Red Carpet Enterprise 1.4.x

Before you upgrade from Red Carpet Enterprise 1.4.x, review the following:

• We recommend upgrading your Red Carpet Enterprise 1.4.x clients to the latest version before installing ZENworks Linux Management. By upgrading your clients before the server, you can use the instapull feature of your Red Carpet Enterprise 1.4 server to upgrade your clients rather than upgrading them individually. The following upgrade procedure contains instructions on performing this operation.
• Due to database incompatibilities between PostgreSQL 7.2 and 7.3, your database must be dumped and reloaded. The following upgrade procedure contains instructions on performing this operation.
• This upgrade process works only from Red Carpet Enterprise 1.4.3 or 1.4.4. If you are running a previous 1.4 version, upgrade to version 1.4.4 before upgrading to ZENworks 6.6.2 Linux Management.
• Autopull sessions and report history are not carried over to ZENworks 6.6.2 Linux Management. Transactions and reports are significantly more powerful in the new version, which makes importing unfeasible.

To upgrade to ZENworks 6.6.2 Linux Management, complete the following:

1. Upgrade your client systems from version 1.4.x to the ZENworks 6.6.2 Linux Management client.

   IMPORTANT:  Do not restart your clients until after you have finished the server upgrade

   1. Add the updated ZENworks Linux Management client to a channel on your Red Carpet Enterprise 1.4 server, then install the rug, rcd, and rcd-modules packages on your client systems. This can be done using the instapull feature.

      These packages are located on your ZENworks Linux Management Installation CD, or they can be retrieved from the Ximian Premium Server (https://web-box-ma-us.rc.ximian.com) using rcmirror, by adding redcarpet2 to the list of mirrored channels. For details on rcmirror, see rcmirror.

      They are also available at the Ximian Red Carpet FTP site (ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet2).

2. Backup the Red Carpet Enterprise server database:

   1. Verify that there is sufficient space on the file system containing the PostgreSQL database using the following command:

      du -sH /var/lib/pgsql/data

      You need approximately double the current size of your database (if your database is currently 50 MB, ensure you have at least 100 MB on the file system)

   2. Become root using the su command.

   3. Stop your PostgreSQL server using the following command:

      /etc/init.d/postgresql stop

   4. Relocate the PostgreSQL database using the following command:

      mv /var/lib/pgsql/data /var/lib/pgsql/data-postgres-72x

3. Complete the instructions in Installing and Configuring your ZENworks Linux Management Server to upgrade your server to version 6.6.2.

4. After the upgrade is completed, run the following command to upgrade your database:

   /usr/sbin/rce-init -f

5. Run the upgrade script with the database dump using the following command:

   /usr/sbin/rce-upgrade /root/rce-server-14-db-dump.pg

Your Red Carpet Enterprise server is now upgraded.