Make sure your system meets the hardware requirements set out in Chapter 2, System Requirements for the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2, in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide.
To install the patches that comprise this update release of the N1 Service Provisioning System, you must already have installed and configured a compatible previous release or patch update of the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System. Compatible previous releases and patch updates are as follows:
N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2
N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2.1 Patch Update
N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2.2 Patch Update
N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2.3 Patch Update
For full details of how to install the N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide. Details on how to install the patch updates can be found in the relevant patch documentation.
If you do not already have a compatible version of the N1 Service Provisioning System installed and configured on your system, download and install the n1_sps-5_2_1-ga-solaris-x86.zip file from the Sun's Software Portfolio download page.
For full details of how to install the N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2.1, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide
Then, to bring N1 Service Provisioning System to the 5.2 Update 2 level, install the following patches:
122990-12 for the Master Server
122992-12 for the Command Line Interface
After you apply the patches to the master server, update all the remote agents and local distributors in your environment.
To auto-upgrade, log in to the patched master server. Go to the master server's host detail page and choose Upgrade Entire Host Network.
You can also execute a selective upgrade using the node.* commands. See Chapter 9, node: CLI Commands for Performing Auto-upgrade Tasks, in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Command-Line Interface Reference Manual for more information.
This release of the N1 Service Provisioning System contains scripts that migrate your master server from compatible previous releases and patch updates to run the N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Update 2 Release.
Only the Command Line Interface patch provided with this release can communicate as a command line interface with the master server patch provided with this release. If you upgrade your master server, you must also upgrade your Command Line Interface.