Upgrading


This section describes the upgrade procedure for BMC AMI Ops Console Management.

Warning

This upgrade procedure will preserve all configuration information from the old version but we still recommend that you use the BMC AMI Ops Console Management web config Saved Configurations feature to create a backup of the current configuration and download it to your PC before doing the upgrade.

Related topics

Getting-started

Planning-and-installing

Pre-requisites for the software upgrade

The following steps are essential before you perform a software upgrade:

  • Read all the relevant documentation relating to this upgrade. For more information, see the Notices topic.

  • Based on your site, make sure that you have fulfilled all system requirements related to this upgrade so that the setup can cope with the application prerequisites.
  • Backup a saved configuration as per your requirement. For more information, see Creating a saved configuration.

Creating a saved configuration 

Perform the following steps to create a saved configuration:

  1. In the BMC AMI Ops Console Management application, login as an administrator.
  2. From the application, navigate to Configurations > General Settings > Saved Configurations. For more information, see Saved-Configurations.
  3. Click + New Configuration File, enter a name and description, then click Create.
    A new saved configuration backup file is listed on the main Saved Configurations page.
  4. Click theoptions button.jpg icon from the Action column. The Download icon is displayed, which you can use to download the selected backup configuration file to your PC in a single compressed zip file.

 

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