7 Upgrading Oracle Traffic Director

This chapter provides information about upgrading Oracle Traffic Director from 11.1.1.6.0 to 11.1.1.7.0.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section 7.1, "Preparing to Upgrade Oracle Traffic Director"

• Section 7.2, "Upgrade Procedure"

• Section 7.3, "Post-Upgrade Steps"

7.1 Preparing to Upgrade Oracle Traffic Director

Before upgrading Oracle Traffic Director, perform the following steps:

• Stop the administration server and all the instances across all nodes.

  Use the following command to stop the administration server:

  > $INSTANCE_HOME/admin-server/bin/stopserv
  

  Use the following command from within the instance directory to stop the instances:

  > $INSTANCE_HOME/net-config_name/bin/stopserv
  

• Perform the following step only if you had used the configure-server command as root for configuring your existing 11.1.1.6.0 installation, and if the current INSTANCE_HOME location is the same as ORACLE_HOME.

  Oracle Traffic Director 11.1.1.6.0 now requires that configuration files for the administration server, administration nodes and instances are kept separate. Hence before upgrading Oracle Traffic Director from 11.1.1.6.0 to 11.1.1.7.0, ownership of the files in the following directories must be changed to that of the user installing Oracle Traffic Director:

  • ORACLE_HOME

  • ORACLE_HOME/bin (recursively)

  • ORACLE_HOME/lib (recursively)

7.2 Upgrade Procedure

The steps for upgrading Oracle Traffic Director from 11.1.1.6.0 to 11.1.1.7.0 are the same as the steps for installing Oracle Traffic Director. While performing the upgrade process, make sure that the installation location that you provide is the same as the 11.1.1.6.0 location. For more information, see Chapter 4, "Installing Oracle Traffic Director."

7.3 Post-Upgrade Steps

After upgrading Oracle Traffic Director from 11.1.1.6.0 to 11.1.1.7.0, you must rotate the logs for all instances, including the administration server.

After starting the administration server, run the following command:

$INSTANCE_HOME/admin-server/bin/rotate

Similarly, after starting all the Oracle Traffic Director instances, rotate the logs for each instance by running the following command:

$INSTANCE_HOME/net-config_name/bin/rotate