Cisco Cisco Prime Central 1.5.2 Installation Guide
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Cisco Prime Central RHEL Operating System Upgrade Guide
Preface
Introduction
The Operating System (OS) upgrade procedure supports Prime Central 1.5.1 customers to perform
upgrade of Operating System from RHEL 5.8 to 6.5 and inline upgrade from RHEL 6.5 to 6.7. This
upgrade procedure is supported in all the three configurations:
upgrade of Operating System from RHEL 5.8 to 6.5 and inline upgrade from RHEL 6.5 to 6.7. This
upgrade procedure is supported in all the three configurations:
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Local HA
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Geo HA(DR)
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Standalone
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the OS upgrade procedure are as follows:
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Verify the following check points before starting with the upgrade procedure:
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Ensure to have all the user passwords used for installation or upgrade of Prime Central version
1.5.1.
1.5.1.
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Download .iso files for RHEL 6.5 or RHEL 6.7 from Red Hat website.
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Download OSUpgradeScripts.tar from the below link, which will be used in subsequent
sections:
sections:
https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?i=!y&mdfid=286306701&softwareid=2844065
74&release=1.5.1.2&os=
74&release=1.5.1.2&os=
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Ensure that an additional secondary storage space is available to backup of Prime Central data
before starting with the RHEL 6.5 installation.
before starting with the RHEL 6.5 installation.
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Archive all the backups that are taken as part of OS upgrade procedure on a separate secondary
storage out of the server. Archiving of backups is required as the data will be erased after RHEL 6.5
re-installation.
storage out of the server. Archiving of backups is required as the data will be erased after RHEL 6.5
re-installation.
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Take the snapshot of the server as there is no support for rollback to RHEL 5.8 with Prime Central
1.5.1.
1.5.1.