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Foglight 5.9.8 - 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

Create, configure, and activate the FxM agent

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Navigate to Foglight > Dashboards > End User > FxM > FxM System Health and write down the existing FxM system name (from the earlier version).
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From the Agent Status page, click Create Agent to create the FxM Agent.
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Click Create.
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From the Agent Status page, select the agent and click Edit Properties to configure the Agent Properties.
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Click Modify properties for this agent only.
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Click Activate to activate the FxM agent that you just created.
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Click Start Data Collection.

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:

Upgrade 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Upgrade 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.
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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.
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