Updating an AE System - Details

This document describes the individual steps that are required to prepare and execute an AE system update.

Preparations

The following preparatory work is required before you can start the actual updating process:

1.

Reading the Release Notes

2.

Last changes in processing

Create a user groupA group of users who have a common profile of rights. A particular object type in the Automation Engine. User groups are an organizing construct to help you better manage users because you can grant user groups access rights the same way that you grant various access rights to a single user. All users in the user group are automatically given those access rights. This makes managing users not only more efficient but also more secure because working with user groups gives you a better overview of what rights are assigned. that explicitly denies everything and assign all users to this groupAn Automation Engine object type that integrates tasks so that they can be processed together.. If the Revision Report is activated in your AE system, the assignment to the user group must be made in the User object because the tab is locked in the user group object in this case.

3.

Preparing the point in time for updating the core components

4.

Updating the UserInterfaces

5.

Maintaining the AE database

These scripts are provided in the directories IMAGE:DB\GENERAL\<version> and IMAGE:DB\<database type>\<version>. The files uc_upd.txt and chngdb.sql are especially important.

6.

Duplicating the AE database

 


Updating the Core Components

The core components are updated during this stage. Your AE system is not available while the database is updated.

1.

Installing the utilities

Example for Windows:

Utility in C:\AUTOMIC\UTILITY\BIN

Database files in C:\AUTOMIC\UTILITY\DB

2.

Installing the Automation Engine and the ServiceManagerA program that facilitates the starts and stops of Automation Engine components.

3.

Installing the Framework Integration (optional)

4.

Updating the UserInterfaces (if they have not yet been updated)

5.

Stopping all clients

6.

Stopping the Automation Engine

7.

Backing up the AE database

8.

Updating the AE database

9.

Starting the Automation Engine and clients

10.

Monitoring the AE system

 


Updating All Other Components

After updating the core components, you can update the remaining AE programs one after the other.

1.

Installing the Agents

2.

Installing the remaining components

3.

Using the new functions

 

See also:

Updating an AE System - Basics

 


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