6.1

Administration Guide
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Upgrading Appliances
ThissectiondescribestheupgradingofApplicationDiscoveryManagerversions6.0.xorlaterforphysical
appliancesand6.1.xorlaterforvirtualappliances.
Important Notes
 AllappliancesinyourcurrentenvironmentmustrunADMversion6.0.xorlater.Also,upgradeall
appliancestothesameADMversion.BeforeupgradingtheADM,familiarizeyourselfwith“Overview”
onpage 41.
 Fordistributedsolutions,performtheupgradesinthefollowingorder:
aRemotedatabaseappliance(whereoneexists)
b Collectors
cAggregator
 Repeatthefollowingproceduresforallappliancesandarchitecturesolutions,unlessotherwiseindicated.
Preliminary Procedures
1 Backupyourdataasdescribedin“ProductSupportPackages”onpage 34(performedonAggregatoror
single‐boxapplianceandcollectorsifcustomfingerprintsexists).
2Loginto theapplianceandopenanSSHsessionandtypethefollowingcommandtomonitortheprogress
ofupgrade:
tail -f /var/log/nlayers/update.log
ThisSSHsessionisinadditiontoanyothersessionopenedforthepurposeofupgrading.Theabovescript
alsoprintssuccessorfailuremessagesalongwithotherusefulinformationtostdout.
3PerformallupgradesbyusingtheCLIproceduresasdescribedin“UpgradingAppliancesUsingCLI”on
page 42.
Upgrading Appliances Using CLI
To upgrade all appliances by using CLI
1 Downloadtheupdate_runner.plandInSightUpdate-
version .updfilesfrom
http://downloads.vmware.com/ApplicationDiscoveryManagerinto:
/home/nlayers/rpms/versionX.x/
2 Changefileaccess:
chmod 744 update_runner.pl
3UpgradeVMwareADMservices:
./update_runner.pl -u -f InSightUpdate-version-build .upd
4 Waitfortheupgradetocomplete.Fordistributedsolutions,repeattheupgradeproceduresforall
remainingappliancesasdescribedin“UpgradingAppliances”onpage 42.
5Proceedwith“Post‐UpgradeSteps”onpage 43.
NOTETheupgradeprocesscantakeseveralminutestocomplete.YoucannotaccesstheADMConsole
whiletheupgradeisinprogress.
N
OTEWinApeisupgradedaspartofaggregatorupgradeandyouarenotrequiredtoupgradeit
separately.