6 Performing an Out-of-Place Upgrade of Oracle Internet Directory

When upgrading Oracle Internet Directory, you migrate your existing directory data from an 11g Oracle Internet Directory instance to a newly installed 12c Oracle Internet Directory instance. This is a one time operation.

Note:

• It is not supported to have a replication agreement between different releases of Oracle Internet Directory. So, after the data is moved, it will be kept in sync between the primary and the standby systems.
• You can also use this procedure to migrate Oracle Internet Directory from one environment to another.

Complete the following steps to export the directory data from the 11g Oracle Internet Directory applications in the source environment and import the data into the 12c Oracle Internet Directory applications:

• Pre-Upgrade Assessment
  
• Set the Source Directory to Read-Only Mode
  
• Exporting the Required Data from the Source Directory
  
• Loading the Data