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Activating an Upgrade Kit

After you define the upgrade kits for an upgrade, you must activate each upgrade kit. The status of an upgrade kit must be Pending before activating it. Activating an upgrade kit gathers the files to be included in the upgrade kit and compresses them into a single archive on the Siebel File System. It also sets the status of the upgrade kit to Active.

This task is a step in Process of Completing Upgrade Kit Creation.

To activate an upgrade kit

1. Navigate to the Administration - Siebel Anywhere screen, then the Upgrade Kits view.

   The Upgrade Kits view appears.

2. Select the upgrade kit you want to activate.

   The Status field must show that it is Pending.

3. Click Activate.

   A dialog box appears indicating activation is in progress.

   If you are activating a large upgrade kit, such as a repository file (SRF) upgrade kit, then your browser might be unresponsive for a few minutes after you click Activate. The delay in response occurs because the browser must wait for a reply from the server before proceeding. During the wait, no hourglass is displayed. When the browser receives the server's reply, the Status field changes to Active.

4. Repeat Step 2 and Step 3 to activate each upgrade kit required for your upgrade.

NOTE:  Activating the upgrade kit does not affect the version information stored in the database. Activating an upgrade kit populates the File Size field for that upgrade kit. The upgrade kit is not available to subscribers until it has been applied and distributed.

When you activate the upgrade kit, the upgrade kit items you see in this view turn into item entries in the upgrade.ucf file, which is part of every Siebel Anywhere upgrade kit.