The update process should be planned in advance, to ensure both the full benefit from your v9.6.1 system and adherence to your schedules and needs.
To ensure a quick and efficient update, it is necessary to consider the following criteria before beginning the procedure:
Before planning the update process, verify that:
Your existing Precise installation typically spans many servers. Since the update to Precise v9.6.1 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 v9.6.1 on page 8.
The order of the server update is:
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).
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:
The update process does not require any downtime of the monitored technologies.
The update process involves downtime of the Precise product itself as described below.
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 will resume all performance monitoring previously provided by Precise v9.5.
The time required for updating a server with the Precise FocalPoints may vary depending on the strength of the server with the FocalPoint, the strength of the server where you are using AdminPoint to apply the update, the file transfer speed, the amount of Precise technologies monitored by Precise, and 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 fastest when application of the update is performed using AdminPoint on the Main node server with the Precise FocalPoint, and the update 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 for performance monitoring. When updating another node's servers with a FocalPoint, only that node will not be operable for performance monitoring.
Precise agents will not collect performance data while they are being updated. The time it takes to update a server running Precise agents varies depending on the technology type and the amount 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.
The following checklist can be used to verify that you are ready to start performing the update to Precise v9.6.1:
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| Minimum requirements for installation were all met prior to updating to v9.6.1. |
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