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Upgrade: Installation or upgrade of MobileFirst Server Administration Services

As part of the MobileFirst Server upgrade, install the Administration Services, and optionally the MobileFirst Operations Console.

The following table lists the upgrade paths in which this step is mandatory.

Is this step required for the upgrade path? System status after this step, if both Application Center and MobileFirst Server are on the same application server
Worklight Server V5.0.6.x to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 Worklight Server v6.0.x to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 Worklight Server v6.1.x to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0.x Worklight Server v6.2.x to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 v6.3.0 to v6.3.0.x (fix pack or interim fix) Application Center Status MobileFirst Server Status
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Stopped (embedded Liberty, Liberty on Windows, Tomcat on Windows), upgraded (other cases) Stopped (all instances)

The procedure is different depending on whether you upgrade from a previous version to v6.3.0, or to a fix pack or interim fix.

For an upgrade from Worklight Server v6.1.0 or earlier to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0

Follow the steps in Install the MobileFirst Server administration.

For an upgrade from Worklight Server v6.2.0 to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0

  1. Back up the administration database

  2. Find the Ant file created in Identify the MobileFirst WAR file and prepare the Ant deployment script.

  3. Make sure that the taskdef for the worklight-ant-deployer.jar file uses the correct directory. The correct directory is the directory containing the upgraded installation of MobileFirst Server v6.3.0.

  4. Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to product_install_dir/tools/apache-ant-1.8.4/.

  5. Upgrade the administration database:

      product_install_dir/tools/apache-ant-1.8.4/bin/ant -f your_file admdatabases

  6. Run the minimal-admupdate target of the Ant file:

      product_install_dir/tools/apache-ant-1.8.4/bin/ant -f your_file minimal-admupdate

For an upgrade from MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 to a fix pack or to an interim fix

  1. Find the Ant file created in Identify the MobileFirst WAR file and prepare the Ant deployment script.

  2. Make sure that the taskdef for the worklight-ant-deployer.jar file uses the correct directory. The correct directory is the directory containing the upgraded installation of MobileFirst Server v6.3.0.

  3. Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to product_install_dir/tools/apache-ant-1.8.4/.

  4. Run the minimal-admupdate target of the Ant file:

      product_install_dir/tools/apache-ant-1.8.4/bin/ant -f your_file minimal-admupdate


Parent topic: Upgrading the MobileFirst runtime environment for MobileFirst Server v6.3.0