Creating options files for an upgrade

You must create an options file for each platform or content upgrade that you need to perform. This section provides an overview of the steps to perform when creating options files for server components and BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio upgrades.

Tip

When upgrading from version 7.6.02.06, you can quickly create options files by locating the options files that were created during the previous product installation. Before you can use these files for the upgrade, you must change the install_new property to upgrade_new.
Unless you must change any other properties from the earlier release, the number of options files for an upgrade should match the number of options files created from the installation.
If you cannot locate the options files from earlier installation, use the templates in Sample-platform-options-file-templates.

Before you begin

  • Locate and review options files from the previous release.
  • Review the upgrade worksheets and modify any of the properties that you need to change for the upgrade.
    • When upgrading BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio, use the upgrade worksheets to help gather the properties for this component.

Review Silent-installation-propertiesto ensure that your options file contains any required properties that might be new for this release.

To create options files for a platform component upgrade

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To create options files for a BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio upgrade

  1. Open a text editor to create a new options file.
  2. Copy the sample content from Sample-content-options-file-templates into the new file.

  3. (optional) In the new file, modify the installLocationproperty and specify an existing directory in which to install the component.

    Example

    -P installLocation=c:\Program Files\BMC Software\AO\Studio

  4. For the DEVSTUDIO_INSTALL_TYPE property, specify upgrade_new as the silent installation type.
  5. Modify the remaining properties for the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio upgrade.
  6. Save the file with a name that indicates the purpose of the file.
    For example, you could name the file bao_studio_upgrade.options.

Where to go from here

Use the procedure in Executing-a-silent-upgrade to upgrade the platform.

 

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