Chapter 5 Upgrading Previous Versions of Sun Management Center on the Solaris Platform

This chapter describes how to upgrade Sun Management Center 3.6.1 software to Sun Management Center 4.0 on a single machine.

This chapter discusses the following topic:

• Upgrade Considerations

If you do not want to migrate your Sun Management Center data, you must uninstall the existing Sun Management Center software before you can install Sun Management Center 4.0. To uninstall existing Sun Management Center software without saving your data, see Appendix A, Uninstalling Sun Management Center

Upgrade Considerations

When upgrading from any previous version of Sun Management Center software, the server and console layers must be upgraded first.

Sun Management Center 4.0 servers and consoles support previous versions of Sun Management Center agents. Consequently, Sun Management Center agents can be upgraded when time or circumstances permit.

All Sun Management Center software components should be upgraded to version 4.0 to take advantage of the improved monitoring and management capabilities provided by Sun Management Center 4.0.

When upgrading an agent or a server, make sure you use the same port number for the agent as you used in the previous installation.

Upgrading the Server

If you have a Sun Management Center 3.6.1 server installation on Solaris 10 11/06, you can upgrade using either one of the following methods.

These methods do not apply to the Solaris 8, 9, and Solaris 10 1/06 and Solaris 10 6/06 server layer installations. Sun Management Center 4.0 server layer is available only on Solaris 10 11/06 and higher versions.

• Run the Sun Management Center 4.0 graphical user interface installation command es-guiinst.

• Run the Sun Management Center 4.0 command-line installation script es-inst.

If you have a Sun Management Center 3.6.x server installation on a Solaris version that is earlier than Solaris 10 11/06, do the following:

• Uninstall Sun Management Center 3.6.x and save the configuration data.

• Upgrade the operating system to Solaris 10 11/06 or Solaris 10 8/07. Follow the server migration procedure described in http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/sunmc_datamigration.pdf to move the data to a Solaris 10 11/06 SPARC or x86 system.

The Sun Management Center 4.0 installation process detects the existing 3.6.x installation and runs the Sun Management Center 3.6.x es-uninst command-line script. The Sun Management Center es-uninst script gives you the option to save your Sun Management Center 3.6.x data.

If you save the Sun Management Center 3.6.x data, the Sun Management Center 4.0 setup process detects the saved data and gives you the option to migrate the data to Sun Management Center 4.0.

To Upgrade From Version 3.6.1 to 4.0

1. Run es-inst from the 4.0 source image.

   The uninstallation wizard is launched. The uninstallation script uninstalls Sun Management Center 3.6.1 and asks whether you want to preserve the data.

2. Type y to preserve the data.

   After uninstallation of the Sun Management Center 3.6.1 components, the new packages for 4.0 are installed. The installer takes you to the setup. The setup process detects the preserved data and asks whether you want to migrate the data.

3. Type y to migrate the data.

   The upgrade procedure is complete.

Database Migration Scenarios

You may have to migrate the database if you are in the following situations:

• Migrating from 3.6.x on Solaris 8 OS, Solaris 9 OS, or Solaris 10 6/06 or earlier version.

• Migrating from 3.6.x on Solaris 8 OS, Solaris 9 OS, or Solaris 10 6/06 or earlier version to Sun Management Center 4.0 x86 server.

To migrate the database, do either one of the following:

1. Apply the data migration patch.

   1. Download the patch from http://www.sunsolve.sun.com.

      Different patch IDs are applicable for different versions of the Solaris operating system. Choose the patch based on the Solaris version of your installation. The patch IDs are as follows:

      • Solaris 8 SPARC: 123920-04

      • Solaris 9 SPARC: 123921-04

      • Solaris 10 SPARC: 123923-04

   2. Untar and then unzip the downloaded patch archive file.

   3. Install the patch using the patchadd command.

2. Uninstall Sun Management Center 3.6.1 and preserve the data.

3. Install Sun Management Center 4.0.

4. Upgrade the operating system to Solaris 10 11/06 or Solaris 10 8/07.

or

1. Apply the database upgrade patch.

2. Follow the server migration procedure described in http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/sunmc_datamigration.pdf to move the data to a Solaris 10 11/06 SPARC or x86 system.

Upgrading Agents

You can upgrade the Sun Management Center 3.6.1 agent to the Sun Management Center 4.0 agent using either of the following methods.

• Create an agent-only installation image on the Sun Management Center server as described in To Create an Agent-Only Installation Image Using es-makeagent. When you have created the agent-only installation image, apply the image to the agent hosts using the es-inst -a command as described in To Install Agents From an Agent-Only Installation Image Using es-inst -a.

• Create an agent-update image using either es-gui-imagetool as described in To Create an Agent-Update Image Using es-gui-imagetool, or by using es-imagetool as described in To Create an Agent-Update Image Using es-imagetool. When you have created the agent-update image, apply the image to the agent hosts using the agent-update.bin executable file as described in To Install or Update Agents From an Agent-Update Image Using agent-update.bin.