HPUX Insight Mgr 4.0 to 4.2 upgrade

[Records Management]

Here's the problem.

The orginal installation was Insight Mgr 4.0 with ProgreSQL version 7.3.1. It had over 200 devices installed, and was working.

I downloaded the new IM 4.2 upgrade pkg, and read the instructions. They stated that all I need to do was do an swinstall on the new IM software.

That I did, and swinstall also automatically marked the ProgreSQL 7.4.1 database package as a dependency. The packages installed, and then started the configuration section. The IM pkg appeared to progress without a problem until it tried to connect to the existing database. The SQL db would not come up. It was complaining about the data files being in 7.3.1 format which it said were incompatable. Also, the new sql pkg appeared to only partially installed, as an swlist listed both versions.

So, I uninstalled the new sql package, and reinstalled it. That cleared up the swlist, but not the db startup error.

So now, I appear to be close to having the upgrade completed, except that the new db binaries can't work with the existing 7.3.1 db.

So, I'm assuming that the new db package should be able to upgrade the older versiosn files. Otherwise, it sure shouldn't be called an upgrade!

My opther choice is to back everything out back to IM 4.0. But, eventually I'llhave to move forward.

The other choice is to do a fresh install, and then reenter all of the existing configurations. Not something that I really want to do either.

Any ideas or suggestions?