Upgrade Considerations
If you are upgrading from an existing version of Connect:Direct® for UNIX Sterling ConnectDirect for UNIX, observe the following guidelines:
- SNMP is no longer supported. If you are using SNMP and upgrade to this version, other functionality will not be negatively impacted. However, you will no longer receive SNMP messages.
- Change the ownership on the statistics files in your work directory so that these files are
owned by the user who starts the cdpmgr daemon. Use the following command sequence to change the
ownership of the statistics files:
$ su root Password: root_password # cd cddir/work/node # chown user_who_starts_cdpmgr S*.???
The upgrade considerations for installing CDU 4.3 on EC2 are described in section " Prerequisites for activating Connect:Direct Unix on AWS cloud".
The following variable definitions apply:- root_password - Root user's password
- cddir - Directory in which Connect:Direct for UNIX Sterling ConnectDirect for UNIX is installed
- node - Your Connect:Direct Sterling ConnectDirect for UNIX node name
- user_who_starts_cdpmgr - User name of the user who will start the cdpmgr daemon
- If you are upgrading a collection of Connect:Direct for UNIX Sterling ConnectDirect for UNIX nodes in a load-balancing environment, stop all of the nodes before you begin the upgrade. You can restart the nodes after they have been upgraded.