Introduction
op5 Monitor is upgraded in the same way as the other op5 products. If you have an op5 Appliance system you can read about the upgrade procedure in the op5 Appliance system manual.
This chapter will only cover how to upgrade an op5 Monitor.
We will learn how to upgrade with the
•Linux command yum
•tar.gz files you may download from our support site.
If you are upgrading from one main version to an other (eg. from version 4 to 5) you need to use the tar.gz files found at our support site.
When upgrading over more than one main version (eg. from version 3 to 5) you shall follow the Upgrade guide found at our support site:
To upgrade with yum
1 Login to the op5 Monitor server via ssh as the root user.
2 Check what packages that is pending for upgrade by execute:
yum check-update
3 If you want to apply the upgraded packages execute:
yum update
Before you start with the upgrade you need to make sure you have the login to the download sections at www.op5.com. Otherwise you will not be able to download the tar.gz files.
To create an account please go to http://www.op5.com/sign-in/
To upgrade with tar.gz files
2 Upload the tar.gz file to the op5 Monitor server.
3 Login to the op5 Monitor server via ssh as the root user.
4 Untar the tar.gz file in the root/ folder.
5 Go to the folder that was extracted from the tar.gz file.
6 Now start the upgrade by executing the following script:
./install.sh