How to upgrade Ignite

[Charles Holland]

If I have an ingnite server, and all my other systems run make_net_recovery to it, what is the process to go from 5.4.50 to 6.1.144 on all servers.

Do I have to uninstall and then install, and re-setup my OS depot. Or can I simply swinstall the 6.1.144 version and everything be ok.

Thanks

[Fred Ruffet]

swinstall alone should be OK.
Make a recovery tape on each server after upgrade.

Regards,

Fred

[Bart Paulusse]

Hi Charles,

it's like Fred said.
swinstall on the ignite server.

First thing Ignite does when making a net_recovery is updating the recovery software on the client.

So after the swinstall simply create a new net_recovery for all your systems.

Bart

[Patrick Wallek]

I ALWAYS swremove the old version and then swinstall the new version. Once or twice I have just done a swinstall and I have had problems with program version conflicts.

The swremove should not effect your OS depot.

[Steven E. Protter]

I did not always swremove the old Ignite and got into trouble several times, ending up with multiple versions installed.

Follow Patrick's guidelines and make sure you make copies of important configuration files such as INDEX so you don't have to configure your Ignite Server from scratch.

SEP

[Charles Holland]

Patrick - Were you talking about doing swinstall on the server only *or* the server and all the clients?

Bart - Upgrade the server, and when you do the first make_net_recovery on the client the new software will be downloaded and upgraded to the client? What will show up if I do a swlist?

Regards.

[Patrick Wallek]

We don't use make_net_recovery here, so I really can't comment on how an upgrade would effect the clients. It *should* automatically install the new software on the clients.

[Charles Holland]

SEP - OK if I follow Pete's advice and upgrade the ignite server, saving the INDEX file, when I run the first make_net_recovery from the client "the new software will be downloaded and upgraded to the client? What will show up if I do a swlist?"

[Rick Garland]

Do an swremove on the older Ignite version.

Then do an swinstall on the newer Ignite version.

[Rick Garland]

When I install the newer version on top of the older version, I have seen the swlist show 2 versions of Ignite being installed.

This is why I remove the older Ignite package first.

Then I can swlist and verify that the Ignite is gone.

Then I can swinstall.

If I install the newer version and then swremove the older version, both versions have gone away.