Starting the Siebel Upgrade Wizard

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: All environments

This topic is part of an upgrade process. See Performing a Siebel Database Upgrade.

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 filename. 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_dev_811 (upgrade from 8.1.1, upgrep process, development environment).

If the Upgrade Wizard encounters an error and exits during an upgrade, 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 Wizard under Windows, you are prompted to indicate whether or not you want to start the Upgrade Wizard. When you run the Database Configuration Wizard under UNIX, you must start the Upgrade Wizard manually. For more information on the Siebel Upgrade Wizard, see About the Siebel Upgrade Wizard and Driver Files.