Upgrade from 5.3 to 5.5 on new hardware

Hi Rick,

We are upgrading from 5.2 to 5.5, where 5.5 is installed on a new cluster of (HP-UX) servers.

I made a copy of the production-site on 5.2 by using the mktar, ftp’ed the .tar to the 5.5 server and extracted the site into a test-site on 5.5. I then changed all the inbound/outbound ports/files/directories so I had a working 5.5 testing-site.

Worked like a charm. Just make sure you don’t copy the $HCISITEDIR/exec directory.

Hi Rick,

easiest way of doing this is to mount the old directory on the new server and use hcirootcopy.

Best wishes from Germany,

Dirk

All,

When we migrated from 5.3 on old hardware to 5.4.1 on new hardware we accomplished this by installing the new cloverleaf software (5.4.1) on the new hardware, then simply created a 5.3 root directory on the new hardware, tar’d up the configuration files from the 5.3 box, and laid them out on the new box in the 5.3 directory that was created.  You can then perform the normal ‘site promotion’ process to migrate the 5.3 configurations to the new version.  This approach allows the site promotion to handle some potential conversions that are done to the configuration files (i.e. via hcirootcopy, hcixltconvert, hcitclconvert, etc.).

Hope this helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health