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The update process should be planned in advance, to ensure both the full benefit from your v9.6.1 2 system and adherence to your schedules and needs.

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  • All minimum requirements were met before updating to v9.6.12, as per the Precise Minimum Requirements for Installation guide.
  • The Precise installation that is going to be updated 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 v9.6.12.
  • 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 free disk space 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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Your existing Precise installation typically spans many servers. Since the update to Precise v9.6.1 2 is performed per server, you should plan in advance the order in which you will update all servers comprising your existing Precise installation.

If you are not able to update all servers at once, but will update a few servers at a time, take note of the implications described in The implications of a phased update to Precise v9.6.12.

The order of the server update is:

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

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The implications of a phased update to Precise v9.6.

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

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When updating the servers with the Precise FocalPoints, your installed Precise performance monitoring system will not be in operation. Once the Precise Framework update is complete, Precise v9.6.1 2 will resume all performance monitoring previously provided by Precise v9.5.

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The following checklist can be used to verify that you are ready to start performing the update to Precise v9.6.12:

(tick)The Precise Customer Support Portal (https://precise.secure.force.com) was reviewed for a newer version of this document. If there is a newer version, download it and use it instead of this one.
(tick)Minimum requirements for installation were all met prior to updating to v9.6.12.
(tick)The update order of the Precise installation was planned according to The order of the servers update.
(tick)Planning according to this topic was completed.
(tick)The Precise Customer Support Portal (https://precise.secure.force.com) was reviewed for product updates.
(tick)Downtime has been coordinated for the Precise product.

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