Upgrades

Note: Only the Connect:Direct installer packages/files downloaded from Fix Central will be recognized by Control Center Director. Installer files downloaded from Passport Advantage will not be recognized by Control Center Director.
Following steps show the actions you can perform in Jobs section:
  1. Schedule a maintenance job (Upgrade) or an Emergency Restore job.
    1. Click Upgrades > All Jobs > Deploy Job to schedule an upgrade (job).
    2. Select Maintenance Job from the Job Type drop-down menu to schedule an Upgrade and enter the rest of the form details as required.
      To schedule an Emergency Restore procedure that restores the Connect:Direct product and system files to its state as it was before upgrade, select Emergency Restore Job from the Job Type drop-down menu.
      Note: For an Emergency Restore Job, Servers and Server Groups display servers and server groups with valid restore points.
    3. Select Start Now/Schedule for Later/Hold for Later to schedule the job.
    4. Click Schedule.

      Scheduled job is now listed under the All Jobs view.

  2. View and manage Jobs regardless of their state
    1. Click Jobs>All Jobs to view all jobs in your environment.
    2. Select an entry to view job details.
    3. Select an entry and click Export to export and view job details in a .csv format.
    4. Select an entry and click Delete to remove a held state job if it is no longer required.
    5. Select an entry and click Edit to edit job.
      Note: A job that is In Progress state can be stopped but not edited.
  3. View and Manage Jobs by their current or recent state.
    1. Click Jobs to view all jobs in your environment by state that is, In Progress, Held, Scheduled, and Completed.

Use Custom scripts in Deployment feature

  1. Once the scripts are added to Control Center, they can be utilized in Deployment jobs.
  2. The deployment job creation screen now includes two new drop-downs—one for selecting pre-upgrade scripts and another for post-upgrade scripts. These drop-downs are populated based on the types selected for each script during the Adding Script process.
    Note: The drop-downs will be visible only if the selected CD package supports Custom script.
  3. Choose one or more pre-upgrade and post-upgrade scripts according to your needs.
  4. Create the deployment job.
Additional information:
  • Once the Deployment job is created and starts execution, the install agent on the Connect:Direct side will download selected scripts if included during job creation.
  • The option to specify the installer location during the upgrade process is not supported by Connect:Direct. Since this location is stored in the initparam file, users can use the Configuration menu to update the initparam file accordingly.
  • While creating a deployment job, if the user has selected either type of the custom script from the drop-down,then only those servers will be allowed to be part of the job which supports the custom scripts. If the user has selected server/s that don’t support the custom scripts, then on clicking of submit button, an error will be thrown, and the user won’t be allowed to create the job.