6.2

Application Discovery Manager 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 43.
 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 36(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 44.
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
2 Changefileaccess:
chmod 744 update_runner.pl
3UpgradeVMwareADMservices:
./update_runner.pl -u -f InSightUpdate-version-build.upd
NOTEItisrecommendedtocreateadirectorycorrespondingtoversionyouareupgradingtointherpms
directoryanddownloadthefilestothecreateddirectory.Forexample,ifyouareupgradingto6.xversion
createadirectorynamedversion6.x.