Ignite Server upgrade after swremove

[lyn10]

Hello,

I wish to upgrade my Ignite server's version of ignite but I don't have enough space so I will do an swremove of the old version of ignite beforehand.
I will save the INDEX , list of depots and instl_adm -d outputs and reapply them if I have to but can anyone else think of any other files I should include?
This server stored Golden Images as well as depots.
Thanks

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom lyn,

Save your configuration files as planned and you should be fine.

If you customized it, save a copy. If you can tar up the /var/opt/ignite and store it on another location.

You should swremove previous versions of Ignite, if you don't the old version sits out there and makes things very messy.

SEP

[Greg Vaidman]

You could try doing your swinstall with the "-x enforce_dsa=false" option. Since you're doing an upgrade, you don't really need all the space the product needs to be free, as most of the files will simply overwrite older versions.

That said, I can't imagine running an Ignite-UX in a disk space situation so low that you can't perform an upgrade. Any new make_net_recovery and/or golden image file would surely be as big or bigger than the Ignite install, so you may be blocking application functionality in a low disk space situation.

[lyn10]

Greg,

It is the /opt which is short of space , not the directories that store the Golden Images or software depots.

Thanks to you and Steven for your replies

[Scot Bean]

Some stuff in /etc may be reset:
- /etc/inetd.conf
- /etc/fstab
- /etc/opt/ignite/*

[Greg Vaidman]

You have a couple of options if you have additional space available:

1) extend /opt. you'll need online JFS to do this without downtime, or you could do this during a scheduled outage.

2) create a new /opt/ignite filesystem to put your new binaries (I'd initially create this under /opt/ignite_new, move over the old files, then unmount and remount at /opt/ignite). this provides two benefits - more storage for IUX and more headroom in /opt.

3) put the binaries in a different filesystem that has space by creating a soft link from /opt/ignite to the new location. You'll have to do a similar cleanup as mentioned in option 2 above.