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The update process should be planned Plan the upgrade process in advance , to ensure both the full benefit from your v9.6.2 system the latest Precise release and adherence to your schedules and needs.

To ensure a quick and efficient update, it is necessary to consider upgrade, review the following criteria sub-topics before beginning the procedure:

• Prerequisites for the update
• The order of the servers update
• Downtime of the monitored technologies
• Downtime of the Precise product
• Update planning checklist

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Prerequisites for the

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upgrade

Before planning the update upgrade process, verify that:

• All Your system meets all minimum requirements were met before updating to v9.6.2, the latest version as per the Precise Minimum Requirements for Installation guideminimum requirements for installation.
• The Precise installation that is going to be updated you want to upgrade is fully updated to v9.5. If it still has agents that were not yet updated to v9.5, complete the update to v9.5 prior to starting to update to v9.6.2.upgraded to the required previous version. If some agents are not yet upgraded to the required previous version , complete the upgrade to that version prior to attempting to upgrade to the latest version.
• Free disk space exists on the servers where the required previous version is installed. Minimum requirements include:
  • 0.5 GB on each server containing
  There is free disk space on the servers that have Precise v9.5 installed, as follows:
  • 0.5GB on each server with Precise Agents
  • 2.5 GB on the Precise Framework server
• There is 0.5GB 5 GB free disk space exists on the client server that the update will be executed from.
• You do not have Precise for Tuxedo in your environment.

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• from which you want to execute the upgrade.
• Ensure that the processes running from the precise directory be excluded from anti-virus checks so that locked file errors are eliminated.

Server upgrade order

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Your existing Precise installation typically spans many servers. Since Because the update upgrade to Precise v9.6.2 the latest version of Precise is performed per server, you should plan in advance the order in which you will update upgrade all servers comprising your existing Precise installation.

If you are not able unable to update upgrade all servers at once, but will update the same time and are updating only a few servers at a time, take note of the implications described in The once, review the implications of a phased update to Precise v9.6.2.upgrade described below.

The order of the server update upgrade is:

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1. Upgrade all FocalPoint servers

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1. Upgrade all other servers

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When starting the updateupgrade, you must select all the FocalPoints servers. You can add additional servers for the update later (upgrade once the FocalPoints servers are updated), upgraded or as part of the FocalPoint update (in this upgrade. In which case the server update will start upgrade starts once the FocalPoint servers are completely updated)upgraded.

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Implications

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of a phased

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upgrade to

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the latest version of Precise

If you are not updating unable to upgrade all servers at once, but the same time and are updating only a few servers at a timeonce, the following limitations will apply to your Precise system functionality:

• After starting an update has started, a server that has not fully completed the update cannot have instances installed, edited, or uninstalledupgrade, you cannot install, edit, or uninstall instances on a server until the upgrade is complete.
• For installed Web and J2EE Clustersclusters, new instances will are not be installed until the cluster's servers are updatedupgraded.
• If you have created a Template Listener as part of you server’s server's image, new Template Listener installations will fail after the updateupgrade. You must recreate the Template Listener once the framework update has been completed.

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• upgrade is complete.

Downtime of the monitored technologies

The update upgrade process does not require any downtime of the monitored technologies.

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Downtime of the Precise product

The update upgrade process involves downtime of the Precise product itself as described below.

FocalPoints

When updating the servers with the Precise FocalPoints, your the installed Precise performance monitoring system will is not be in operation. Once the Precise Framework update upgrade is complete, Precise v9.6.2 will resume resumes all performance monitoring previously provided by Precise v9.5the previous version of Precise.

The time required for updating a server with the Precise FocalPoints may vary depending on:

• the strength of the server with the FocalPoint

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• the strength of the server where you are using AdminPoint to apply the

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• upgrade
• the file transfer speed

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• the amount of Precise technologies monitored by Precise

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• the time it takes to perform post-application action items

. In general, updating a server with a Precise FocalPoint is estimated at one hour. Updating a server with a FocalPoint will be is fastest when application of the update upgrade is performed using AdminPoint on the Main node server with the Precise FocalPoint, and the update upgrade is located on storage providing good response time to that server.

If you have a federated Precise deployment, then when updating the servers with the FocalPoint of the Main node, your entire Precise federated deployment will not be operable is inoperable for performance monitoring. When updating another node's servers with a FocalPoint, only that node will not be operable is inoperable for performance monitoring.

Non-FocalPoint agents

Precise agents will do not collect performance data while they are being updatedduring an upgrade. The time it takes required to update upgrade a server running Precise agents varies depending on the technology type and the amount number of Precise agents on that server, as well as the factors described above regarding updating the server with the Precise FocalPoints. In general, updating a Precise agents server is estimated at 20 minutes.

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Upgrade planning checklist

The Use the following checklist can be used to verify that you are ready to start performing the update to Precise v9.6.2upgrade Precise to the latest version:

The

Review the Precise Customer Support Portal (https://

precise

idera.secure.force.com

) was reviewed for a newer

/precise/) for the appropriate wiki for the latest version of this

document. If there is a newer version, download it and use it instead of this one

information. Always use the most recent version of upgrade documentation when available.

Minimum

Verify the minimum requirements for installation

were all

are met prior to updating to

v9.6.2.

the latest version.

The update order of

Plan the Precise

installation was planned

upgrade order according to

The order of the servers update

Server update order previously discussed.

Planning

Complete all planning according to this topic

was completed

.

The

Review the Precise Customer Support Portal (https://

precise

idera.secure.force.com/precise/)

was reviewed

for the appropriate product

updates

upgrades.

Downtime has been coordinated for the Precise product.

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