To upgrade an installation of version 5.0 or later, use IBM® Installation Manager Update feature.
Download and extract
the files for IBM UrbanCode™
Release to a directory that contains no spaces or double-byte characters. See the IBM UrbanCode
Release download document.
- Stop the application server if it is running.
-
Back up the server, including the following files:
- server_install/opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml
- server_install/bin/set_env (Linux) or
server_install/bin/set_env.bat
(Windows)
- server_install/opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat.keystore
For more information about backing up the server, see
Backing up IBM UrbanCode Release.
- Start IBM Installation Manager.
- In IBM Installation Manager, click and then click Repositories.
- On the Repositories window, click Add Repository.
- In the Add Repository window, select
the file diskTag.inf, which is in the UCR/disk1 folder in the launchpad files.
- Click OK to close the Add Repository window and then click OK to close the Preferences window.
- On the Installation Manager start window, click Update.
- Select the package group that includes IBM UrbanCode
Release, with the desired release level and then click Next.
- Ensure that the correct version of IBM UrbanCode
Release is selected and then click Next.
The Update Packages window, displays the release level being installed
and the release level that is currently installed.
- On the Licenses page, read and accept
the license agreements for the selected products. If you agree to
the terms of all of the license agreements, click I accept
the terms in the license agreements and then click Next.
- Ensure that the appropriate version of IBM UrbanCode
Release is selected and then click Next.
- If you are upgrading to version 6.1 or later, select the
default language for the server and then click Next.
- On the licensing settings page, in the License
server elements field, specify the port and host name
for the license server, such as
27000@localhost
.
Then, click Next. - If you are upgrading to version 6.1 or later, to set up
a mail server for sending notifications, specify the information for
an SMTP server and then click Next.
- On the file backup page, read the warnings and follow the
instructions for backing up your files.
- Click Update.
-
Restore the files that you backed up in step 2.
After the installation process completes, you can start
the application server and then access IBM UrbanCode
Release. See Starting and accessing IBM UrbanCode Release for details.