Cisco Cisco Prime Central 1.2 Installation Guide

You can upgrade from:

Prime Central 1.1 to 1.2

Prime Central 1.1.0.1 to 1.2

Prime Central 1.1.0.2 to 1.2

The upgrade to Prime Central 1.2 does the following automatically:

Backs up the embedded database, if present.

Stops the Prime Central portal and Prime Central integration layer.

Backs up the previous installation directory.

Upgrades the Prime Central portal and Prime Central integration layer.

Starts the Prime Central portal and Prime Central integration layer. 

You must upgrade Prime Central before upgrading the Fault Management component.

If you are using an external database, you must back it up manually. You must also create the following directory under 
ORACLE_HOME for the PSI integration, and make the owner oracle:

If you are using an embedded (local or remote) database, it is recommended (but not required) that you back it up manually 
before upgrading.

You must upgrade the server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 to 5.8 before upgrading Prime Central.

The upgrade steps are the same for both single- and dual-server setups. In a dual-server setup, complete the following 
procedure on the Prime Central portal server first; then, repeat the procedure on the Prime Central integration layer server.

Use one of the following to connect to the server where you want to upgrade Prime Central:

VNC (recommended)—See 

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X server—For this option, Reflection X is recommended. See 

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As the root user, launch a terminal on the server where you want to upgrade Prime Central. (If you logged in as a 
nonroot user, enter the su - command to become the root user.)

The C shell (csh) is recommended. To start the C shell, enter: 

If you are using X server, continue to 

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If you are using VNC, skip to 

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Set the DISPLAY variable:

 hostname-or-IP-address:0.0

Verify that the display is set correctly:

In the command output, you should see:

hostname-or-IP-address:0.0