Installing Unica Discover involves planning and preparing your environment, installing and configuring prerequisite software, obtaining the Unica Discover installation files, and running the Unica Discover installer.
After you complete the upgrade, you should complete the following tasks, if you did not do so already.
The objective of the upgrade is to minimize downtime and data loss. The recommended approach is to suspend the processing components, letting data spool to disk while the Data Collector collects any unaggregated statistical data. The system can then be upgraded. When it is restarted, it will attempt to work off the spooled data until it catches up.
If you are deploying new hardware in conjunction with your upgrade, please complete the upgrade in the following general steps.
If you have customized your configuration by modifying the web.config file, running the Upgrader does not affect your customization.
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To upgrade your Unica Discover solution, review the entire process before you commence the upgrade. The process that you follow varies depending on the number of servers that are deployed in your Unica Discover solution.
This section describes how to upgrade Discover software on an individual server. You must repeat this basic process on each Windows-based Discover server in the environment and make adjustments to the process as needed.
This section describes the general process for upgrading an All-In-One Discover server. In these configurations, all Discover components are installed on the same physical system.
The steps in this upgrade process provide a generalized outline for how to complete an upgrade of a sophisticated multi-machine installation of Discover. For these types of upgrades, services must be stopped in a specific order after which individual Discover servers must be upgraded in the order that is listed.
This section describes how to upgrade the Discover databases to the latest version of Discover.
After performing the upgrade, complete the following tasks:
Complete the steps listed here to update the Discover Application Pool settings in Microsoft™ Internet Information Services (IIS).
If you printed and annotated the Preparing to Upgrade page, you may want to review the print out to identify the items that may require follow up after upgrade.
From time to time, Discover may publish patches to official builds to address specific issues.
Review the following logs for error messages.
Discover recommends setting the Recovery Model for all Discover databases to Simple.
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The following files enable you to specify configurations specific to your instance of the Portal web application.
There are several post-upgrade cleanup tasks to do on the Replay server.
If you did no do so already, start all Discover services on all upgraded servers.
Before you begin making modifications to your event definitions, you may want to perform an event model backup, which can be used to restore event definitions to a previous state.
After you upgraded all Discover servers with the appropriate software, you can use the following steps to verify basic Discover operations through the Discover Portal.
After you complete installation and the initial configuration tasks for each licensed Discover product and module, verify the operations of your Discover solution. This section provides a simple procedure for testing end-to-end operations of the Discover solution, with modifications based on optional components that you may have installed.
Transfer all backups that you made before the upgrade to a safe and permanent location.