Upgrading – Process Overview

The following process overview describes the tasks necessary to properly upgrade from the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 4.1 to the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0.

1. Determine whether the servers that you are upgrading meet the minimum requirements to run the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0.

   See Chapter 2, System Requirements for the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0.

2. Choose the Master Server upgrade instructions for your operating system.

   • If you are running the Master Server on Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, or 8.0, follow the instructions in How to Upgrade a Master Server From an Operating System That Is No Longer Supported.

   • If you are running the Master Server on any other operating system, follow the instructions in How to Migrate Master Server Data From Supported Operating Systems.

3. Complete the instructions to upgrade the Master Server.

4. Identify any servers that are running Remote Agents and Local Distributors on operating systems that are not supported by the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0. See, Supported Operating Systems

5. Upgrade those servers to an operating system that is supported by N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0.

6. Complete the instructions to upgrade the Remote Agents and Local Distributors.

   See, Upgrading Remote Agents and Local Distributors

7. CLI Clients do not need to be upgraded. Simply install the 5.0 version of the CLI Client and uninstall the 4.1 version.