Problem: Upgrade Stratusphere appliances online (version 5.0 or above)
Symptoms: N/A
Possible Resolution(s)
*Always take a snapshot prior upgrading your Stratusphere appliances
When it comes to upgrading your Stratusphere appliance, you can either upgrade directly from our repository online, or you can download the offline upgrade package and run the upgrade pack on your appliance to perform the upgrades. This article will focus on online upgrade.
There are a list of methods that will allow you to upgrade your Stratusphere appliances online.
- LWL menu: logon to your Stratusphere appliance as root, and once the command prompt is available, run command lwl. A successful execution will return a screen similar to the following (the menu screen may change in different versions and different appliances):
Select option U to access Update Software Menu. There are several options: Check for Updates will only check and see if there is any updates available. If so, it will return how many packages available for update. Update will execute the update process. View Log will display the most recent portion of lwl-update.log in /var/log/ directory.When you execute the update process, it will pull down all available packages for that version. Once the upgrade is complete, you may run Check for Updates or just run Update again and see if there is any more upgrade packages available.
After all the upgrades have been executed and no more upgrade available, you will need to reboot the appliances.
- YUM: Update is not available in every version of LWL menu. When it is not available, you will have to run YUM commands to update. This is the actual command that LWL menu executes when you call for an update. To use YUM to upgrade the appliance, you will need to do the following:
- yum clean all: this command cleans the list of previous upgraded packages and the cached files. You need to run this every time before your update to clear the previous update cache.
- yum check-update: it checks against the online repository to see if there is any upgrade packages available. This does not perform the update.
- yum update: this command performs the download and the execution of the upgrade packages.
Repeat step 1 to 3 until there is no upgrades available. It is also recommended to repeat step 1 again at the end to clean up the upgrade. After all the upgrades have been executed and no more upgrade available, you will need to reboot the appliances.
- (Deprecated)ssconsole: ssconsole is the original Stratusphere console where you can configure your Stratusphere Hub and Station. It has a input format similar to Cisco IOS commands. Because it is designed specifically for Stratusphere Hub and Station only, not Database server, its development has been discontinued and is considered deprecated. The only situation you would run the update from ssconsole is when ssconsole is the only access available to you. There are two commands:
- software check: checks to see if any upgrade package is available only. Does not perform update.
- software update: check the available upgrade packages, download them, and perform update.
You can run software update until there is no more upgrade. Also when all the updates are done, reboot your appliance.
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to upgrade ALL Appliances in one session. If that cannot be done, update your Stratusphere Hub and Database Server first, and Stations last. Stratusphere Hub and Database Server have to be on the same version to operate, therefore when you update them, you want to update them simultaneously, so that if you have to stop at any version, you will have both appliance at the same version and operational.
Product: Stratusphere Fit/UX
Product Version: 5.0 and above
Expires on:365 days from publish date
Updated: July 22, 2013 ***Update Needed***