Application Upgrade of ACS 5.4 Manifest?

[Gustavo Novais]

Hello,

I'm trying to upgrade my ACS 5.3 (patch 7) to ACS 5.4 and I've downloaded the application bundle from Cisco.

I'm transferring the app bundle via FTP towards the VM containing ACS, yet I ALWAYS get %Manifest File not found in bundle.

I've opened the bundle and  found the manifest .xml inside.

I've double verified MD5 checks, size files, re-downloaded everything, even copied it to the local disk of the appliance. Also browsed through this forum to see that there are people having the same problem with other ACS version upgrades and besides re-downloading and using FTP there isn't a specific solution.

I'm always getting this error.

I know that it must be possible to do upgrade, but I'm stuck. Does anybody have any insight on this?

I do see on the FTP server logs that the file gets transferred, but as pretty much as soon as it finishes transferring (not enough time in my view to extract a 1.2 GB file) I get an error

I'm doing the:

application upgrade ACS_5.4.0.46.tar.gz FTP

(...)

%Manifest file not found in the bundle

If anybody can provide its experience...

Thanks

Gustavo

[Gustavo Novais]

Hi,

Yes my setup was just what you described.
i've since been able to use the upgrade bundles in client installations running full 500 gb of disk space and had no problem whatsoever. As jrabinow states, release notes/install guide says upgrades will only be done when having 500gb, so I guess there's no way out of this... Unless you backup, install from scratch 5.4, and restore as described on acs installation guide.
On another hand I agree that the error message is definitely misleading - Manifest file not found - just looks like something is wrong in the process. A message "upgraded unsupported due to..." would definitely be more coherent.

Hope this helps

Gustavo


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[munoz.ajj]

If you read the provided TXT file for the 5.3v7 patch, at the very bottom you'll see something that may be a bug in the ACS software......

The command that the read-me file shows for the patch installation reads:

acs patch install 5-3-0-40-7.tar.gpg repository

If you look at the posts on the internet related to this problem as well as the documentaiton, there isn't a reference to using this command syntax.....

everyone on the web shows to use either:

patch install

OR:

application upgrade

...........

after running the following command, I was finally able to get the patch installed (and most likely the upgrade to take affect).....

acs patch install repository

I hope this helps.

[bkuhn]

"acs patch install 5-3-0-40-8.tar.gpg repository upgrade"

This helped tremdously. Thanks