Installation guide

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Installation and Configuration
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Chapter 9 Upgrading Your System
Checks Before Performing an Upgrade
Ensure that you check the following before upgrading TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM:
• Installer account - The installer account used to perform an upgrade must
have the appropriate privileges required for that platform. Installer Account
on page 5 describes the installer account you should use when upgrading
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM.
• Installer log file - The location of the upgrade log files. See Installer Log File on
page 5 for details.
• Shutdown the existing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM server that you wish to
upgrade.
• Remove any indexes added to the BPM Database.
If you have added any indexes to your BPM database, these should be
removed before you upgrade. This is because, as part of the upgrade, a new
database schema is supplied that may include new indexes. If the new indexes
have the same name as your original indexes, this could result in duplicate
indexes which, in turn, would adversely effect the performance of TIBCO
ActiveMatrix BPM.
• Optionally, back up your TIBCO Workspace configuration files. See Backup
Procedure for TIBCO Workspace, page 177 for details.
• Back up your system. See Backup and Restore for detailed instructions to back
up your ActiveMatrix BPM system and restore the system from a backup.
To back up your ActiveMatrix BPM system, copy the following to a different
location (possibly on a different machine):
— the machine(s) where TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM has been installed.
—the TIBCO_HOME and CONFIG_HOME directories for the TIBCO
ActiveMatrix BPM installation. If the BPM configuration files are on a
different location, you must back up these files as well.
— the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM database. You must back up all the databases
that contain BRM, EC, WP, PVM, and DE database tables. Refer to the
It is important that you shutdown the existing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM
before upgrading, otherwise the upgrade will fail.
Make sure that the following are in a state where a back-up can be performed.
This means they should be either shutdown or offline, as applicable.