I ran into couple issues when upgrading my TSM server from 6.3.1 to 6.3.4. But I have successfully fixed them and upgraded my TSM.
Error 1: Deployment Engine failed to initialize
Cause: this was caused by that I forget to run the ‘de_chghostname’ command after I renamed the TSM server name.
Fix: Run de_chghostname.cmd comand.
Error 2: ‘Connection refused to 127.0.0.1 port 4130’ error in the log
Cause: The connection to 127.0.0.1 port 4130 timed out.
Fix: Create the following batch script to repeatedly connect to the 4130 port. Then run it when upgrading.
:top
call “C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Common\acsi\bin\listIU.cmd”
timeout /T 50
goto top
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