Before updating your Precise installation, be sure to review this topic as well as the following topics:
This document describes the update procedure when updating from a Precise v9.5 installation to Precise v9.6.1. Therefore, if you are updating from an earlier Precise installation, see the relevant Upgrade Guide, or if you are installing Precise v9.6.1 on a clean system, see instead the Precise Installation Guide.
About the update to Precise v9.6.1
Updating to Precise v9.6.1 both updates the existing Precise Framework and agents and replaces the previously existing Precise system, while preserving the previously captured monitored data. As a result, the update process involves downtime of the Precise product.
To ensure an efficient and successful update process, verify that you read about and implement the preparations for the update, as they appear in Planning the update.
Once all preparations have been completed, perform the update, as detailed in Performing the update.
Changes in the Precise for Web logic
In version 9.6.1, we have made changes in the Precise for Web logic with regards to the Collector settings. They have been changed from Domain related to Instance and Cluster related.
During the conversion, we analyze per instance the usage of each domain and apply the existing settings based on the results. This may result in the loss of some non-recently used domain settings for that specific instance.
The default parameter settings after the update for all instances & clusters will be "Parameter name only", regardless of the previous definitions.
The maximum amount of entries in the Exceptions table will be 15.
Changes in the Precise for Web configuration
In version 9.6.1, the User defined configuration changed. We no longer support User Defined 1 and User Defined 2. Should you have defined them in the previous version and you want to keep using them, you may need to redefine the User Defined 1 and 2 as User Defined Transaction Name. It is also possible that the definition can no longer be used.
Changes in supported platforms
In version 9.6.1, Precise for Tuxedo is no longer supported. If you start the update process and Precise for Tuxedo is detected, you get the following error message:
You have Precise for Tuxedo configured for the environments below
Uninstall Precise for Tuxedo from the following environments:
Uninstall Precise for Tuxedo in the indicated environments and restart the update or refrain from upgrading to Precise version 9.6.1.