Sybase 15.0.2 manual Upgrading high availability

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Upgrading high availability

Use “en” for the language_code or you may omit the parameter completely as “en” is the default.

Note Template XML should be upgraded on all Job Scheduler servers upgraded to Adaptive Server version 15.0.1. Do not install them on pre-15.0.1 servers or servers where Job Scheduler is not installed.

Upgrading high availability

Using the following steps to upgrade high availability-enabled Adaptive

Server in active-active configuration:

1 Drop the high availability companionship. On the secondary server, use isql:

sp_companion <primary_server_name>, "drop" go

2Use the cluster system command to stop monitoring resources associated with Adaptive Server on each cluster node.

3Follow the upgrade steps in “Upgrading to Adaptive Server 15.0.2” on page 68 to upgrade each of the Adaptive Servers separately.

4Run the new Adaptive Server installmaster script against the newly upgraded Adaptive Servers.

5Run the new Adaptive Server installhasvss script against the newly upgraded Adaptive Servers.

6In the new Adaptive Server installation area, follow the instructions in Using Sybase Failover in A High Availability System to configure the permission and ownership for $SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin/sybha and $SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/install/sybhauser.

7In the new Adaptive Server installation area, modify high availability-related files such as the RUN_server_file, and the SYBASE.csh and SYBASE.sh files, if those files are required on that cluster platform.

8Reconfigure each resource associated with Adaptive Server depending on platform-specific requirements. For example, on Veritas Cluster, the HAase resource properties, the RUN_server_file, and Sybase_home need to be updated.

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Sybase 15.0.2 manual Upgrading high availability

15.0.2 specifications

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