Flow of the Upgrade Within an Environment

The basic flow of the upgrade process is shown in the following image, and includes the following steps:

1. Upgrade the Infrastructure

   • Install Siebel software.

   • Upgrade 3rd party software.

   • Upgrade RDBMS.

2. Perform Preupgrade Tasks

3. Perform Upgrade Tasks (Development Environment), Perform Upgrade Tasks (Production Test Environment)Perform Upgrade Tasks (Production Environment)

   • Prepare application data.

   • Upgrade database (upgrep)

   • Upgrade repository and import seed data.

   • Prepare for repository merge.

   • Merge repository.

   • Run post-merge utilities.

   • Upgrade custom database schema (upgphys)

4. Perform Postupgrade Tasks

   • Set up environment.

   • Application administration tasks.

   • Application configuration tasks.

   • Test the system.

Note: In production test environment and production environment upgrades, the upgrep + upgphys steps are run together and there are several additional deployment steps.