Upgrading Requirements

When upgrading any of the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System applications, the new server on which you install the 5.0 application must meet the following requirements:

• Operating System – The operating system on which you run the 5.0 application must be the same type of operating system on which you were running the 4.1 application. For example, you can migrate a Master Server running on Red Hat Linux 7.2 to a Master Server running on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.0. You cannot migrate a Master Server running on Red Hat Linux 7.2 to a Master Server running on any version of the Solaris OS.

• Hardware Architecture – The hardware architecture of the server on which you run the 5.0 application must be the same as the architecture on which you were running the 4.1 application. For example, you can upgrade a Remote Agent from a SPARC based server running on the Solaris OS to another SPARC based server running on the Solaris OS. You cannot upgrade a Remote Agent from a SPARC based server running on the Solaris OS to an x86 based server running on the Solaris OS.

• User Ownership of Application – The 5.0 application must be owned by the same user that owns the 4.1 application. For example, if you installed the 4.1 Master Server and assigned ownership to user foo, then the 5.0 Master Server must have user foo assigned as its owner.