Chapter 4: Upgrading The Epicenter Software; Epicenter Software Upgrade Overview - Extreme Networks EPICenter Installation Manual

4 Upgrading the EPICenter Software
This chapter describes how to upgrade the EPICenter software. It contains the following sections:
EPICenter Software Upgrade Overview on page 33
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Installing a Service Pack Release on page 34
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EPICenter Software Upgrade Overview

The EPICenter software is available in the following forms. You can select which one to install based on
the circumstances under which you want to upgrade:
Base installation release. To upgrade to a new major software release, such as from EPICenter 6.0 to
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EPICenter 7.1, you can just install the new version of the software, either from the installation CD or
by downloading the software from the Extreme Networks web site.
As long as you install into a different directory, the two versions can co-exist. Further, if you upgrade
to EPICenter 7.1 from EPICenter 6.0 or 7.0, you can migrate the contents of your old database during
the installation process. Your old database is left intact and can still be used with the older version of
the EPICenter software.
See "Installing the EPICenter Server" on page 13
Service Pack release. Service Packs are minor releases that may add new features to EPICenter, as
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well as provide fixes for known problems from previous releases. A Service Pack release is made
available as a patch that can be installed over an existing EPICenter installation.
If you already have the EPICenter software installed on your system when a Service Pack is released,
you can upgrade the software by installing the patch bundle for the Service Pack; you do not need to
reinstall the full product. See
to do this.
If you do not already have the EPICenter software installed on your system, to install the Service
Pack, you must first install the base EPICenter release, then install the patch bundle for the Service
Pack.
Table 2 summarizes the options for installing and upgrading EPICenter.
Table 2: EPICenter Installation and Upgrade Options
Release Type Contents
Base EPICenter Major EPICenter
Installation software release
(6.0, 7.1)
Service Pack New features and
software fixes
EPICenter Installation and Upgrade Guide
for instructions.
"Installing a Service Pack Release" on page 34
Available Formats
• EPICenter installation CD
• Large file downloadable
from the Extreme
Networks web site
• Smaller file that installs
on top of an existing
EPICenter installation and
integrates the Service
Pack features and fixes
into the existing
installation.
for information on how
When to Install How to Install
You want to perform a See
fresh EPICenter EPICenter Server"
installation/upgrade to a on page 13
new major release.
You have EPICenter 7.1 See
already installed and you Service Pack
want to install the Release" on page 34
Service Pack features
and fixes.
"Installing the
"Installing a
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