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Chapter 8: Upgrading from 7.5 or 7.6 to 8.5
Encrypting Domain Manager Boot Files
The upgrade process created new Domain Manager boot files—ds.xml and
container.ini—that are unencrypted. If you want to encrypt them in the 8.5 installation,
see the corresponding procedures in the “Encrypting the Directory Service and its Boot
Files” section of the “Configuring Framework Components” chapter in the Progress
SonicMQ Configuration and Management Guide.
Resolving the Status of the Old Installation
You can retain the original installation if you think you might want to revert to it for any
reason. Unless you intend to point to resources in the old installation (such as certificates
as described in the previous item), you should prevent the old installation from being
started inadvertently. You could rename the bootfile by appending _beforeV8Upgrade to its
name or such.
Alternately, you could archive the installation directory, and then uninstall that version
and delete any residual files. You can still retrieve individual files that you might want
from the archive.
Deleting a Prior Installation After Upgrade
After you have completed an upgrade and you are sure you do not want to revert the
upgrade, you can delete the 7.5 or 7.6 installation but there are some considerations. There
are several functions that might have been maintained in the prior installations directory
structure and that could adversely impact the upgraded installation.
Important If any configurations on a system are not yet upgraded to 8.5, you need to maintain the
environment and scripts in the physical installation that will support those configurations.
It is good practice to archive the prior installation’s directory, purge the unused portions,
and then, when the upgraded installation is seen to operate correctly, delete the archive.
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