When you want to install a newer version of an existing Identity Manager installation, you usually perform an upgrade. However, when the new version of Identity Manager does not provide an upgrade path for your existing data, you must perform a migration. NetIQ defines migration as the process for installing Identity Manager on a new server, then migrating the existing data to this new server.
In general, you can upgrade Identity Manager 4.0.2 Standard and Advanced Editions.
Identity Manager 4.0.2 Standard Edition:
If you currently have Identity Manager 4.0.2 Standard Edition, you can directly upgrade it to Identity Manager 4.5 Standard Edition. For more information, see Upgrading Identity Manager
in the NetIQ Identity Manager Standard Edition Quick Start Guide
.
To upgrade Identity Manager 4.0.2 Standard Edition to Identity Manager 4.5 Advanced Edition, choose one of the following approaches to complete the upgrade:
Upgrade Identity Manager 4.0.2 Standard Edition to Identity Manager 4.5 Standard Edition and then upgrade to Identity Manager 4.5 Advanced Edition. For more information, see Upgrading Identity Manager
in the NetIQ Identity Manager Standard Edition Quick Start Guide
.
Upgrade Identity Manager 4.0.2 Standard Edition to Identity Manager 4.0.2 Advanced Edition and then upgrade to Identity Manager 4.5 Advanced Edition. For more information, see Upgrading Identity Manager
in the NetIQ Identity Manager Standard Edition Quick Start Guide
.
Identity Manager 4.0.2 Advanced Edition: If you currently have Identity Manager 4.0.2 Advanced Edition, you can directly upgrade it to Identity Manager 4.5 Advanced Edition. For more information, see Section 50.1, Checklist for Upgrading Identity Manager.
In some cases you cannot perform an upgrade. Instead, you must perform a migration. For example:
Unsupported OS: If you previously installed Identity Manager on a server running an operating system that is no longer supported, you must perform a migration instead of an upgrade.
The following table provides information on the operating systems that supports migration or in-place upgrade.
|
Operating System |
In-Place Upgrade |
Migration |
|---|---|---|
|
SLES11 and12 |
Yes |
N/A |
|
RHEL 6.5 and 7.0 |
Yes |
N/A |
|
Windows 2012 |
Yes |
N/A |
|
Windows 2008 R2 |
No NOTE:In-place upgrade is supported only if you use the Remote Loader |
Yes |
Identity Manager 4.0.1 or older: If you currently have Identity Manager 4.0.1 or older with or without RBPM, you cannot perform a direct upgrade. You must complete the following action:
Upgrade to Identity Manager 4.0.2 Advanced Edition
Upgrade to Identity Manager 4.5 Advanced Edition
Migrate your roles-based data (identity applications). For more information, see Section 54.6, Upgrading the Identity Applications.
If you have multiple servers associated with a driver set, you can perform an upgrade or a migration on one server at a time. If you do not have time to upgrade the servers at the same time, the drivers continue to work with the different versions of Identity Manager until the upgrades for each server can be completed.
The Identity Manager engine is backward-compatible, so the Identity Manager 4.5 engine can run Identity Manager 4.0.2 drivers without problems.
IMPORTANT:If you enable features for drivers that are supported only on Identity Manager 4.5 or later, the drivers stop working on the servers with mixed versions. The older engines cannot handle the new functionality. This breaks the drivers until all servers are upgraded to Identity Manager 4.5 or later.