Installation guide

Known Issues
52 Software Release Notice
Component Names Still in Japanese after Upgrade
When you upgrade from CA Spectrum Release 9.1J (translated to Japanese) to Release
9.4 (in a Japanese locale), the database migration leaves some component names in
Japanese. This situation occurs because some model names in the Navigation panel
were determined to be specific to the Japanese locale and were therefore translated.
On a new installation in a Japanese locale, you see English names for these models in
OneClick. For a database migration, however, the Japanese names are not removed. You
can ignore the names, which have no impact on functionality.
DDM Upgrade
When the DDM is upgraded, the following messages appear in the DDM log.
error: Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR TABLE `event`" or
dump/reload to fix it!
error: Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR TABLE
`oid_suffix`" or dump/reload to fix it!
These messages are benign. The tables are repaired. You can safely ignore these
messages.
Garbled Characters Appear in Alarms
Symptom:
I have recently upgraded from CA Spectrum r9.2.0 to Release 9.4. Now I see some
strange characters in a few alarms. For example, the German characters that used
umlauts are garbled now.
Solution:
You are running with a fault-tolerant CA Spectrum configuration. Although your
databases were properly converted to use UTF-8 encoding (which supports localization
of the CA Spectrum software), alarms that were generated before or during the upgrade
process were not converted.
You can remedy this situation by taking the required post-upgrade steps that are
described in the Installation Guide. You must run a CA-supplied script to complete the
database conversion. See the section on upgrades in a fault-tolerant environment for
more information.
After the database conversion, all of the old encoded data uses UTF-8 encoding with the
exception of varbind alarm data that is embedded in DDM events. Therefore, a subset of
events continue to display garbled characters for up to 45 days, at which point they will
age out of the DDM.