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Oracle Waveset 8.1.1 Upgrade

Step 1: Document Your Platform

To determine the best upgrade path, use the worksheets provided in Chapter 7, Assessment Worksheets to inventory the components of your current platform, including the following:

Note –

Verify that you are using the correct version of these components for the upgrade version that you want to install. Check Supported Software and Environments in Oracle Waveset 8.1.1 Release Notes for details.

Caution – Caution –

If you are using an Oracle repository, the Waveset repository DDL uses data types that are not properly handled by older Oracle JDBC drivers. The JDBC drivers in ojdbc14.jar do not properly read all of the columns in the log table.

You must upgrade to the ojdbc5.jar for JDK 5 drivers for Waveset to work properly.

Application Servers

Record the application server version, and note any additional patches or service packs. In addition, record the following:

Database Servers

Record the database server version, and note any additional patches or service packs.

Waveset Gateway

Verify which Waveset Gateway version you are running by performing the following steps:

  1. Open a command window and execute the following command on each of the Gateway servers: 


    gateway -v

  2. Record the results.

  3. Record the operating system version of each Gateway server.

    Note –

    The Gateway server version should always be the same as the Waveset version.

Java Runtime Environment

Record the currently installed JRE version required by the lh console. Also record the name of the vendor that supplied the installed JRE (for example, Sun, IBM, Oracle, and so on). When upgrading Waveset, you must use a JRE supplied by the same vendor.

Supported Resources

Record supported resource names and versions, and note any additional patches or service packs.

Web Servers

Record the Web server version, and note any additional patches or service packs.