topic Re: Ignite UX 4.1 Upgrade in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite UX 4.1 Upgrade

ddeblance — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:49:30 GMT

I need to upgrade my ignite server from Ignite UX 4.1 to 5.6 for use with the Itanium servers. What is the prcedures in doing this and is there any gotchas I should be aware of?

Thanks,
-D

Re: Ignite UX 4.1 Upgrade

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:51:41 GMT

I always use swremove to remove the old version of Ignite and then swinstall the new version. I haven't ever had any problems with this method.

Re: Ignite UX 4.1 Upgrade

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:53:46 GMT

copy your custom configuration files off before doing the swremove.

To go 4.x to 5.x swremove is mandatory to avoid issues(trust someone who learned the hard way).

SEP

Re: Ignite UX 4.1 Upgrade

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:55:58 GMT

I have done this recently. And as such it is farely straight. Do not keep the older version of ignite. Do a swremove on it.

swlist -l fileset | grep -i ignite
swremove

Do a install using swinstall.

On one of the server I have tried keeping the older version which has created problem for me.
Ignite doesnt overwrite any configuration file which were changed after the installtion or manually. So it's safe.

Also you can have backup of /opt/ignite and /var/opt/ignite in case you need to revert back.

Thanks
Prashant

Re: Ignite UX 4.1 Upgrade

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:58:30 GMT

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/faq.html

refer to this.

Thanks
Prashant