Starting the Siebel Upgrade Wizard

Environments: Development, Test and Production.

The Siebel Upgrade Wizard executes the upgrade of the Siebel database. It takes a primary upgrade configuration file as input. This file contains environment information and a driver file name. The Upgrade Wizard executes the steps in the driver file to perform the upgrade.

As the Upgrade Wizard performs the steps in the driver file, it lists the steps in a state log. The state log is located in siebsrvr/LOG/ process/state, where process is the upgrade process, for example upgrep_prod_811 (upgrade from 8.1.1, upgrep process, test or production environment).

If the Upgrade Wizard encounters an error and exits during an upgrade, then you can restart it after correcting the error. The Upgrade Wizard reads the state log and continues the upgrade from the last successfully completed step.

When you run the Database Configuration Utilities on Windows, they will prompt you if you want to start the Upgrade Wizard. When you run the Database Configuration Utilities on UNIX, you must start the Upgrade Wizard manually.