Upgrading

This section provides information about upgrading the BMC Client Management product on all supported platforms. The platform upgrade sections also contain instructions for performing any necessary pre-installation and post-upgrade procedures.

For BMC Cloud hosted BMC Helix Client Management, patching is undertaken by BMC. For information on the scheduling of such patches, see the BCM Client Management Patch deployment schedule.

Perform the upgrade tasks in the order listed in Upgrade-process-overview.

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Planning

Downloading-the-installation-files

Supported upgrade paths

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If you are upgrading your agents manually, ensure that you always upgrade your master first, and then the agents. An agent cannot communicate with a master that is of an earlier version than the agent.

Important

If you are upgrading from version 20.08 and earlier, ensure that you first upgrade the master, relay, and client to 21.02, 22.4, 24.1 and then only you can upgrade to the 25.1 version.

The installation or upgrade scripts check if the operating system and the current BMC Client Management version is supported by the 25.1 version. So upgrading to the 25.1 version from the unsupported versions of BMC Client Management or unsupported operating systems is no longer possible. For a list of the supported operating systems, see Software-requirements.


Prepare the system

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Upgrade the console and the client agent

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Postupgrade migration and configuration

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