotfix Lookup
• Ease the way to subscribe notifications for documents in Documents 
• Enhanced NBU/NBUA EEB Notification Feature by sending notifications only when the EEB# is valid and has changes.
• Supported Windows Server 2019 for Windows Data Collector and Install&Upgrade Checklists for NetBackup
• Polished NetBackup Operating System Compatibility checker's style to reduce click efforts and  consistent with DB checker.

NetBackup Appliance Release 3.1.2 Important Notice

In recent weeks, Veritas has seen a spike of support cases related to the 3.1.2 upgrade. Although our support teams have been able to get customers back to a working state, the downtime required to fix the issues could exceed many of our customer's expectations. Although many appliances have upgraded successfully, the spikes in upgrade cases are concerning to us. To maintain the integrity of our upgrades, Veritas has pulled the 3.1.2 upgrade to evaluate the root cause of the failures and to fix them before more customers experience the same issues.

The 3.1.2 upgrade RPMs are temporarily unavailable from SORT. The links in this document that lead to the RPM files on SORT are currently disabled. At this time, Veritas cannot provide an ETA as to when the 3.1.2 upgrade RPMs will be available. For more details, please read

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100043606.html

NetBackup Appliance 3.1.2 was generally available on Sep 21

• SORT Installation and Upgrade checklist (http://sort.veritas.com/checklist/install) has been updated to support NetBackup Appliance 3.1.2.

New SORT Release on Sept 17

On Sept 17, 2018, SORT delivered a release with the following features and enhancements.

Highlights:

• Supported All Languages of documents in SORT Documentation
• Updated ‘Appliance Patches’ to display Appliance hotfixes. Visit https://sort.veritas.com/patch_dp/finder.
• Added ‘Supported use cases’ section for Resiliency Platform/CloudMobility in ‘Products and Platforms Lookups’ 
• Show product features of Resiliency Platform/CloudMobility by use cases.

Access 7.4.1 

• Documentation
• End of Support Life
• SORT Data Collectors – License/Deployment Reports

Data Insight 6.1.2

• Documentation
• End of Support Life
• Support Troubleshooting for Data Insight 6.1.2 in Windows Data Collectors

Resiliency Platform / CloudMobility 3.3

• Documentation (Resiliency Platform 3.3; CloudMobility 3.3)
• Products and Platforms Lookups
• Product Features
• End of Support Life

CloudPoint 2.1

• Documentation
• Products and Platforms Lookups
• Product Features
• End of Support Life

 NetBackup 8.1.2 

• Documentation (including NetBackup API – 8.1.2)
•  Installation and Upgrade Checklist
•  SORT Data Collectors
• Products and Platforms Lookups
• End of Support Life
• NetBackup Hot Fix and EEB Release Auditor
• NetBackup Hotfix Lookup
• NetBackup Software Compatibility Checkers Central

Other fixes related to supporting NetBackup:

• WinDC Performance Tuning: Skip getting host ID for NBU family checks to resolve hang issue
• Resolved NBDB check issue
• Resolved the issue -In "product lookup/platform lookup" page, EEB Auditor is single line and doesn't disappear when inputting
• Resolved the issue – Installation & Upgrade checklist - Filter/Collapse doesn't function

NetBackup 8.1.2 was generally available on Sep 17

• NetBackup 8.1.2 was generally available on Sep 17.
• SORT web (http://sort.veritas.com/netbackup) has been updated to support NetBackup 8.1.2.
• Our data collectors have been updated to support NetBackup 8.1.2. Please go to https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors to download them.