Users Guide

Upgrading from OMNM 4.4 to 6.x | Upgrading/Patching from Previous Versions
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c. Note or take screen shots of the following that must be manually recreated after
upgrading:
–Existing User Records and Associated User Group Membership
–Existing Permissions for each User Group
–Any configured, enabled Scheduled Items
–Any Group Operations
–Groups of Adaptive CLIs (for batch execution)
–File Backup Actions
–OpenManage Network Manager Change Management Actions
3 Do a full backup of your database. (See MySQL Backup/Restore on page 154 or refer to your
database’s backup instructions)
4 Optional: Back up the host to which you are installing.
5 Optional (but recommended): stop all running OpenManage Network Manager processes.
6 Perform the 6.x Upgrade Installation (see Upgrading an Existing Installation on page 39 for
more about this). You must run the loaddb -s command line as part of this installation.
7 You may need to look through the portal properties to see the web server is on the correct
address. It defaults to the application server’s IP address, which would be incorrect if web
server is not on that machine. Correct
8 Manually recreate the following in 6.x using its Web Portal:
a. Recreate previous User Groups named exactly the same as they were in 4.4.
NOTE:
As long as you use the same name for new User Groups (Roles) created in the upgrade as existed in
6.1.17, the previously assigned functional permissions associated with each Group are automatically
linked in the upgrade. No need to reassign the functional permissions for each group.
b. Recreate previous Users with proper assigned User Group Membership (Roles) and
Passwords in the Web Portal.
To validate this, test, log in with each of the configured User Logins to ensure they have
the previously assigned permissions.
After upgrading, Users may not initially appear associated to their roles, but you can
work around this apparent failure by clicking Update Associations. This is in the Roles
portion of the Control Panel. Click Actions > Assign Members, then click the Update
Associations button on the following screen. Alternatively, you can go to the Server
Administration portion of the Control Panel and click Execute to Reindex all search
indexes.
c. Recreate File Backup actions against defined group(s) of target devices.
d. Regroup and test ACLI Actions that were previously grouped together as a Task Groups in
4.4.
The task group feature was not supported in 4.4, but 6.x lets you group execution of
tasks in sequence.