Upgrading multiple Agents

BMC Database Automation (BDA) allows you to upgrade all eligible Agents in a domain at the same time.

BDA Agent media is now part of the Manager artifacts. Installing BDA 2019 Release 02 automatically places Agent media on the Manager at /app/clarity/var/agentupdates/.

Prerequisites

You must have upgraded the Manager to BDA 2019 Release 02.

Upgrading multiple Agents

To upgrade multiple agents of a domain, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the BDA Manager console.

2. In the Context Frame, identify the domains that might have legacy Agents.

   Warning

   Note

   If this is the first time you are upgrading Agents after upgrading to BDA version 20.19.02, all Agents are considered to be legacy Agents.

3. Click to select the domain identified in the previous step.
   Agents that pertain to the selected domain appear under the Content tab.

4. On the Content tab, go to Maintenance and click Upgrade Agents.

   Warning

   Note

   If no Agents are available for upgrade under the selected domain, the following alert is displayed:

   There are no agents available for upgrade under selected domain.
5. On the Job Options panel, click Next.

6. On the Scheduling panel, select a time for the job execution.
   You can choose from the following available values:

   • Now
   • At a future time
   • Every hour
   • Every day
   • Every week
   • On certain days every week
   • Every month

   The default is Now.

7. Click Next.
   Job Options lists candidate Agents that are scheduled to be upgraded. Scheduling displays the schedule that you selected in the previous step.
8. Click Execute Job.
   A new job starts, and a progress bar indicates the job's status. The process upgrades the legacy Agents in parallel but separately shows upgrade activity and a progress indicator for each Agent.

Multi-Manager configuration

If your environment has a Multi-Manager configuration, repeat the steps in Upgrading multiple Agents for all Satellite Managers.

Upgrading only some Agents in a domain

To upgrade some but not all Agents in a domain, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the BDA Manager console.
2. Create a temporary domain.

1. Move the Agents that you do not want to upgrade from the parent domain to the temporary domain.
2. In the parent domain, upgrade its Agents as explained in Upgrading multiple Agents.
3. When the upgrade is complete, move the Agents in the temporary domain back to the parent domain.
4. Delete the temporary domain.