Upgrade ignite

[CharliePuyol]

Hello! I have a datacenter full of PA-RISC... I just got an Itanium based server...well, I got an Ignite server that before only managed 11.11 PA-RISC systems... The ignite server version is: C.6.7.79 and I want to upgrade it to the last one, that supports also 11.31. Please, can you help me telling me if I upgrade the version, I will lost the other nodes that were configured??? Please help me urgent!! :S

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

Upgrading is not a problem. A typical upgrade recommends that you remove the old version anyway.

If you are in doubt, create a make_tape_recovery of your Ignite server.

You can then always put things back.

Another option. Install new version on new server, copy /var/opt/ignite/clients and /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives to new server. Check it out. If you like it then get rid of the old server.

This was the way I did my upgrade as I did not know what to expect out of the newer version. Sometimes updates come with bugs.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) back up custom configuration files, especially for Ignite recovery servers.
2) swremove Ignite
3) swinstall the new version

If you leave the old version in place you destroy your configuration.

You have to after step 3 carefully re-introduce your customizations.

If you do this node by node, when you are done you will not lose anything.

SEP

[CharliePuyol]

Mmm...ok, but in this case that i must upgrade, the nodes will be equal???

[CharliePuyol]

Steven, it means, that is not as easy as just: swinstall -s .

And after that all my nodes are equal?

[Tim Nelson]

Not sure what you mean be all nodes will be equal.

Part of the make_net_recovery or a server intiated make_net_recovery is that it automatically checks the Ignite tools version and updates to be equiv rev to the ignite server.

If neccessary remove the tools from the clients. Ignite will auto update them as needed.

[CharliePuyol]

By nodes I mean clients, sorry. But if I make a swinstall of the new version of Ignite on the ignite server, what will happen to all the clients that I already configured?

[Tim Nelson]

The configs are kept in /var/opt/ignite/clients on the Ignite server. This data is left intact . Back it up as mentioned above if you like.

Once you execute make_net_recovery on each node/client after the upgrade the Ignite tools on the clients will get auto updated. If there is any error on the clients simply remove their Ignite tools and run the make_net_recovery again.

If you are overly concerned the do as I mentioned before and install the new version on a different server. Try it out. If you like it then proceed.