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Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.9.3 - Upgrade Guide

Upgrading the Infrastructure Management cartridges

This section explains how to upgrade an earlier version of an Infrastructure Management cartridge to the most current version. For details, refer to the following topics:

Upgrading Foglight for Active Directory

The latest version of Foglight for Active Directory is 5.8.3. You can upgrade to version 5.8.3 of Foglight for Active Directory from 5.7.2.2 or higher.

Foglight for Active Directory 5.8.3 requires Management Server version 5.9.4 or later, or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.8.5 or later.

a
From the navigation panel, navigate to the Credentials > Manage Lockboxes dashboard.
b
Create a custom lockbox for the Active Directory® credential. In the New Lockbox dialog box, type ActiveDirectory as the lockbox name, and secure the lockbox by typing a password (optionally). If you choose to use the default lockbox (System), you can ignore this step.
c
In the Manage Lockboxes dashboard, release the lockbox for the newly create ActiveDirectory lockbox, by clicking the icon on its Release to Credentials Clients column. Enter the password for authorizing the operation, select the clients from the list, and click Release.
5
From the navigation panel, navigate to Dashboards > Active Directory Environment > Administration tab. In the Agent Management view select the Active Directory agents that you want to upgrade, and click Upgrade Agent.

Upgrading Foglight for Exchange

The latest version of Foglight for Exchange is 5.8.3. You can upgrade to version 5.8.3 of Foglight for Exchange from version 5.7.2.2 and later.

Foglight for Exchange 5.8.3 requires Management Server version 5.9.4 or later, or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.8.5 or later.

a
From the navigation panel, navigate to the Credentials > Manage Lockboxes dashboard.
b
Create a custom lockbox for the Exchange credential. In the New Lockbox dialog box, type ExchangeLockbox as the lockbox name, and secure the lockbox by typing a password (optionally). If you choose to use the default lockbox (System), you can ignore this step.
c
In the Manage Lockboxes dashboard, release the lockbox for the newly create ExchangeLockbox lockbox, by clicking the icon on its Release to Credentials Clients column. Enter the password for authorizing the operation, select the clients from the list, and click Release.
5
From the navigation panel, navigate to Dashboards > Exchange Environment > Administration tab. In the Agent Management view select the Exchange agents that you want to upgrade, and click Upgrade Agent.

Upgrading Foglight ActionPacks

The latest version of Foglight ActionPacks is 5.6.3.8:

Foglight ActionPacks 5.6.3.8 requires Management Server version 5.9.4 or later.

The ActionPacks require the ActionPack-Runtime.car file, which is included in the Foglight Automation.car file. All cartridges must have the same version.

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