Configuring The Active Upgrade Process - NEC Express5800/320Fd-LR User Manual

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Configuring the Active Upgrade Process

Configuring the Active Upgrade process involves the following tasks:
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Creating and managing configuration files
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Configuring the IP address for the Upgrade Side
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Selecting disks to upgrade
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Selecting other configuration files to include
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Selecting application services to control
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Selecting Event Viewer log files to back up
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Configuring custom actions
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Providing a description for a configuration file
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Displaying the upgrade summary
Creating and Managing Configuration Files
Configuration files allow you to save upgrade configurations that you can use immediately or in the
future.
If you frequently perform upgrades your system, you can create a configuration file to preserve your
settings so you can perform similar upgrades as often as necessary. If applicable, you can create
multiple configuration files, each with different system settings to prepare the system for a
particular type of system or application software upgrade.
In addition, you can call one or more existing configuration files from the configuration file you are
currently editing, so that the settings from the called files will also apply to the file you are editing.
This is called nesting
The default location for Active Upgrade configuration files is \Program
Files\ftsys\ActiveUpgrade\User Configurations, but you can save a configuration file in any
directory. If you specify a different directory when saving or opening files, the Active Upgrade
Console uses the same user-specified directory (on a per-user basis) the next time you open the file
browser.
IMPORTANT:
You can save a configuration file to any disk – system or data, internal or external. The Active
Upgrade Console automatically copies configuration files to a staging area before begininning the
upgrade to ensure that they are available throughtout the upgrade process.