Upgrade > Post-upgrade tasks

Post-upgrade tasks

This section describes the tasks that may be required after upgrading to SA 10.51.

Upgrade SA Agents

You should now upgrade the SA Agents installed on managed servers as described in the SA Agent Management section in Use.

You are not required to upgrade the agents, but in order to take advantage of the latest functionality that may have been added in the new release, agents must be upgraded. If you continue using an older agent, certain new functionality may not be available on the server managed by that agent.

OS Provisioning build manager customizations

During the upgrade to SA10.51, the system configuration values for the OS Build manager (bm.reprovision_attributes_to_preserve) are updated with new required SA10.51 values.

If you modified the bm.reprovision_attributes_to_preserve values prior to the upgrade, your changes are lost during upgrade, therefore, you must modify bm.reprovision_attributes_to_preserve after upgrade to respecify your customized values.

If you do not respecify these custom values after upgrade, any Linux or Solaris managed servers you provision will lose the custom attributes assigned using the modified bm.reprovision_attributes_to_preserve values that existed before upgrade.

You can respecify your custom values by appending the custom attribute names and values that should be used during reprovisioning to bm.reprovision_attributes_to_preserve in the SA Client, under Administration > System Configuration > Configuration Parameters.

To modify this configuration parameter, in the SA Client click on Administration in the Navigation panel, expand System Configuration and select Configuration Parameters. In the list of SA components, select OS Build Manager. This displays the configuration parameters for this component.