After upgrading your databases, you can upgrade your enterprise and device servers. All services are upgraded with the same installer.
As part of the upgrade process, any previous versions of Avalanche installed locally will be uninstalled. Do not exit the uninstall dialog because this will corrupt the Avalanche upgrade.
Prior to beginning the upgrade process, Wavelink recommends the following actions:
• Perform an enterprise-wide deployment from My Enterprise.
• If you have Avalanche Remote Control, patch it to a version compatible with Avalanche 6.0. Patch files are available through the Wavelink Community.
• If your current databases are not local to where you will install Avalanche 6.0, ensure the database server is set up for remote access. To configure this, see Allowing Remote Access to the Database.
• If you are using Microsoft SQL Server currently and want the 6.0 databases to be on the same system, back up and restore the databases with different names in your existing installation of Microsoft SQL Server. During the Avalanche upgrade process, provide the server credentials to connect to and upgrade the new databases.
For more information on prerequisites for upgrading and a list of what is retained during upgrade, see Avalanche Upgrade Process.
To upgrade your enterprise server:
1 From the designated server, double-click the file you received to upgrade your enterprise server.
The Setup Wizard Welcome screen appears.
2 Select a language and click OK.
3 Select whether to install to the existing Avalanche directory or a new one and click Next.
4 Select Upgrade and the database server type you currently use.
5 Click Next.
The Select Components screen appears. By default, all components are selected. To upgrade mobile device servers on different computers, see Upgrading the Mobile Device Server.
6 Click Next.
7 Enter all requested SQL Server Credentials. If you backed up and restored your original databases under different names, provide the login credentials and names for the new databases. If you are upgrading from PostgreSQL to Microsoft SQL Server, it will first ask for PostgreSQL credentials and then the next screen will ask for credentials for migrating to Microsoft SQL Server. The password for PostgreSQL was set during your initial install of Avalanche 5.3. When connecting to PostgreSQL from a clone, type localhost as the Hostname.
8 Click Next to begin the upgrade process.
Once the upgrade process has begun, do not stop the installer unless instructed to do so by Wavelink support. Stopping the upgrade may result in the corruption of databases and loss of data.
A dialog appears, prompting you to uninstall your previous version of Avalanche.
9 Select the Remove option and click Next. Click Yes to verify.
10 Once the previous version of Avalanche is removed, the dialog closes. Click Finish to complete the upgrade process.
Upon completing the upgrade process, you will need to enter in your Avalanche licenses from the Web Console.
If a mobile device server is upgraded locally, it will appear in the Unassigned Server Locations region and must be reassigned to a folder.
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