Service Pack 5 (8.1.05)

This topic contains information about Service Pack 5 for BMC BladeLogic Server Automation version 8.1. The following sections describe:

  • Updates included in the service pack
  • Problems that are corrected in this service pack (for a list of open issues, see Known-issues-and-workarounds)
  • A basic process for upgrading to the service pack
Warning

Do not upgrade to 8.1 SP5 if you are planning to upgrade to 8.2 SP1 in the near future. Version 8.1 SP5 is not a supported upgrade path for 8.2 SP1.

The topic includes the following sections:

About Service Pack 5

This service pack includes full installers for all components. You can download the service pack files from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) website at http://webapps.bmc.com/epd. The build number for the service pack is 506, and the version number shown on EPD is 8.1.05.

What is in the service pack

This service pack includes the updates and corrected problems described in the following sections:

Upgrading to the service pack

To upgrade to this service pack, complete the tasks described in the following sections.

Review the supported upgrade paths

Click here to see a list of supported upgrade paths.

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Download the files

Click here to see the procedure for obtaining the service pack files.

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Service Pack 5 operating system and installer file name matrix

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Prepare for the upgrade

Click here to review the tasks you should perform prior to upgrade.

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Review upgrade considerations

Click here to review the upgrade considerations.

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Run the service pack installers

Click here for information on running the installers.

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Run database migration

If you are upgrading from a pre-8.1 version, you must run the Data Migration Manager.

You can migrate to BMC Server Automation version 8.1 SP5 only from version 7.6 and later versions. If you are running a version earlier than 7.6, you must first upgrade to version 7.6. See the BMC Server Automation Installation Guidefor version 7.6 for information about upgrading earlier versions.

Click here to see the steps for running the Migration Manager.

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Execute the SQL upgrade scripts

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Upgrade the RSCD agents

See the "Upgrading RSCD agents" topic in the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Installation Guide.

Upgrading custom configuration objects

You must maintain a version match between component templates, BLPackages, jobs, and custom configuration objects and agents.

Click here for more information.

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Additional task for Compliance Content users

When upgrading to version 8.1 SP5, Content installation for all the templates fails with the following error:

There is no conversion for DataType: List [Component Template]

This error shows up in the Appserver logs as the Exception while building content bundle error. To workaround this issue, you must download and execute an SQL script from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) website.

Download the script

After you upgrade to version 8.1 SP5, you must download and execute the 81SP5-DB-Update-Script.sql script, available from the 8.1-SP5-DB-Update.zip file on the EPD website.

Execute the script using one of the following procedures (per platform) or copy and execute the whole script in your SQL IDE, such as Query Analyzer.

For Oracle platforms

  1. Copy the files to a location where you can use sqlplus to access the BMC BladeLogic Oracle schema.
  2. Start sqlplus as the BladeLogic user. For example: sqlplus bladelogicusername/password
  3. At the SQL> prompt type: start 81SP5-DB-Update-Script.sql

For SQL Server platforms

  1. Copy the script to a temporary directory.
  2. Navigate to the temporary directory, and login to the database using sqlcmd
  3. Execute the script by typing:
    sqlcmd -S <bladelogicServer> -U <bladelogicUser> -d <OMdatabase> -i 81SP5-DB-Update-Script.sql -o 81SP5-DB-Update-Script.txt
     where
    bladelogicServer is the name of the server with the BladeLogic database,
    bladelogicUser is the db owner of the BladeLogic database,
    OMdatabase is the name of the BladeLogic database.

 

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