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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Upgrade installation versus pristine installation
If you are upgrading from an earlier release of Tivoli Monitoring to V6.3, you already have a correctly installed and configured version of Java available on the system where the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client is used.
Supported Java versions for IBM Tivoli Monitoring releases before the V6.3 release included IBM Java 5, IBM Java 6, Oracle Java 5, and Oracle Java 6. In this case, the upgrade to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 does not require any corresponding Java upgrade. You can continue to use the existing version of Java that is working successfully with your current release of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Web Start clients, after upgrading to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3. No other post-installation configuration is required for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser or Web Start client.
Starting with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 release, use of Java 5 (1.5) is not recommended for use with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to using Java 7 (1.7) that is provided with IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3. The use of Oracle's Java 7 is also supported for V6.3.
However, if you decide after upgrading to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 that you want to upgrade your installed version of Java to IBM Java 7, you can do so by using much of the same procedure used for a pristine installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3. See the following sections for information about manually upgrading your existing version of Java to IBM Java 7:
- Windows: Upgrading your existing version of Java to IBM Java 7
- Linux: Upgrading your existing version of Java to IBM Java 7
For a pristine installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 on Windows systems, the upgrade to IBM Java 7 is triggered when you first start the V6.3 Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client. Windows: Installing IBM Java 7 describes the installation of IBM Java 7.
For a pristine installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 on Linux systems, the installation and configuration of IBM Java 7 is recommended for use with the V6.3 Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client. Linux: Installing IBM Java 7 describes the installation of IBM Java 7.
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