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Foglight 5.9.1 - Upgrade Guide

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

Virtualization cartridges

The following virtualization cartridges are compatible with the Management Server 5.9.1:

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Foglight Capacity Director, version 5.7.4
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Foglight Capacity Management, version 5.7.4
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Foglight Capacity Manager, version 5.7.4
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Foglight Change Analyzer 5.7.4
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Foglight Chargeback 5.7.4
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Foglight for Hyper-V 5.7.4
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Foglight Integration for OpenManage Essentials 5.7.0
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Foglight for OpenStack, version 5.7.4
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Foglight Resource Optimizer 5.7.4
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Foglight for Storage Management 4.5.0
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Foglight for vCloud Director 5.7.4
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Foglight for VMware 5.7.4
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Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.7.4
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Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 5.7.4

Upgrade difficulty: Easy

Expected time: Approximately 5 minutes per cartridge

Foglight Experience Monitor appliance

The latest version of the Foglight Experience Monitor appliance is 5.7.0. For a list of features and defect fixes, see the Foglight Experience Monitor Release Notes.

Upgrade difficulty: Easy

Expected time: 20 - 60 minutes (depending on whether or not any database tables are corrupt and need fixing — an automatic process that is run before and after the upgrade to ensure the database is fine)

Foglight Experience Viewer appliance

The latest version of the Foglight Experience Viewer appliance is 5.6.6. For a list of features and defect fixes, see the Foglight Experience Viewer Release Notes.

Upgrade difficulty: Easy

Expected time: 15 - 20 minutes (can vary considerably depending on your connection speed)

Upgrade use cases

The following are common upgrade use cases:

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Scenario 1 — New release
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Scenario 2 — New Management Server features or defect fixes
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Scenario 3 — Agent Manager client-side feature dependency or defect fix
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