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Foglight 6.0.0 - Upgrade Guide

Table of Contents

Understand product versions

Components compatibility Compatible cartridges list

Foglight cartridge upgrade issues Foglight appliance upgrade issues

Foglight Management Server Foglight Agent Manager

Embedded Agent Manager Agent Manager client installation cartridges Client-side Agent Managers

Application Monitoring cartridges

Application Performance Monitoring cartridges Application Management cartridges

Database cartridges

Foglight for Azure SQL Database Foglight for DB2 LUW Foglight for Oracle Foglight for SQL Server Foglight for SAP ASE

End User Management cartridges

End User cartridges

Infrastructure Management cartridges

Foglight for Infrastructure Foglight for Active Directory Foglight for Exchange

Integration cartridges Virtualization cartridges Foglight Experience Monitor appliance Foglight Experience Viewer appliance Upgrade use cases

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

Dependency and compatibility matrices Prepare for an upgrade Upgrade order Where to find upgrade information Update the Java Runtime Environment

Upgrade the Foglight Management Server

Migrate to Windows SSO from VSJ SSO Upgrade the Management Server

Host services compatibility Start the embedded Agent Manager Upgrade a Management Server in a federated environment

Federation compatibility Upgrade sequence

Upgrade the Management Server in a High Availability (HA) environment Upgrade the Management Server with an Oracle RAC database

Oracle database users Database changes

Upgrade the Foglight Agent Manager

Upgrade the Agent Manager Upgrade concentrators Upgrade installations with multiple state instances Upgrade a 32-bit FglAM installation on a 64-bit operating system Agent Manager upgrade issues

FglAM vm.config file migration fails under multi-state installations Upgrade from an Agent Manager version earlier than 5.5.4 Certificate migration from version 5.6.2.1 or earlier

Upgrade the Database cartridges

Upgrade Foglight for DB2 LUW Upgrade Foglight for Oracle Upgrade Foglight for SQL Server Upgrade Foglight for SAP ASE Upgrade Foglight for Azure SQL Database

Upgrading the Infrastructure Management cartridges

Upgrade Foglight for Active Directory Upgrade Foglight for Exchange Upgrade Foglight for Office 365 Upgrade Foglight for Infrastructure Upgrade Foglight Change Analyzer Upgrade Foglight for Hyper-V Upgrade Foglight Resource Optimizer Upgrade Foglight for Storage Management cartridge Upgrade Foglight for VMware Upgrade Foglight for VMware Horizon View Upgrade Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp Upgrade Foglight for Container Management Upgrade Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager Upgrade Foglight Capacity Director Upgrade Foglight Cost Director Upgrade Foglight Cloud Migration Upgrade Quest Protect Upgrade Foglight for vCloud Director Upgrade Foglight for NetVault

Upgrade the Integration cartridges

Upgrade Foglight for Integration Upgrade Foglight for NMS Integration

Upgrade the cartridges in a federated or High Availability (HA) environment

Upgrade cartridges in a federated environment Upgrade cartridges in a High Availability environment

Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface

Deploying an agent package through the Agent Managers dashboard Deploying an agent package through the Agent Status dashboard

Application Performance Monitoring cartridges

The Application Performance Monitoring cartridges have not been updated for this release. Their versions remain as listed below:

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Foglight for Application Operations, version 5.9.8.5

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Foglight for Java EE Technologies, version 5.9.13

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Foglight for JMX, version 5.9.8

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Foglight for Microsoft .NET, version 5.9.13

Application Management cartridges

The Application Management cartridges have not been updated for this release. Their versions remain as listed below:

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Foglight for IBM WebSphere MQ Server, version 5.5.5.13

Database cartridges

The following Database cartridges are currently available:

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Foglight for Azure SQL Database

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Foglight for DB2 LUW

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Foglight for Oracle

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Foglight for SQL Server

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Foglight for SAP ASE

Foglight for Azure SQL Database

Foglight for Azure SQL Database has been updated to version 6.0.0. For a list of features and defect fixes, see the Foglight for Azure SQL Database Release Notes.

Upgrade difficulty: Easy

Expected time: 5-15 minutes (varies depending on the size of your environment)

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