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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Plan an upgrade
Before upgrading your infrastructure components follow the checklist to plan your upgrade.
Use the following checklist to plan your upgrade:
- Check that the plan is in place for upgrading the environment (upgrade the environment incrementally). Follow a formal change management plan for Tivoli Monitoring upgrades and include, at minimum, both a deployment and tested backout plan.
- Download the correct upgrade media, not the fresh installation media.
- Back up all Tivoli Monitoring core components such as monitoring server and portal server.
- Carefully review the appropriate Fix Pack Readme and Documentation Addendum for any prerequisites.
Before upgrading your infrastructure components and beginning the upgrade process, perform a cold backup of your hub monitoring server, portal server, portal client, Warehouse Proxy Agents, Summarization and Pruning Agents, and remote monitoring server. Back up the following key components:
- Portal server database
- Warehouse database
- Full system backups and file system backups for installed Tivoli Monitoring components
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Applying maintenance