Users Guide

Upgrading an Existing Installation | Installing Single-Server Deployment
OMNM 6.5.3 Installation Guide 43
Preparing to Upgrade on Linux
This section summarizes the steps to take to prepare for an OpenManage Network Manager
(OMNM) application upgrade on a Linux system.
Prepare to upgrade your OMNM version on a Linux system as follows.
1 Back up the database to another machine and any other resources that need manual
installation. The backup is stored in the
installPath /backup.sql directory. See Upgrading from
a Previous Version
on page 39 for more specifics.
For example, backup your OMNM MySQL database to another machine or network drive
with the following commands:
mysqldump -a -u root --password=dorado --routines owbusdb > owbusdb.mysql
mysqldump -a -u root --password=dorado owmetadb > owmetadb.mysql
mysqldump -a -u root --password=dorado lportal > lportal.mysql
The password may be different than the default ( dorado ).
2 Upgrade your operating system if needed before upgrading the OMNM application.
Make sure that the Linux upgrade does not include the MySQL database. If it does, remove it
after the upgrade and the import the OMNM MySQL database (see
Importing the OMNM
MySQL Database
on page 44 for instructions).
3 Make sure that you export the system settings if you modified the default settings.
4 Verify that the current installation’s Application server starts without exceptions.
Now you are ready to get started
Running the Installer .
Running the Installer
These instructions assume that you have already backed up your database and other necessary
configurations requiring a manual backup. If you have not already done the backups or prepared
your system for an upgrade, see
Preparing to Upgrade on Linux on page 43 before continuing.
Run the installer as follows.
NOTE:
The installer automatically stops the Application and Web servers during an upgrade.
1
Login as a non-root user, such as synergy.
2 Upload the OMNM package to your home directory, such as /home/synergy.
3 Modify the linux_install.sh and linux_install.bin permissions to allow their execution.
cd version /install
chmod +x linux_install.bin
cd Disk1/InstData
chmod +x linux_install.bin
4 Start the installer:
./linux_install.bin
5 Accept the license agreement to start the upgrade proces1s.
A message that an existing installation was detected and this will be an upgrade. Also noted
are the installed features. Click Enter to continue. Otherwise, enter quit to cancel the
upgrade.