If planning a skip-level upgrade, be sure to also review the upgrade notes in the following sections. Upgrade notes for subsequent versions of Identity Manager also apply to your upgrade.
If you are upgrading from version 7.0 and using LocalFiles, you must export all of your data before upgrading and then re-import the data after doing a clean installation of 8.1. (ID-15366)
There may be ItemNotFound Exceptions in the upgrade log due to Identity Manager Service Provider Edition (SPE) objects being renamed to Identity Manager Service Provider. (ID-18860)
If your installation contains a Remedy resource, you must place Remedy API libraries in the directory where the Gateway is installed. These libraries can be found on the Remedy server.