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Foglight 7.3.0 - Upgrade Guide

Understand product versions Best practices Upgrade the Foglight Management Server Upgrade the Foglight Agent Manager Upgrade the Database cartridges Upgrading the Infrastructure Management cartridges Upgrade the Integration cartridges Upgrade the cartridges in a federated or High Availability (HA) environment Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface

Understand product versions

This guide provides instructions on how to upgrade to the latest version of the Foglight® Management Server and the Foglight Agent Manager. This guide also provides upgrade instructions for the cartridges and cartridge-related components that are included with Foglight 7.3.0. The latest version of the Foglight Management Server is 7.3.0.

This section provides information about important changes made in this release, product versions, and components compatibility:

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Components compatibility
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Compatible cartridges list

Components compatibility

The Foglight 7.3.0 code line includes a number of critical changes which require particular attention for customers upgrading from previous versions.This has the following specific impacts on customers upgrading from a lower version.

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Foglight introduced FIPS Compliance mode starting from 5.9.7. Once the FIPS Compliance mode is enabled or disabled during installation, you cannot change it without a complete re-installation of Foglight.
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Foglight Management Servers must be upgraded to version 6.3.0 before they can upgrade to the 7.3.0 code line. If the Foglight Management Server is below 6.3.0, the installer may fail.
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All Quest or Quest partner delivered cartridges that have a dependency on the changed components in the data submission handler must be upgraded prior to upgrading to the 7.3.0 code line. A complete list of cartridges is provided in Compatible cartridges list. If there are incompatible Quest or Quest partner delivered cartridges, the installer will fail and display the appropriate error message. Other custom cartridges MAY have a dependency on the server side data handling component that has changed
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Before upgrading to 7.3.0, Quest recommends you create a Management Server Support Bundle to facilitate future communications with support regarding upgrade failures.
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Customer running High Availability (HA) or Federation are advised to review the following relevant guides prior to upgrade: Federation Field Guide, and High Availability Field Guide.

Compatible cartridges list

When upgrading any of the database cartridges to version 7.3.0, you must first upgrade the Management Server to version 7.3.0, and then directly upgrade the cartridges. Foglight 7.3.0 is backward compatible with Database and Evolve cartridges from version 7.1.0 and above. If you upgrade Foglight core to 7.3.0, cartridges from version 7.1.0 or above will remain functional. However, you will not have access to any new features introduced in the latest versions.

The following software has been updated for the Foglight 7.3.0 release:

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Foglight Agent Manager
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Foglight for Infrastructure
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Foglight for DB2 LUW
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Foglight for SQL Server
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Foglight for SAP ASE
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Foglight for Oracle
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Foglight for Azure SQL Database
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Foglight for MySQL PI
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Foglight for PostgreSQL
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Foglight for MongoDB
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Foglight for Snowflake

 

For a complete list of fixes for any of these components, please refer to the release notes that accompany them. If you decide to maintain the version you have of any of the updated components, as opposed to upgrading, you will not acquire the new fixes for that component.

For more details, see these topics:

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Foglight cartridge upgrade issues
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Foglight appliance upgrade issues

Foglight cartridge upgrade issues

Foglight 7.3 is NOT compatible with any of the Foglight Evolve cartridges prior to 7.1.0.

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