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Updating Identity Manager

Use the following procedures to prepare for upgrading your current Identity Manager installation. For full upgrade information see Identity Manager Upgrade.


Prepare for Update

Before updating your Identity Manager installation, you should perform these tasks:

Assess Your Current Identity Manager Installation

It is important to understand what Identity Manager version, hotfixes and service packs have been installed prior to updating. Use the following utilities to list and record your installation information:

inventory

installed


Note  These commands became available in the 2005M3Q1 release and are not present in earlier releases.

Both commands are accessed by entering:

lh assessment


Note  These commands work only for releases, services packs, and hotfixes greater than 5.0 SP4.

inventory

The inventory command inspects the file system for files that were added or deleted to the system based on the files packaged in the release. It is only able to determine which files are changed based on the manifest shipped with Identity Manager.

Usage

inventory [option] [options]...

Options

Option

Function

Description

-h

help

Display usage.

-a

added

Display only added files.

-d

deleted

Display only deleted files.

-m

modified

Display only modified files.

-u

unchanged

Display only unchanged files.

installed

The installed command searches the patches directory for manifests and displays versions from those filenames.

Usage

installed [option] [option]...

Options

Option

Function

Description

-h

help

Display usage.

-r

releases

Display only installed releases.

-s

servicepacks

Display only installed service packs.

-h

hotfixes

Display only installed hotfixes.



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