Planning your upgrade schedule
Upgrading involves planning, preparing, executing multiple activities and tasks, and troubleshooting. Planning enough time for all necessary activities helps ease the process.
Plan enough time to complete each phase of the upgrade process:
- Determining when you can upgrade
- Planning the upgrade
- Performing pre-upgrade tasks. For more information, see Before you upgrade.
- Upgrading in a test environment
- Troubleshooting your test upgrade
- Upgrading your production environment
Plan time into your schedule to perform the upgrade in a test environment. You can perform a test upgrade to test and troubleshoot your upgrade to avoid additional downtime in your production environment.
You can also schedule sufficient time to train administrators and users to use Maximo® Application Suite and Maximo Manage. Team members need to understand the capabilities of the new software to participate in the upgrade planning process.