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Upgrade from Previous Releases

The following sections provide information on how to upgrade from previous Guardian releases:

 

Before You Start

Before you upgrade from a previous release, verify that you have completed the following tasks before proceeding:

 

Install and Run the Upgrade Plug-in

To upgrade from previous Guardian releases, you must install and run the Upgrade Plug-in to complete the upgrade procedure. The Upgrade Plug-in imports your Guardian existing Workspace into a current Guardian workspace and updates the Guardian Registry.

To install and run the Upgrade Plug-in, do the following:

  1. Download the Guardian Upgrade Plug-in from the Oracle OTN web site.
    1. Download the following file:

      2. com.bea.guardian.ui.importing_1.0.0.jar

      This is a plug-in for importing your previous Guardian Registry into the new Guardian Registry.

  2. Copy the plug-in JAR into the plugins directory in your Guardian installation.

    3. Copy the com.bea.guardian.ui.importing_1.0.0.jar file to the following directory:

    <Guardian_Root>\guardian\plugins\

    Where:

    <Guardian_Root> is the Guardian installation root directory.

  3. Start the Guardian User Interface.

    4. You can start the BEA Guardian User Interface (GUI) from either the Windows Start menu, or by invoking the guardian.exe executable in your Guardian installation directory. For details, see Launching Guardian.

    Guardian first displays the initial splash screen while loading, and then displays the Select Workspace dialog box.

  4. Select or create the folder (directory) to use as your Guardian Workspace folder.

    5. IMPORTANT: For this upgrade procedure, do not accept the default location. Also, make sure this directory is not located within the Guardian installation directory, and is in a different location than your previous Guardian Workspace.

    To use an existing folder: Browse to the folder location and select the folder.

    To create a new folder:

    1. Click Make New Folder.
    2. Select the location for the folder.
    3. Enter the name of the folder
    4. Click OK.

      5. This creates or selects the folder and returns to the Select Workspace dialog box.

  5. (Optional) Specify this as the default Workspace.

    6. If you do not want to select the Workspace each time you start Guardian, select the checkbox for Use this as the default workspace and do not ask again. This is particularly useful to prevent accidentally accepting the default Workspace, and having to reconstruct or reimport your Workspace data. For the purposes of this upgrade, it is recommended that you select this option until the upgrade is complete. You can change this setting at a later time by selecting Prompt for workspace on startup in the Guardian Preferences configuration page. For instructions, open the Guardian Online Help and select Tasks > Workspaces > Select Workspace.

  6. Click Finish.

    7. Guardian creates the new Workspace and starts Guardian.

  7. Import your previous Guardian Workspace to the new Workspace.

    8. In the Guardian User Interface, do the following:

    1. Select File > Import to open the Import wizard.
    2. In the folder tree, open the Guardian folder and select Guardian 1.0 Workspace.
    3. Click Next to proceed to the Select 1.0 Installation page.
    4. Click Browse to open a file browser from which you can select your Guardian 1.0 installation directory.
    5. Click OK to select the directory and return to the Select 1.0 Installation page.
    6. Click Next to proceed to the Select 1.0 Workspaces page.
    7. Select a Workspace and click Finish.

      8. Guardian proceeds to import the selected Workspace. This may take a few seconds to complete.

  8. Restart Guardian.

    9. Restart Guardian to automatically add the domains from the imported Workspace to the Domain Explorer tree. Until you restart Guardian, the imported data will not be displayed in the Navigation Pane Explorers.

The installation is now complete, and you can use Guardian to evaluate your environment.

Check Product Configuration

You can use the Product Configuration page to check the current configuration for a Guardian installation.

To check the current Guardian configuration, do the following:

  1. Select Help > Manage Guardian to open the Product Configuration page.
  2. In the Product Configuration tree (left pane), expand the Guardian folder and subfolders.
  3. Check the version numbers for each item.

 

What’s Next?

You are now ready to start and use Guardian. See Launching Guardian.


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