Upgrade process overview

This topic provides the information that you need to prepare your environment for the upgrade process. It includes information about supported upgrade paths and instructions for preparing to upgrade the BMC Database Automation (BDA) system.

Important

When you upgrade from earlier versions of BDA, you must upgrade the agents before you upgrade the Manager.

For detailed instructions on upgrading, see Process for upgrading the agents to the latest version of BDA.

Notes

You might not be able to apply older Oracle quarterly patches. You need to use quarterly patches published in October 2016 or later.
Similarly, actions that use the clarity-perl Xerces library for parsing need to be rewritten to make it compatible.
BDA does not support the Xerces parser. We recommend using libxml.

Supported upgrade paths

The following figure illustrates the supported upgrade paths from earlier BDA versions to the current release:

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Manager and agent compatibility

In BMC Database Automation, different versions of the Manager and agents are not supported. Both the Manager and agents need to be on the same version of BMC Database Automation. For example, version 8.9.02 Manager is not compatible with version 8.9.01 agent.

Command Line Tools

If you are using Command Line Tools and upgrading to BDA 8.9, make sure that the Command Line Tools are also upgraded to 8.9. See Upgrading-the-Command-Line-Tools.

Compliance Standards

If you are using BDA Compliance Standards and upgrading to the latest version of BDA, you must download the updated compliance content that is compatible with that version from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) site. Older versions of compliance standards are not compatible with the latest version.

Where to go from here

See Preparing-for-upgrade.