Upgrading the Windows FSE server

Starting	FSE	Resource Manager:	[	OK	]
Starting	FSE	Management Interface:	[	OK	]

2.Update the FileSystemID parameter in each FSE partition configuration file as follows: a. Invoke the following command:

#fsepartition --showPartitionName >ConfigurationFile

a.In the file ConfigurationFile, locate the parameters Client and FileSystemID. The following is an example excerpt from an FSE partition configuration file:

Client "FSE_client_01"

{

FileSystemID = 58:5 # e.g. 58:1, Linux or HP-UX client

b.In the appropriate report that you stored in step 1 of the procedure in section ”Upgrading the operating system on Linux hosts” on page 56, and which belongs to the consolidated FSE system or the external FSE client on which the FSE partition is located, in the above example FSE_client_01, locate the line with the Major:Minor value for this HSM file system:

lvscan -- ACTIVE

"/dev/vg_fse02/hsmfs03" [5.86 GB] 58:5

c.On the consolidated FSE system or the external FSE client, run the command following command, where DeviceFileSymlink is the symbolic link that is displayed in the stored report:

#ls -laDeviceFileSymlink

For the above example, the command output is:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 17 09:12 /dev/vg_fse02/hsmfs03 -> /dev/mapper/vg_fse02-hsmfs03

d.In the file ConfigurationFile that you saved in substep a of this step, configure the parameter FileSystemID with DeviceFilePathname that the symbolic link points to.

For the above example, the new value of FileSystemID is:

/dev/mapper/vg_fse02-hsmfs03

e.On the consolidated FSE system or the FSE server, invoke the following command:

#fsepartition --modifyPartitionName ConfigurationFile

3.If you are performing this procedure on the consolidated FSE system, proceed as follows:

a.In the local file /etc/fstab, make all entries related to the local HSM file systems active again: remove the commenting characters that you added in step 3 of the procedure in section ”Upgrading the operating system on Linux hosts” on page 56.

b.Run the fse --restartcommand to restart the FSE server processes:

#fse --restart

For information on how to upgrade the Windows FSE server, see the FSE installation guide for Windows, chapter ”Upgrading from previous FSE releases”.

Upgrading Linux FSE clients

On each external FSE client running on a Linux platform, you have to upgrade the installed previous FSE product to release 3.4 and manually start the FSE client processes afterwards.

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