6.4 Cancel and Restart Auto Site Upgrade

When an Auto Site Upgrade is initiated, several tasks are created to manage the upgrade of the individual server groups as well as the servers within the server groups. These tasks can be monitored and managed by navigating to Status & Manage select Tasks and click Active Tasks.

The main site upgrade controller task is identified by the naming convention <site_name> Site Upgrade. In Site Upgrade Monitoring, the main task is task ID 1.

Figure 6-10 Site Upgrade Active Tasks

To cancel the site upgrade, select the site upgrade task and click Cancel. A screen asks you to confirm the cancel operation. The status changes from running to completed. The Results Details column updates to display Site upgrade task canceled by user. All server group upgrade tasks, which are under the control of the main site upgrade task, immediately transition to completed state. However the site upgrade cancellation has no effect on the individual server upgrade tasks that are in progress. These tasks continue to completion. Figure 6-11 shows the Active Task screen after a site upgrade has been canceled.

Once the site upgrade task is canceled, it cannot be restarted. However, a new site upgrade can be started using the Upgrade Administration screen.

After user has canceled the task. The servers, which were in progress when the upgrade was canceled, continued to upgrade to the target release.

Figure 6-11 User Canceled the Site Upgrade Tasks

Figure 6-11 represents a site upgrade that was canceled before the site was completely upgraded. The servers that were in progress when the upgrade was canceled continued to upgrade to the target release. These servers are now in the Accept or Reject state. The servers that were pending when the upgrade was canceled are now in the Ready state, ready to be upgraded.

To restart the upgrade, verify the Entire Site link is selected and click Site Upgrade. The Upgrade Site Initiate screen displays.

Figure 6-12 Partially Upgraded Site

On the Upgrade Site Initiate screen, the servers that have not yet been upgraded are grouped into the number of cycles that are required to complete the site upgrade. As an example, Figure 6-12 shows the upgrade that was canceled and only three cycles are needed since the availability requirements can be met by the servers that have already been upgraded. Once an ISO is selected and the OK button is clicked, the site upgrade continues normally.

Figure 6-13 Restarting Site Upgrade