14.8 Understanding the Upgrade Service

The Upgrade service runs as a service loaded by the Service Manager and performs the following functions:

  1. Migrates ZENworks for Servers 3.0.2 database to ZENworks 7 Server Management database.

  2. Converts the ZENworks for Servers 3.0.2 residue .str files to ZENworks 7 SP1 Server Management with SP1 .str files.

The Upgrade service corrects the Inventory database schema and information to make it compatible with ZENworks 7 Server Management with SP1 and ZENworks 7 Desktop Management. The Upgrade service performs all the functions in a state-driven method. This is to make sure that the Upgrade service does not execute the same steps when one step is executed successfully. The Upgrade service runs as an uninterrupted service. Therefore, you cannot manually stop the Upgrade service. The Upgrade service stops automatically after completing all its functions.

The Database migration activity is additionally traced into a migration log, which could be found in the installation_path\zenworks\inv\server\wminv\logs\migrationlogs directory.