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Mixed environment: Sophos 9.5 and 9.7

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Hi Everyone,

I wish to test Sophos 9.7 alongside the existing Sophos 9.5 in my environment. 

Within a virtual test environment, I have added Sophos 9.7 to the Update Manager Software Subscriptions and added this subscription to my existing share and saw that it created a CIDS\S001 directory structure alongside the existing V9.5 CIDS\S000 directory structure, and so appears to keep the Sophos 9.5 and 9.7 libraries separate.

I wanted to check whether that was by design and is expected behaviour before I apply these changes to my real environment.  Will future version increments result in CIDS\S002 and CIDS\S003 structures, and so on?

Best Regards,

Steve

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    Hello Steve,

    Recommended is the "base" subscription (although you can change the contents you can't delete nor rename it) and goes to S000. Usually you should eventually upgrade it to the current product versions.

    Whenever you add a subscription the sequence number is incremented. Repeat -  whenever you add a subscription the sequence number is incremented . Thus the first additional subscription you define gets S001, the second S002 and so on. The number is not reused if you delete the corresponding subscription. So if you decide to drop the 9.7. test subscription and later, when 10.0 (or whatever it is named) is released,  you add another it will get S002.

    Usually you don't have to worry about this as in the updating policies you specify a subscription - not the path. It only becomes a problem if you have two or more independent SUM hierarchies and either you want to "move" clients between them without reinstalling or you want to use the other hierarchy as backup. Both rather arcane topics :smileywink:.

    Christian

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    Hello Steve,

    Recommended is the "base" subscription (although you can change the contents you can't delete nor rename it) and goes to S000. Usually you should eventually upgrade it to the current product versions.

    Whenever you add a subscription the sequence number is incremented. Repeat -  whenever you add a subscription the sequence number is incremented . Thus the first additional subscription you define gets S001, the second S002 and so on. The number is not reused if you delete the corresponding subscription. So if you decide to drop the 9.7. test subscription and later, when 10.0 (or whatever it is named) is released,  you add another it will get S002.

    Usually you don't have to worry about this as in the updating policies you specify a subscription - not the path. It only becomes a problem if you have two or more independent SUM hierarchies and either you want to "move" clients between them without reinstalling or you want to use the other hierarchy as backup. Both rather arcane topics :smileywink:.

    Christian

    :13155
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