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Upgrading the agent

You can only upgrade the HA agent for DB2 manually. The installvcs program does not automatically upgrade the VRTSvcsdb package.

To upgrade without saving previous configuration information is to disable the agent, remove it, and re-install it.

The steps to upgrade and re-use previous configuration information follow.

 To upgrade from DB2 agent 4.0 or 4.1

  1. Disable and remove the agent.
  2. From the disc that has the HA agent for DB2, add the new package.

    See Installing the DB2 UDB agent software.

  3. Copy the new "Db2udbTypes.cf" from the /etc/VRTSagents/ha/conf directory to the /etc/VRTSagents/ha/conf/config directory.
  4. Update the location of the Db2udbTypes.cf file in your main.cf file's include statement. For example, change this statement:

    include "Db2udbTypes.cf"

    To read:

    include "/etc/VRTSagents/ha/conf/config/DB2udbTypes.cf"

  5. To continue to use in-depth monitoring, use the custom monitoring sample script.

    See Handling DB2 error codes during in-depth monitoring.