Solved: LMS 4.1 to 4.2 ?

Rajagopal Sivaramakrishnan · ‎05-09-2013

Hi All

I went through the document for 4.2 Prime upgrade:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.2/install/guide/install.html

Is 4.1 to 4.2 a straighforward upgrade ? click click click ? or should we take care , backup the database, restore it etc , for the overall upgrade ?

any pointers here would help.

Regards

Raj

Marvin Rhoads · ‎05-09-2013

The upgrade is straightforward. "click click click" (in the GUI) on Windows or "clackety clackety" (from command line) if you're running the soft appliance

Still, if it's a production server, I'd make sure you have a current backup just in case. that's just a good habit.

If you follow the install guide carefully it should go well. the only tip besides making a backup I give would be to make sure the LMS server is healthy (all processes running as expected) before you start. Upgrading a broken server may result in a "more broken" one.

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Marvin Rhoads · ‎05-09-2013

The upgrade is straightforward. "click click click" (in the GUI) on Windows or "clackety clackety" (from command line) if you're running the soft appliance

Still, if it's a production server, I'd make sure you have a current backup just in case. that's just a good habit.

If you follow the install guide carefully it should go well. the only tip besides making a backup I give would be to make sure the LMS server is healthy (all processes running as expected) before you start. Upgrading a broken server may result in a "more broken" one.

Rajagopal Sivaramakrishnan · ‎05-09-2013

Marvin

Thanks. Ill give it a shot...

One basic question - This is running on a VM, and the server team backs up the whole data to an external storage. Is there a way we can do a manual backup, just incase we need it ? If so, should we backup the whole Prime LMS folder, and is it possible to restore the app with that folder ?

Regards