7.0
Table Of Contents
- Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview
- Installing ADM
- Setting Up ADM
- Securing ADM
- Maintenance
- Upgrading ADM
- Migrating to a New Appliance
- Troubleshooting ADM
- Uninstalling ADM
- Time Zones
- ADM API Tutorial
- Index
Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
48 VMware, Inc.
Upgrading Appliances
ThissectiondescribestheupgradingofApplicationDiscoveryManagerversion6.2.xorlaterforvirtual
appliances.
Important Notes
AllappliancesinyourcurrentenvironmentmustrunADMversion6.2.xorlater.Also,upgradeall
appliancestothesameADMversion.BeforeupgradingtheADM,familiarizeyourselfwith“Overview”
onpage 47.
Fordistributedsolutions,performtheupgradesinthefollowingorder:
a Collectors
bAggregator
Repeatthefollowingproceduresforallappliancesandarchitecturesolutions,unlessotherwiseindicated.
Preliminary Procedures
1 Backupyourdataasdescribedin“ProductSupportPackages”onpage 40(performedonAggregatoror
Single‐Boxapplianceandcollectorsifcustomfingerprintsexists).
2Logintotheappliance,openanSSHsession,andrunthefollowingcommandtomonitortheprogressof
theupgrade:
tail -f /var/log/nlayers/update.log
ThisSSHsessionisinadditiontoanyothersessionopenedforthepurposeofupgrading.Thescriptalso
printssuccessorfailuremessagesalongwithotherusefulinformationtostdout.
3PerformallupgradesbyusingtheCLIproceduresasdescribedin“UpgradingAppliancesUsingCLI”on
page 48.
Upgrading Appliances Using CLI
To upgrade Aggregator or Single-Box appliances by using CLI
1Followtheinstallationprocedureofdeployingandconfiguringnewaggregatororsingleboxappliance.
2Restoreyourdatabaseandothersettingsasdescribedin“RestoringanADMEnvironmentbyUsinga
ProductSupportPackage”onpage 42.
To upgrade Collector appliances by using CLI
1 Downloadtheupdate_runner.plandInSightUpdate-version.updfilesfrom
http://downloads.vmware.com/ApplicationDiscoveryManagerinto:
/home/nlayers/rpms
2 Changefileaccess:
chmod 744 update_runner.pl
NOTEADM7.0.0usesonlyaremotedatabase.Youcannotupgradeyoursystemwithoutbackingupyour
data.
NOTEUsetheearliernetworksettingstoconfigurethenewaggregatororsingleboxappliance.Refer
“NetworkSettings”onpage 27.
N
OTEItisrecommendedtocreateadirectorycorrespondingtoversionyouareupgradingtointherpms
directoryanddownloadthefilestothecreateddirectory.Forexample,ifyouareupgradingto6.xversion
createadirectorynamedversion6.x.