Upgrading The Zenworks Orchestrator Agents And Clients; Checking The Current Version Of The Orchestrator Agent - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - UPGARDE GUIDE 10-09-2009 Upgrade Manual

14 Run the following command to start the ZENworks Orchestrator and ZENworks Orchestrator
Agent:
/etc/init.d/novell-zosagent start
2.5 Upgrading the ZENworks Orchestrator
Agents and Clients
It is likely that you have installed ZENworks Orchestrator Agents and Orchestrator Clients on
machines other than where the ZENworks Orchestrator Server components were installed. This
section includes information that helps you to walk through the upgrade of those agents and clients.
Section 2.5.1, "Checking the Current Version of the Orchestrator Agent," on page 37
Section 2.5.2, "Backing Up the Orchestrator Agent Prior to Upgrading," on page 38
Section 2.5.3, "Automatically Upgrading the Orchestrate Agent from the Orchestrate
Development Client," on page 38
Section 2.5.4, "Using the Product ISO to Upgrade Agents and Clients on a SLES 10 SP1
Machine," on page 38
Section 2.5.5, "Using the ISO to Upgrade the Orchestrator Agent and Clients on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 Machines," on page 45
Section 2.5.6, "Using the ISO to Upgrade the Orchestrator Agent on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 Machines," on page 46
Section 2.5.7, "Using the ISO to Upgrade the Orchestrator Agent or the Orchestrator Clients on
Windows Machines," on page 47
Section 2.5.8, "Using the Administrator Information Page to Upgrade the Agents and Clients,"
on page 47
NOTE: To perform a mass upgrade of ZENworks Orchestrator Agents we recommend that you use
a reputable application software distribution method to upgrade to the newer versions that ship with
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0. For example, you can use ZENworks Linux Management to distribute
new agents and clients to Linux servers.
For more information, see
Scale," on page 48.

2.5.1 Checking the Current Version of the Orchestrator Agent

Before you upgrade the ZENworks Orchestrator Agent packages from an earlier version to the
current PlateSpin Orchestrate version, you should check which packages of the older Orchestrator
version need to be upgraded and which non-Novell packages are included in the product packages.
To do this, change to the directory where the current version of the Orchestrator
then run the following command:
rpm -qa | grep 'novell-zen'
We recommend that you record the results of this command so that you can compare it with the
results of a similar task following the upgrade (see
Upgrading ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 Components to PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0
Section 2.7, "Running the Upgrade Configuration on an Enterprise
was extracted,
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