topic Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11 in Operating System - HP-UX

Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

ATL-Sysadmin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:00:41 GMT

I have an HP model '9000/800/L3000-5x' that I need to upgrade from HP-UX 11.00 to HP-UX 11.11. How can this be accomplished?

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:08:51 GMT

Hi:

In my opinion, a cold-installation always guarantees success. Begin here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6552/5991-6552.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

Peter Godron — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:09:37 GMT

Hi,
please see earlier thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=872720

Most people go for the "cold install" path.

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

Berd — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:19:34 GMT

I have used the update-ux script procedure for a number of boxes, and have not yet hit any issues.

I feel that if you cold-install, yes your O/S will be fine, but you could experience app issues if like I have seen apps installed into the O/S file systems and not segregated.

Regards,
Berd

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

Reshma Malusare — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:25:04 GMT

Hi,
I suggest you go for cold install.. Its always preferable & better.
please check following for installtion which is already suggested above:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6552/5991-6552.pdf

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

Rick Garland — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:49:24 GMT

I have had better luck with the cold install than an upgrade.

Seeing most of the replys are saying cold install, why not go to 11.23? It will run on a PARISC.

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

Luk Vandenbussche — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:50:36 GMT

An upgrade can be succesfull with a good preparation. I have done several upgrades yet.

They were all succesfully

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

ATL-Sysadmin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:08:03 GMT

Thanks to all of you for your information.

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

Sheriff Andy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:47 GMT

1) Make sure you have a very good ignite image on tape. I had to go back because of a failed update-ux.

2) Make sure that the RockRidge patches are in place.

3) Make sure that you have enough space available in your filesystems. The upgrade document goes over how much space is required.

Do you have a lot of time to play with this server, or does this have a small window?

We ran update-ux on 2 N class servers with no issues, and ran update-ux with 2 failed attempts on our L1000, before we had a successful update. It came down to us exporting the RPC_SUPPORTED_NETADDRS=ip:x.x.x.x, then restarting the swagentd daemon.

Re: Upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11

ATL-Sysadmin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:48:21 GMT

I have concluded that doing a cold install is the best solution for me. Thank you for your info.