UCE 1.0 to 1.0.3 upgrade procedure?

Hi Ellen,

I think you may already have this, assuming it's the same Ellen :) , but for everyone else the procedure is pretty much as follows -

1. Backup the SDS first by going into /usr/local/uce/install/ and executing ./backup.sh - !!!!!!!VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!

2. Upgrade the SDS in-place by taking the 1.0.3 tarball, opening it, and running ./ezInstall - select option 1 to Install (it will upgrade in place)

3. During the ezInstall process, UCE will generate brand new agent, console, cli and proxy install packages (will be in /usr/local/uce/install/ too with the date of the upgrade)

4. Next, you'll need to upgrade any CLI's or Consoles you have deployed - this piece is manual - take console-<date>.tar.gz, expand it, and then run "./Install -i" on top of any existing console/cli

5. Expand the new agent-<date>.tar.gz package

6. Open the *new* console, and load the new agent pkgs/rpms into the SDS with the following procedure:

- From the top of the console, select a "channel" (for example you will see a SOLARIS8_SPARC item, etc)

- In the top-middle panel of the console (inventory), select and expand "Local" and then select "Local PKGs" (or Local RPM's for linux channels)

-Right click on "Local PKGs", and drill down in the right-click menu until you see "Add"

-In the file browser, go to /usr/local/uce/install/uce_agent/rpms/ and select the appropriate rpm/pkg, and load into the SDS

-repeat this process for all other channels

7. Close the uce_console

8. Next, we'll open the console in a special "upgrade mode" by executing "uce_console -update_director_mode true"

9. login as "admin"

10. for each "channel" group of systems, select the new version of the agent (1.0.3) and select Install.

11. Repeat step #10 for each channel

12. Once all upgrades are complete, run a few jobs (i.e. installing a patch or sunfreeware in simulate mode to ensure that all downloads, etc are still working)

13. finally, take a 2nd backup with the backup.sh script found in /usr/local/uce/install/

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