Table Of Contents - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - UPGARDE GUIDE 10-09-2009 Upgrade Manual

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About This Guide
1 Upgrade Overview
1.1 Basic Functions of the Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2 Compatibility Checking Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.2.1 Behavior Shown by the Orchestrate VM Client When Detecting Incompatibility . . . . 11
1.2.2 Development Client Behavior When Detecting Incompatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3 Configuring the Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 Upgrading ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 Components to PlateSpin Orchestrate
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2.1 Upgrading the ZENworks Orchestrator Server Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.1.1 Checking Out the VMs that Are to be Used in PlateSpin Orchestrate . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1.2 Backing Up the Orchestrator Server Prior to Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1.3 Checking the Current Version of ZENworks Orchestrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1.4 Snapshotting the Existing Server Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1.5 Upgrading the ZENworks Orchestrator Server Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.1.6 Removing Obsolete and Unneeded ZENworks Orchestrator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.1.7 Revising An Outdated, Required .conf File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.1.8 Running Discover on VM Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1.9 Checking the Upgraded Version of the Orchestrate Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1.10 Configuring the Upgraded Server Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.2 Orchestrator Components That Are Not Upgraded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.3 Recovering from a Failed Orchestrator Server Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.3.1 Failure Scenario 1: Error Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.3.2 Failure Scenario 2: Cannot Resolve Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.4 Restoring ZENworks Orchestrator If the Upgrade Fails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.4.1 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.4.2 Rollback Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.5 Upgrading the ZENworks Orchestrator Agents and Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.5.1 Checking the Current Version of the Orchestrator Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.5.2 Backing Up the Orchestrator Agent Prior to Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.5.3 Automatically Upgrading the Orchestrate Agent from the Orchestrate Development
Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.5.4 Using the Product ISO to Upgrade Agents and Clients on a SLES 10 SP1 Machine 38
2.5.5 Using the ISO to Upgrade the Orchestrator Agent and Clients on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.5.6 Using the ISO to Upgrade the Orchestrator Agent on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.5.7 Using the ISO to Upgrade the Orchestrator Agent or the Orchestrator Clients on
Windows Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.5.8 Using the Administrator Information Page to Upgrade the Agents and Clients . . . . . 47
2.6 Upgrading the ZENworks VM Manager Console to PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client. . . . . . . 48
2.7 Running the Upgrade Configuration on an Enterprise Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.8 Upgrading a ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 High Availability Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.8.1 Snapshotting the ZENworks Orchestrator Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.8.2 Enabling Rollback and Backing Up the Server Instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.8.3 Upgrading the ZENworks Orchestrator Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.8.4 Removing Obsolete ZENworks Orchestrator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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