Upgrading IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor from V6.1 to V6.3 on UNIX

You can upgrade IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor from V6.1 to V6.3 on UNIX.

Read the Release Notes and the Detailed System Requirements to ensure that your hardware and software are compatible with the version to which you are migrating.

Before you upgrade IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor, back up the configuration directory, conf.
Important:
  • If you need to revert your instance to an earlier release, the database administrator must back up the databases.
To upgrade IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor from V6.1 to V6.3 on UNIX:
  1. Close all IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor consoles.
  2. Stop the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor EP.
  3. Wait for 5 minutes and take the following steps to make sure both the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor daemon and Windows service are down:
    1. Run the ps -ef|grep java or ps -ef|grep scc command.
    2. On all processes that are running for IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor run the kill -9 command.
  4. Run the exportConfig.sh script to back up your configuration data.
    Important: Before you start the installer on AIX®, run the slibclean command as root user to unload all object files with load and user counts of 0.
  5. Run the installer and select the existing installation folder as the destination folder. The previous version is uninstalled.
  6. Run configCC.sh.
    Important: Do not reinitialize the database for Production. During the Event Processor Name installation step, you can use only alphanumeric characters to name the event processor. The event processor name must be unique in the database.
  7. Start the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor EP.
  8. Log in to IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor Web Console from one of the supported browser by typing http://<host address>:port or https://<host address>:port.