Gathering information for MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 upgrades

To avoid having to stop the upgrade process to look up required information, gather it in advance and have it handy.

One of the purposes of these instructions is to minimize the time for upgrades to MobileFirst Server. You do not want to start the procedure and then discover that you are missing some piece of information that is required by the installer.

To avoid this situation, prepare a list of information that you are likely to be asked for and keep it handy during the upgrade process.

In addition, it is often necessary to pre-plan certain aspects of the upgrade and clear them with the application server administrator and the database administrator. For example, you must know the correct user name. You must also either have sufficient permissions to create or update databases, or have the database administrator do it for you.

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	Run	Run

Go through the following checklist.

• Verify that the operating system, application server, and Database Management System (DBMS) meet the system requirements for MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 at Detailed System Requirements for MPF and IBM Mobile Foundation.

• Make a list of the host names and IP addresses of all servers that must be upgraded.

• Make a similar list of all database names and locations.

• Ensure that the correct JDBC drivers for the target databases are available on the computer. IBM Installation Manager needs access to these drivers to upgrade the Application Center database. Ant scripts also need access to these drivers to create the administration database and upgrade MobileFirst runtime databases.

• Gather the credentials to the MobileFirst Server administration, the MobileFirst runtime environments, the MobileFirst reports, and Application Center databases. If we do not know the correct schemas, user names, and passwords, ask the database administrator for assistance.

  The MobileFirst Server administration database does not exist for IBM Worklight 6.1 or earlier.

• Stop and restart the application server and verify its configuration. If we do not know the correct schemas, user names, and passwords, ask the database administrator for assistance.

• If the URL to the Application Center or the MobileFirst Server applications or their console changes, identify all the systems that update. If we upgrade from v6.1.0 to v6.3.0, the URLs to the Application Center and the MobileFirst runtime environment do not change, but a new URL is introduced for the MobileFirst Operations Console.

Parent topic: Preparation for upgrades to MobileFirst Server