55.4 Upgrading the Identity Manager Engine

After you upgrade the Remote Loader and the Roles Based Services, you can upgrade the Identity Manager Engine. The upgrade process updates the driver shim files that are stored in the file system on the host computer. The upgrade program does not detect the updated versions of Identity Manager Engine or Remote Loader on your system. It allows you to reinstall these components.

NOTE:When you upgrade Identity Manager engine or separately update a SAML method, iMonitor displays both present and not present status flags for SAML methods. You can ignore the not present status flag because eDirectory correctly uses the updated method. When the engine is upgraded, the upgrade process restarts eDirectory that internally takes care of using the updated SAML method. If you separately update a SAML method, manually restart the eDirectory server to use the updated SAML method.

55.4.1 Performing a Guided Upgrade

  1. Verify that the drivers are stopped. For more information, see Stopping the Drivers.

  2. Launch the installation program for Identity Manager engine:

    • Linux: IDMversion_Lin/products/IDM/install.bin

    • Windows: IDMversion_Win:\products\IDM\Windows\setup\idm_install.exe

  3. Select the language that you want to use for the installation.

  4. Read and accept the license agreement.

  5. To update the Identity Manager engine and driver shim files, select the following options:

    • Identity Manager Server

    • iManager Plug-ins for Identity Manager

    • Drivers

  6. Specify a user and the user password with administrative rights to eDirectory in LDAP format.

  7. Review the summary, then click Install.

  8. Read the installation summary, then click Done.

55.4.2 Performing a Silent Upgrade

To run a silent upgrade of the Identity Manager components, you must create a properties file with the parameters necessary to complete the upgrade. The installation kit provides a sample silent.properties file in the IDMversion\products\IDM\platform\setup directory.

To perform a silent upgrade:

  1. Copy the sample silent.properties file to the directory where you want to run the upgrade.

  2. Edit the silent.properties file. For more information, see Performing a Silent Installation.

  3. Ensure that the silent.properties file includes the following parameters:

    • EDIR_USER_NAME

    • EDIR_USER_PASSWORD

    • EDIR_NDS_CONF

    • EDIR_IP_ADDRESS

    • EDIR_NCP_PORT

    • METADIRECTORY_SERVER_SELECTED = True

  4. To start the upgrade process, enter one of the following commands from the directory containing the installation and silent.properties files:

    • Linux: ./install.bin -i silent -f silent.properties

    • Windows: idm_install.exe -i silent -f silent.properties