Veritas Access Appliance 8.4 Upgrade Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.4)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360

Running an upgrade pre-check using the UI

The upgrade pre-check determines if the system is ready for an upgrade. Run the pre-check at the beginning of an upgrade to check for any potential problems that might result in an upgrade failure. If the pre-check fails, the upgrade cannot proceed. You must resolve the issues before you upgrade the cluster.

Note:

Veritas recommends that you perform a pre-check one week in advance to ensure that you have sufficient time to fix any issues that are discovered during the pre-check. Additionally, run the pre-check again a day prior to the planned upgrade.

To run a pre-check:

  1. Sign in to the Access Appliance UI using the following URL, if not already done so:

    https://console-ip:14161

    where console-ip is the management console IP address where the web interface is hosted.

  2. Navigate to Settings > Software management > Software update.

    The downloaded software update is displayed under Downloaded package files. To view the details about the software update click the package name.

  3. For the software update, click the Actions menu (vertical ellipsis) from the right side of the row in the UI and click Start pre-check.
  4. When you are prompted for confirmation, click Start pre-check.

    A notification is displayed on the top of the page. To monitor the progress of the pre-check operation, click View details. The pre-check takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. If the pre-check completes successfully, a notification about the pre-check completing successfully is displayed on the top of the page. If any issues are detected during the pre-check, an error notification is displayed on the top of the page. You can click View details on the View all activities pane to see the error details. The pre-check continues with the rest of the checks and shows all the issues that are encountered during the pre-check.

See Upgrading Access Appliance using the UI.