Re: Upgrading OEM

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:25:47 +0200
Message-ID: <4adf602f$0$83250$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>



Chuck schreef:
> hpuxrac wrote:
>
>> If you google around for "grid control upgrade 10.2.0.5" there's a
>> bunch of stuff written.
>>
>> It looks like a long complicated bug infested undertaking from a quick
>> look.
>>

>
> That's been my impression too. The few folks I've spoken to who went
> through the upgrade all said the same. One the one hand I'd like to do
> an in-place upgrade because if it works I could be done in an hour or
> two. On the other hand if my experience follows that of others I've read
> about I could hit lots of snags and have all my DB monitoring down for
> an extended period. Potentially days.
>
> Even though it's much more work I'm leaning towards installing a
> completely new OMS and repository on a new host and migrating each agent
> one at a time. It buys me the confidence of knowing that I'm still
> monitoring all my targets througout the migration, but I will undoubetly
> lose any historical metric data from the original repository, and will
> have hundreds of firewall rules that potentially need updating.
>

Tried the upgrade on AIX (64bit). After several attempts, SR's, consultants etc. installed a new repository.

Shakespeare. Received on Wed Oct 21 2009 - 14:25:47 CDT

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