Upgrading An Existing Application Catalog; Organizing Your Application Catalog Using Groups - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Upgrading an Existing Application Catalog

When you attempt to open an AdminStudio 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, or 7.5 Application Catalog in AdminStudio 9.5, you
are prompted to upgrade it to use the AdminStudio 9.5 schema.
Log files for the upgrade are created in the following directory:
AdminStudio Shared Directory\ConflictSolver\Logs
Note • Note the following regarding upgrading an existing Application Catalog:
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The upgrade of AdminStudio 3.0, 3.01, and 3.5 databases is not supported by AdminStudio 7.0 or later.
• Starting with AdminStudio 8.0, Microsoft Access databases are not supported.
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Starting with AdminStudio 9.01, Oracle databases are not supported.
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When an SQL Server Application Catalog database is upgraded, the old tables are not dropped from the
Application Catalog.
Upgrading Pre-AdminStudio 5.0 Application Catalogs
Pre-AdminStudio 5.0 Application Catalogs cannot be upgraded automatically by AdminStudio 7.0 or later.
However, you can upgrade them using the Legacy Upgrade Wizard, a standalone utility that was included with
AdminStudio 7.0 and 7.5. The Legacy Upgrade Wizard utility is installed in the following directory:
C:\Program Files\InstallShield\AdminStudio\7.x\Common\LegacyUpgradeWizard.exe
If you do not have a copy of AdminStudio 7.0 or 7.5 available to you, contact Technical Support.

Organizing Your Application Catalog Using Groups

Within Application Manager and ConflictSolver, you can create groups to organize your products, patches, and OS
Snapshot images in the Application Catalog. This is especially useful for organizing your Application Catalog in
ways consistent with how your company is organized.
For example, you could create a group representing a certain department's base image including the proper
operating system and necessary applications. When you perform conflict analysis on new packages you are
integrating into your environment, you can run only the relevant comparisons—saving you the time it would take to
run the analysis against all packages in the Application Catalog, or the effort of manually determining the set of
packages against which you want to run the analysis each time.
AdminStudio 9.5 User Guide ADS-0950-UG00
Chapter 6: Managing Application Catalog Databases
Managing Application Catalogs
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