If you are upgrading BMC Server Automation using the various component installers, you must run the postmigration file to update BLPackages that refer to old Group Policy Object (GPO) assets.
This topic contains the following sections:
Note
This task is not required if you are upgrading BMC Server Automation using the unified product installer.
Perform upgrade and post-migration activities in the following order. This order of steps ensures that all the Application Server steps are completed first, and that the need for a specific BMC Server Automation Console (RCP client) restart does not interfere with the postmigration script. For more information, see Upgrading using individual component installers.
Note
It is not advisable to have the BMC Server Automation Console and File Server on the same machine.
Warning: Prior to running the postmigration file, review the following Knowledge Article from BMC Customer Support to avoid running out of disk space on the Application Server: When upgrading BMC Server Automation to 8.5.1 Patch 4, 8.6, or 8.7, the postmigration utility fails with "No space left on device"
(Knowledge Article ID: KA421781 )
Navigate to the postmigration file found within the BMC Server Automation installation directory:
(Windows): <installDirectory>\NSH\bin\postmigration(Linux or UNIX): <installDirectory>/NSH/bin/postmigration
If you have upgraded the provisioning server (the Application Server enabled for provisioning), upgrade the components that BMC Server Automation uses in provisioning operating systems to bare metal machines. For more information about this task and other upgrade tasks, see Upgrading using individual component installers.