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 to the recent version. 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 current version of WBI Monitor 4.2.4 (Fix Pack1) database, and migrate the stored data to the upgraded database.

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

  1. Stop the MQ Workflow Engine (if you are using MQ Workflow as one of the runtime engines).

  2. 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 and the MQ Workflow Database (if you are using MQ Workflow as one of the runtime engines).

  1. Perform the Database Migration and Upgrade after completely un-deploying the existing deployed version of the Monitor Server. The next section of this chapter describes how to perform the database upgrade in detail.

  2. 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.