Upgrading Appliances; Important Notes; Preliminary Procedures; Upgrading Appliances Using Cli - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual

Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide

Upgrading Appliances

This section describes the upgrading of Application Discovery Manager versions 6.0.x or later for physical
appliances and 6.1.x or later for virtual appliances.

Important Notes

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All appliances in your current environment must run ADM version 6.0.x or later. Also, upgrade all
appliances to the same ADM version. Before upgrading the ADM, familiarize yourself with "Overview"
on page 41.
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For distributed solutions, perform the upgrades in the following order:
a Remote database appliance (where one exists)
b Collectors
c Aggregator
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Repeat the following procedures for all appliances and architecture solutions, unless otherwise indicated.

Preliminary Procedures

1 Backup your data as described in "Product Support Packages" on page 34 (performed on Aggregator or
Single‐Box appliance and collectors if custom fingerprints exists).
2 Log in to the appliance and open an SSH session and type the following command to monitor the progress
of upgrade:
tail -f /var/log/nlayers/update.log
This SSH session is in addition to any other session opened for the purpose of upgrading. The above script
also prints success or failure messages along with other useful information to stdout.
3 Perform all upgrades by using the CLI procedures as described in "Upgrading Appliances Using CLI" on
page 42.

Upgrading Appliances Using CLI

To upgrade all appliances by using CLI
1 Download the update_runner.pl and InSightUpdate-version.upd files from
http://downloads.vmware.com/Application Discovery Manager into:
/home/nlayers/rpms/versionX.x/
2 Change file access:
chmod 744 update_runner.pl
3 Upgrade VMware ADM services:
./update_runner.pl -u -f InSightUpdate-version-build.upd
4 Wait for the upgrade to complete. For distributed solutions, repeat the upgrade procedures for all
remaining appliances as described in "Upgrading Appliances" on page 42.
N The upgrade process can take several minutes to complete. You cannot access the ADM Console
OTE
while the upgrade is in progress.
5 Proceed with "Post‐Upgrade Steps" on page 43.
N WinApe is upgraded as part of aggregator upgrade and you are not required to upgrade it
OTE
separately.
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