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Upgrading Avaya Aura® applications when the primary System Manager is operational, and the secondary in standby and pause state

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. On the System Manager web console, click Services > Solution Deployment Manager.
  2. To delete the current application OVA files that need to migrate from the secondary System Manager, perform the following:
    1. In the left navigation pane, click Software Library Management.
    2. Click Manage Files, and select the application OVA files to delete.
    3. Click Delete.
  3. For each Avaya Aura® application, select the application, and perform the following:
    1. To refresh elements, click Pre-upgrade Actions > Refresh Elements.
    2. To analyze software, click Pre-upgrade Actions > Analyze.
    3. To download the OVA file to the software library, click Solution Deployment Manager > Download Management.
    4. To analyze software, click Pre-upgrade Actions > Analyze.
    5. To perform the preupgrade check, click Pre-upgrade Actions > Pre-upgrade Check.
    6. To perform the upgrade, click Upgrade Actions > Upgrade/Update.
    7. In the Target Host field, select Same Box.

      All applications come to the Pause state.

  4. When the primary System Manager is operational, to upgrade from the primary System Manager server, for each application, copy backup files from the secondary System Manager to the primary System Manager server.
    • For System Platform, copy the full path /swlibrary/orchestrator/backup/System_Platform/<System_platform_IP> from secondary System Manager to primary System Manager.

      For example, scp -r System_Platform admin@<Primary SMGR IP>:/swlibrary/orchestrator/backup/.

    • For System Platform, copy the full path /swlibrary/orchestrator/backup/Session_Manager/<Session_Manager_IP> from secondary System Manager to primary System Manager with the same path.

      For example, scp -r Session_Manager admin@<Primary SMGR IP>:/swlibrary/orchestrator/backup/.

  5. Deactivate the secondary System Manager server.
  6. On the primary System Manager server, click Services > Geographic Redundancy, and restore the data from the secondary server.

    The system restores the secondary System Manager server database.

  7. From Solution Deployment Manager, download the application OVAs if not previously downloaded.
  8. On the primary System Manager, click Services > Solution Deployment Manager > Upgrade Management.
  9. Select the applications, and click Upgrade Actions > Resume.

    The system starts the virtual machine deployment and restore operation from the primary System Manager server.