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Foglight 5.9.5 - 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 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

Where to find upgrade information

For information on how to upgrade the Management Server, see Upgrade the Foglight Management Server.

For information on how to upgrade the Agent Manager, see Upgrade the Foglight Agent Manager.

For information on how to upgrade Foglight cartridges, see:

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Upgrade the Application Monitoring cartridges
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Upgrade the Database cartridges
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Upgrade the End User Management cartridges
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Upgrading the Infrastructure Management cartridges
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Upgrade the Integration cartridges
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Upgrade the cartridges in a federated or High Availability (HA) environment

Update the Java Runtime Environment

Both the Management Server and the Agent Manager require a Java® Runtime Environment. Quest Software Inc. tests and bundles each Foglight release with versions of the JRE that are compatible with the Management Server and the Agent Manager. Quest audits the security bulletins from Oracle® that are related to those versions of the JRE. If Quest determines that any of the bulletins are applicable to the Management Server or Agent Manager code, Quest releases a security update with the necessary fixes incorporated.

Quest recommends that you use the JRE versions bundled with the Foglight release, because Quest cannot guarantee that other versions of the JRE will perform correctly. However, Quest recognizes that you may have particularly stringent security requirements that require you to use a different version of the JRE.

If you must upgrade a version of the JRE, Quest will make the effort, in good faith, to support the upgrade, as long as it meets the following guidelines:

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The new JRE must be on the same major release branch, and the upgrade must update no more than the 4th set of digits in the version number (for example, 1.8.0.xx).
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You must use the following JRE upgrade process for the Agent Manager:
a
Stop the Agent Manager.
b
In the jre subdirectory of your Agent Manager installation directory, create a new directory named for the version number of the JRE to which you want to upgrade, with components separated by periods (for example, 1.8.0.25).
c
Unpack the new JRE into that directory.
d
Restart the Agent Manager, which will look for and use the newest JRE available to it.
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You must use the following JRE upgrade process for the Management Server.
a
Stop the Management Server.
b
Rename <foglight_home>/jre to <foglight_home>/jre.bak.
c
Create a new <foglight_home>/jre directory.
d
Unpack the new JRE into the new <foglight_home>/jre directory.
e
Restart the Management Server.
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For problem replication:
a
You must advise Quest technical support that you are on a non-standard JRE.
b
Quest will first try to reproduce problems on our bundled version of the JRE.
c
Quest will then try to reproduce problems on the version of the JRE to which you upgraded.
d
If Quest cannot replicate the problem on either the bundled version or the specific version of the JRE to which you upgraded, you may be asked to return our bundled version of the JRE.

Upgrade the Foglight Management Server

Upgrade the Foglight Management Server

This section provides information about the following topics:

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Migrate to Windows SSO from VSJ SSO
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Upgrade the Management Server
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Oracle database users
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Database changes

Migrate to Windows SSO from VSJ SSO

If you were using the VSJ SSO implementation in earlier versions of Foglight, you must migrate to the new Windows OS-based SSO.

To migrate to Windows OS-based SSO from VSJ SSO:
1
Make a backup of the vsj.properties file before you upgrade Foglight. You can find this file in the following location:
<foglight_home>/server/default/deploy-foglight/console.war/WEB-INF/vsj.properties
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Upgrade Foglight to the latest version.
3
If there is no keytab file configured in the VSJ SSO, create the keytab file first using the ktpass command, as described in “Configure Active Directory to support Windows Single Sign-on” section in the Foglight online help.
4
Edit the krb5-auth.config file to set the properties described in the following table.
 
Table 4. VSJ properties and the corresponding krb5-auth.config properties
vsj.properties
krb5-auth.config
idm.princ

Principal

idm.keytab

Keytab

idm.ad.qualifyUserPrincipal

QualifyUserPrincipal

5
Edit the krb5.config file. Set the realm name to the vsj.properties idm.realm value.
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