Users Guide

Upgrading OMNM 5.x | Upgrading/Patching from Previous Versions

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e. Recreate Scheduled Items, taking into account any new actions configured for items

above.

f. Review previously Scheduled Items that appear in the upgraded installation. Recreate any

missing Scheduled items to ensure proper visibility and execution of the associated

scheduled activity.

Review / augment and retest Adaptive CLIs that had negate commands previously tied to

them (both positive and negative/error use cases). Ensure these require no negate scripts.

NOTE:

Negate scripts are typically not used/needed for Juniper JUNOS devices because of the JunOS's

transaction control and semantics.

Test any custom Adaptive CLI Scripts migrated from 4.4 on your updated installation.

Create a Production Upgrade Plan to follow once Lab upgrade testing is successfully

completed.

Port Issue

When upgrading from an earlier version 4.4 in a Windows environment, you may have to handle a

port issue. In early version 6 OpenManage Network Manager, the default application server port

was 80; later the default was changed to 8089. During web portal installation by itself, the installer

asks for the application server port. This screen defaults to 8089. The installing user must verify

that their original application server installation is running on port 8089; and if not enter the

appropriate port number your previous installation uses.

You can also change this after installing by updating the

portal-ext.properties

file located

in directory

oware/synergy/tomcat-7.0.40/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes

Upgrading OMNM 5.x

To enhance performance, OMNM 5.x includes a 64-bit application with 64-bit JDK and MySQL.

Except for Windows, where you can still install and upgrade 32-bit versions, other operating

systems support 64-bit only for fresh installations.

NOTE:

If you upgrade from one version of OpenManage Network Manager to another, make sure you clear your

browser’s cache if you have difficulties seeing the upgraded version.

Best practice is to re-index after upgrading. To re-index go to Control Panel > Server Administration and

then click on the Reindex all search indexes. This panel is visible to administrators only, and contains

helpful information about the server.