Getting Started with vFabric Hyperic v.5.7 - VMware

Agent Name Unchanged by Bundle Upgrade ProcessNote that if you upgrade a pre-4.6 agent by pushing a new bundle from the vFabric HypericServer, the name of the agent is not changed. So, an agent name that contains the vFabricHyperic version number — as is the default naming convention — reflects the originallyinstalled version, rather than the version to which it has been upgraded. For example, ifyou push a 5.7 bundle to an agent whose name is "HQ Agent 4.5", the agent name willremain "HQ Agent 4.5".Upgrade Agent Bundle ManuallyFollow these steps if you wish to manually upgrade the agent bundle in your agent installation,instead of pushing the bundle from the vFabric Hyperic Server.Note: When you update an agent bundle, your previous agent configuration is preserved — theAgentHome/conf/agent.properties file is not overwritten.1. Copy the agent bundle (agent-5.x.y-nnn.tgz or agent-5.x.y-nnn.zip) fromServerHome/hq-engine/hq-server/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/hq-agent-bundlestoAgentHome/bundles2. Unpack the agent bundle.3. Edit the rollback.properties file in AgentHome/conf to specify the location of thenew agent bundle and the bundle it will supersede.Property Description ExampleHQ_AGENT_BUNDLEHQ_AGENT_ROLLBACK_BUNDLEName of directory withthe new bundle, withoutfull path specification.Name of directory withthe old bundle (the oneyou are upgradingfrom), without full pathspecification.agent-5.x.y-EE-nnnagent-4.5.0-EE-nnn4. Restart the agent. For instructions, see Start, Stop, and Other Agent Operations invFabric Hyperic Configuration.If the upgrade to the new agent bundle fails, an attempt will be made to start the agent using theold agent bundle.You can determine whether the upgrade was successful and what version you are running bylooking at the log files in AgentHome/logs.93