Upgrade from version 9.00A build 318-281 to version 12

[Meakin_Singh_8715]

Hi,

We are gathering information on upgrade from version 9 to 12

i researched the compatibility tool , it said the OS requirement as red hat enterprise linux 6

our current installation is  on  ed hat enterprise linux  5.5

Can we do in place upgrade ?

or do i need new server with Enterprise linux 6 installed ?

Any one went through the same scenario?

Comments/posts will be highly appreciated

[peter_grundler_automic]

Meakin Singh said:

Hi,

We are gathering information on upgrade from version 9 to 12

i researched the compatibility tool , it said the OS requirement as red hat enterprise linux 6

our current installation is  on  ed hat enterprise linux  5.5

Can we do in place upgrade ?

or do i need new server with Enterprise linux 6 installed ?

Any one went through the same scenario?

Comments/posts will be highly appreciated

Hi Meakin,

I recommend not to try it with RHEL 5.5 even it will work as you don't want to run a probably business critical app on a non-suppprted OS. Furthermore you should consider this: "All versions of Satellite 5.5 and below are EOL on May 29 2015" (https://access.redhat.com/articles/1322933).

You can do an in-place upgrade is there is enough downtime allowed.

regards,

Peter

[Matthias Schelp]

peter_grundler_automic

quick edit. Think you meant RHEL not Red Hat Satellite (the system management tool). RHEL is in extended Lifecycle support till nov 2020. Here's the link:

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

But still RHEL 5.5 ist pretty old fashioned and should be updated to Verion 7 or 6.

[peter_grundler_automic]

Thank you @Matthias,

I picked the wrong line: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 got retired end of March 2017. Extended Life Cycle Support is available for an additional cost until end of November 2020

[Carsten Schmitz]

In case the question aims at the actual OS (that's at least how I read it):

No, you can not upgrade RHEL 5 to RHEL6. Unlike other Linux variants, Red Hat requires you to do a fresh install in order to raise your major version.

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/21964

Best,
Carsten

[Meakin_Singh_8715]

Thank you all , that helped us to get a new VM with RHEL6

can you tell me how to proceed with fresh install ( automic release 12 with oracle DB 12c) and them move my old release 9 objects here .

Is this a valid approach?

[Carsten Schmitz]

My $0.02:

Yes, doing a fresh install and then connecting and upgrading your old database is a feasible approach.

It mostly comes down to making a fresh install "by the book" (including AWI/Tomcat, the new JWP process, and (optionally) Analytics/Postgres), and then updating the database with the db load utility.

You should, however, pay close attention to the individual change notes for all the intermediate releases: there are things that may need to be thought of in your UC4 objects, like changes in the scripting language etc.

So I suggest to start by carefully reading and following the update instructions from 9.x to 10.x, 10.x to 11.0, 11.0 to 11.2 and so forth. And when you do update your database, of course make sure you have backups of the old state, and better yet, work with a copy of the db.

As for any update, perform this in a test environment first, document all your steps, use the test variant for some weeks before finally upgrading production.

Best,
Carsten

[Anon Anon]

Depending if you need the object statistics & reports you could do a fresh AE installation and import just the objects (without any statistics & reports) per transport case as well.

just as one more possibility...