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transaction data as well as all customised data.

Cheers

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-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jiri Pospisil
Sent: November-21-12 11:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AR System & ITSM Upgrades (we are WAY behind)

Hi,

After being through upgrade from 7.0.1 to 7.6.03, I would strongly recommend 
considering a different strategy.
Rather than spending tons of time making the upgrade scripts work, I would 
recommend building a fresh version 8 environment, recreate your customisations 
and then invest time in defining procedure for data migration.
With the data management tool, this should not be that difficult.
You may also consider other tools such as rrrchive to migrate the data.

Other option might be trying to convince your stakeholders to leave historical 
data in the old system and start fresh in the new environment with the old 
data remaining available for reporting/viewing.

Hope this helps.

Jiri Pospisil
Remedy Specialist, IT Production
LCH Clearnet


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary C.
Sent: 21 November 2012 02:05
To: [email protected]
Subject: AR System & ITSM Upgrades (we are WAY behind)

Hi,

We are on AR System 7.0.01 Patch 006, CMDB 2.0.1, ITSM 7.0.3 Patch 006 and SLM 
7.0.1 Patch 4.  We were unable to consider upgrading until now, and of course 
this is going to be a major effort from what I can see.  We have some 
customizations, but I think I could rebuild them from scratch if I had to.  We 
are in a Windows/SQL server setup and are running a server group.  We want to 
upgrade everything to 8.0

Here is a high-level upgrade path that Support recommended.
A) Upgrade ITSM 7.0.3 patch 6 to ITSM 7.0.3 patch 9.
B) Run ARserver 7.6.04 patch 4 in upgrade mode.
C) Run the difference report to find the customization.
D) Create Overlay to retain customization.
E) Then upgrade CMDB 7.6.04 patch 4
F) Then upgrade ITSM 7.6.04 patch 4.
G) Once everything is working fine upgrade ARS, CMDB and ITSM to 8.0

Do you all agree with this upgrade path?  Would you recommend another 
approach?
Any advice you can give me would be appreciated.  Many of you have listed lots 
of gotchas, so I am semi-planning for those pitfalls.

Thank!

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