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Starting the Siebel Upgrade Wizard

Upgrades: All Siebel upgrades.

Environments: Development, production test, production.

Platforms: All platforms.

This topic is part of an upgrade process. See How to Perform a Siebel Database Upgrade.

The Upgrade Wizard calls drivers that execute SQL scripts against the Siebel Database. These scripts were created or populated when you ran the Database Server Configuration Utilities.

When the Upgrade Wizard encounters errors that prevent continuing the upgrade, it writes the errors to the log files and stops the upgrade. After you correct the problems causing the errors, you can restart the Upgrade Wizard. In most cases, the wizard resumes from where it stopped.

For more information on the Upgrade Wizard, see About the Siebel Upgrade Wizard and Driver Files.

Prerequisites for Restarting the Upgrade Wizard

If the Upgrade Wizard stops due to errors, verify that you have met these prerequisites before restarting the wizard:

• Carefully review the relevant log files to make sure that your upgrade has completed successfully up to that point.
• Back up your complete set of log files, from the beginning of the process to the point at which it stopped, to another directory.

  This maintains a complete record of your log files, and prevents your previous log files from being overwritten, which could prevent accurate diagnosis of the reason for the break in the upgrade.

• If you are continuing a previous and incomplete schema upgrade, do not change the Log Output Directory that you previously selected.
• If problems with your environment prevent the upgrade from restarting, you must restore the database from the prior base version (the version from which you are upgrading). For example, environment problems may occur when table creation fails due to a database problem (insufficient storage or network problems), which cause subsequent upgrade steps to fail.

  If you need to restore your database and restart the upgrade, delete or store the upgrade log files. The files are located in the following directory:

  Windows: SIEBEL_ROOT\log\PROCESS\output

  UNIX: $SIEBEL_ROOT/log/PROCESS/output

  Also delete the state.log file. It is located in the following directory:

  Windows: SIEBEL_ROOT\log\PROCESS\state

  UNIX: $SIEBEL_ROOT/log/PROCESS/state

To manually start the Upgrade Wizard

1. Navigate to the following directory:

   Windows: SIEBEL_ROOT\bin

   UNIX: $SIEBEL_ROOT/bin

2. Enter the following command:

   Windows: siebupg /m master_UPGRADEOPTION_ENVIRONMENT_VERSION.ucf

   UNIX: srvrupgwiz /m master_UPGRADEOPTION_ENVIRONMENT_VERSION.ucf

   where:

   _UPGRADEOPTION_ENVIRONMENT_VERSION is the portion of the upgrade configuration file name that lists upgrade mode, upgrade environment, and the Siebel release from which you are upgrading. The file is located in SIEBEL_ROOT\bin (UNIX: $SIEBEL_ROOT/bin).

   For example, to start a development upgrade from Siebel 7.0.4 under Windows, enter the following command:

   siebupg /m master_upgrep_dev_704.ucf

3. To begin the upgrade, click OK (Windows) or click ENTER (UNIX).

   The Upgrade Wizard will notify you when the upgrade process is complete.

Related Topics

Stopping the Siebel Upgrade Wizard