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Identifying Configurations to Deliver Upgrade Components

A Siebel Anywhere configuration is a definition of the setup used by a particular set of Siebel Anywhere subscribers, such as Siebel Call Center Clients or Siebel Sales Clients. A configuration associates a particular set of Siebel Anywhere subscribers with the specific set of upgrade components that those subscribers need to have managed and maintained. Each Siebel subscriber belongs to an individual Siebel Anywhere configuration that includes a specific set of components.

As part of the process of planning your upgrade, you must make sure that your Siebel implementation contains configurations that are related to the components you want to upgrade. You must also make sure that those configurations can be used to distribute the upgrade to the appropriate subscribers, whether those subscribers represent servers or clients.

The following procedure provides instructions for listing existing configurations and inspecting the components to which they are related.

To display available Siebel Anywhere configurations and their related components

  1. From the application-level menu, select Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Siebel Anywhere.
  2. From the link bar, select Upgrade Configurations.
  3. In the Upgrade Configurations list, select a configuration that you want to inspect, and then click the Upgrade Components view tab.

    The Upgrade Components list displays the components that are currently associated with the selected configuration. Table 6 describes some of the fields in this list.

Table 6. Selected Fields in the Upgrade Components List
Field
Comments

Name

Name of the component. Only single-byte, alphanumeric characters, blank space, underscore, and dash are allowed. Component names may not include special characters like periods or other invalid characters such as slash, asterisk, pipe, question mark, colon, quotes, or angle brackets.

Min Version

Minimum version required for the component on the client's system.

If the client uses a version of the component that is less than the minimum, the client must upgrade or the application runs in read-only mode.

Max Version

Maximum version allowed for the component on the client's system.

If clients use a version of the component that is between the minimum and maximum, they can still use the application in read/write mode without installing an upgrade kit, even if the upgrade kit is required.

Clients can access the system if their local version is higher than the maximum version for the component.

NOTE:  Siebel 7.8 does not include a Required At Startup field in the Upgrade Components list. In Siebel 7.0, version checking was done automatically only if a Required at Startup parameter was checked for the particular component in question. Beginning with Siebel 7.5, every component receives automatic version checking.

The following procedure provides instructions for listing the subscribers who are dynamically assigned to a selected configuration. The procedure does not list subscribers who are assigned to a particular configuration by means of a CFG file setting.

To list employees who are dynamically associated with a configuration

  1. From the application-level menu, select Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Siebel Anywhere > Upgrade Configurations > Employees.
  2. In the Upgrade Configurations list, select the configuration for which you want to view dynamically assigned employees.

    The Employees list displays the employees who are dynamically assigned to the selected configuration. Employees who are assigned to the configuration through their CFG file values are not listed.

If you find that existing configurations do not meet your current upgrade needs, see Modifying and Creating Siebel Anywhere Configurations for information on how to modify existing configurations or create new configurations.

    
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