Upgrade Order

ZENworks for Servers 3.x components must be upgraded independently to ZENworks 6.5 Server Management components. We recommend the following upgrade order:

1. Extend the Schema (required before upgrading any component).
2. Upgrade Policy and Distribution Services.
3. Upgrade Server Inventory (requires Policy and Distribution Services to be upgraded first).
4. Upgrade Remote Management.
5. Upgrade Management and Monitoring Services.

Upgrade Methods

There are two methods for upgrading the ZENworks for Servers 3.x components to ZENworks 6.5 Server Management:

• GUI Upgrade Wizard: For NetWare and Windows servers, various options in the wizard that you run from the Novell ZENworks 6.5 Server Management Program CD provide upgrading for each of the Server Management components.

  For all platforms, this method must be used to upgrade Distributor and Subscriber objects.

  For Linux and Solaris servers for the Policy and Distribution Services component, upgrading Distributors is done using a script, which detects an existing ZENworks for Servers version and provides the upgrade option. Distributor objects for Linux or Solaris Distributor servers must be upgraded first using the GUI upgrade program.

• Server Software Package: You can use the .cpk file available on the Novell ZENworks 6.5 Companion 2 CD to upgrade each of the Server Management components for the each of the supported operating systems (except for Distributor objects on Linux and Solaris servers). This method simply requires creation of Software Package Distributions to be sent to the Subscriber servers that you want to upgrade.

  This method does not upgrade Subscriber objects. That must be done using the GUI upgrade program.

IMPORTANT:  You must upgrade all of the ZENworks for Servers 3.x components that are installed on a server when you upgrade that server to ZENworks 6.5 Server Management. For example, if you upgrade ZENworks for Servers 3.x Policy and Distribution Services to ZENworks 6.5 Policy and Distribution Services, but do not upgrade its existing ZENworks 3.0.2 Server Inventory to version 6.5, then Server Inventory will not work on that server until you have upgraded it to version 6.5.

For issues dealing with interoperability between ZENworks 6.5 Server Management and ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management, see Interoperability.

To review what's new in ZENworks 6.5, see What's New in the ZENworks 6.5 Server Management Initial Release.

Upgrade Instructions

Continue with the applicable upgrade section:

• Policy and Distribution Services
• Server Inventory
• Remote Management
• Management and Monitoring Services
• Upgrading from ManageWise 2.7