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Upgrade Notes
Part Number 820-2952-10 Page 51
Using the Identity Manager Upgrade Program
This section describes the steps for upgrading Identity Manager using the Identity Manager
installation and upgrade program.
NOTES • A schema change occurs with most major Identity Manager releases. You must
update your schema before upgrading to a new Identity Manager version. To
upgrade to Identity Manager 7.1, run one of following schema upgrade scripts,
depending on the version from which you are upgrading: (ID-15722)
❍ From Identity Manager 6.0, run the appropriate upgradeto71from60
script.
❍ From Identity Manager 7.0, run the appropriate upgradeto71from70
script.
For more information, see the Sun Java
™
System Identity Manager Upgrade.
• In some environments, including on HP-UX, you may be required or prefer to
follow the alternate, manual update procedures. If so, skip to “Upgrading
Manually” on page 54.
• For UNIX environments, make sure that an
install directory exists in one of the
following locations, and that you can write to it:
❍ For Linux/HP-UX: /var/opt/sun/install
❍ For Solaris: /var/sadm/install
• During update, you will need to know the location where your application
server is installed.
• Any previously installed hotfixes will be archived to the following directory:
$WSHOME/patches/HotfixName
• Commands shown in the following steps are specific to a Windows installation
and Tomcat application server. The commands you use may differ depending
on your specific environment.