Upgrading your Existing Version of WBI Monitor to the Recent Version

This chapter contains the required information about upgrading your existing version of WBI Monitor (WBI Monitor v4.2.4 Fix Pack1, or WBI Monitor v4.2.4 Fix Pack1 HotFix) to the recent version (WBI Monitor v4.2.4 Fix Pack2). This includes replacing the deployed version of WBI Monitor application on WebSphere Application Server with the new version, as well as upgrading the existing Monitor database that already contains data stored in its tables to adhere to the latest modification in the recent version of WBI Monitor database, and migrate the stored data to the upgraded database.

The WBI Monitor upgrade must be performed in the following sequence:

  1. Un-deploy the existing version of WBI Monitor Server completely from the WebSphere Application Server. On Windows, AIX and Solaris platform, you can perform the un-deployment either automatically or manually. On z/OS and OS/390 platforms you can only perform the un-deployment manually.

Refer to the section entitled WBI Monitor Server Un-Deployment in Part 2 - Chapter 2: WBI Monitor Installation of this guide for the detailed steps of automatic un-deployment of WBI Monitor Server. Refer also to the section with the same title in Appendix A: and Appendix B in Part 2 of this guide for the detailed steps of the manual un-deployment of WBI Monitor Server.  Refer to the section entitled IBM WBI Monitor Deployment on OS/390 and z/OS Platforms in Part 3 of this guide for the un-deployment steps.

  1. Backup your existing Monitor database.

  2. Perform the Database Migration and Upgrade after completely un-deploying the existing version of the Monitor Server, in order to upgrade the existing database and its data to this version. The existing database must be of the previous version of the WBI Monitor (v4.2.4 Fix Pack2). If the existing database belong to an earlier version before the stated version, then the upgrade must be done incrementally step by step from each version to its next version.

To perform the database upgrade, run the appropriate SQL file that exists in the migration\SQL folder as the following:

Before running these files, you should edit them in order to change the variable named $SCHEMA$ with the actual name of the tables schema  in each occurrence in the files.

  1. Install the new version of WBI Monitor and Deploy the WBI Monitor Server that belongs to the new version of WBI Monitor after completing the upgrade and migration of the database.

Refer to the section entitled WBI Monitor Server Installation and deployment in Part 2 - Chapter 2: WBI Monitor Installation of this guide for the detailed steps of automatic deployment of WBI Monitor Server. Refer also to Appendix A and Appendix B in Part 2 of this guide for the detailed steps of the manual deployment of WBI Monitor Server. Please refer to the section entitled IBM WBI Monitor Deployment on OS/390 and z/OS Platforms in Part 3 of this guide for the deployment steps.