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Operating Systems AIX Upgrading AIX Unix Post 42498 by Optimus_P on Thursday 30th of October 2003 09:52:31 AM
Old 10-30-2003
Re: Upgrading AIX Unix

Quote:
Originally posted by Erik Rooijmans
Hi all,

I've got a question about an OS upgrade.
I'm planning to do a upgrade from AIX UNIX 4.3.2 to 4.3.3 in a few weeks.
I haven't got that much information.
Could someone give me some general tips or hints, things I should think of before? Things I should know, or general errors.

I know this question is a bit weird maybe,

But any tips or hints are welcome,

Thanks in advance!

ErikSmilie
Erik,

I moved your topic over here since it is AIX specific. Hopefully you will get a better response too.

I actually did this upgrade to a couple of our production servers last winter.

It is really stright forward, just make sure you have plenty of backups and mksysb on hand just incase you need to roll back. I took 3 mksysb's and 3 misc backups. befor i started the upgrade.

You might want to also make sure your microcode is also uptodate since you are also upgradeing your OS.

If you are running any "outside" vendor software i would make sure your upgrade is commpatable w/ their software.

Lastly. and MOST IMPORTANT.

Code:
IBM AIX V4.3 end of service is 2 months away

IBM AIX V4.3 end of service is only 2 months away.
Installation support, field support, direct customer
support, and program services for AIX V4.3 will be
withdrawn on December 31, 2003.

Most customers have completed their upgrades to AIX 5L. If
you are still in the process of migrating, we recommend you
complete the transition as soon as possible.

For those customers who must remain on AIX V4.3.3 beyond
the end of service date, IBM is offering a limited fee-
based extension that will provide installation support,
field support, direct customer support, and program
services to be available beginning January 1, 2004 and
ending no sooner than December 31, 2004. This offering is
available only under special bid arrangements. Contact your
local IBM sales office or business partner.

IBM announced the end of service for AIX 4.3 on March 25, 2003.
See IBM Offering Information annoucement.

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DH_SYSTEMD_START(1)						     Debhelper						       DH_SYSTEMD_START(1)

NAME
       dh_systemd_start - start/stop/restart systemd unit files

SYNOPSIS
       dh_systemd_start [debhelperoptions] [--restart-after-upgrade] [--no-stop-on-upgrade] [unitfile...]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_systemd_start is a debhelper program that is responsible for starting/stopping or restarting systemd unit files in case no corresponding
       sysv init script is available.

       As with dh_installinit, the unit file is stopped before upgrades and started afterwards (unless --restart-after-upgrade is specified, in
       which case it will only be restarted after the upgrade).  This logic is not used when there is a corresponding SysV init script because
       invoke-rc.d performs the stop/start/restart in that case.

OPTIONS
       --restart-after-upgrade
	   Do not stop the unit file until after the package upgrade has been completed.  This is the default behaviour in compat 10.

	   In earlier compat levels the default was to stop the unit file in the prerm, and start it again in the postinst.

	   This can be useful for daemons that should not have a possibly long downtime during upgrade. But you should make sure that the daemon
	   will not get confused by the package being upgraded while it's running before using this option.

       --no-restart-after-upgrade
	   Undo a previous --restart-after-upgrade (or the default of compat 10).  If no other options are given, this will cause the service to
	   be stopped in the prerm script and started again in the postinst script.

       -r, --no-stop-on-upgrade, --no-restart-on-upgrade
	   Do not stop service on upgrade.

       --no-start
	   Do not start the unit file after upgrades and after initial installation (the latter is only relevant for services without a
	   corresponding init script).

NOTES
       Note that this command is not idempotent. dh_prep(1) should be called between invocations of this command (with the same arguments).
       Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.

       Note that dh_systemd_start should be run after dh_installinit so that it can detect corresponding SysV init scripts. The default sequence
       in dh does the right thing, this note is only relevant when you are calling dh_systemd_start manually.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7)

AUTHORS
       pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

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