Hello Listers. I'm planning the upgrade for our server group from 7.1 P7 to 7.5 P3. This is how it looks (all Windows servers), running SQLServer 2005.
ARS Server Group 00 ARS 1 (Admin Operation) ARS 2 (Non - Admin Operation) Midtier Group 00 Midtier 1 Midtier 2 SQL Server How I read Page 58 of the installation guide is that you need to these steps: 1. Stop ARS on the Non-Admin server (ARS 2) 2. Upgrade Admin server (ARS 1) with Upgrade option. 3. Upgrade ARS 2 with Server Group option. 4. Start ARS on ARS 2. Here is where I get confused. How do I update the Approval and Email engine. The guide states: - When upgrading components such as Approval Server and Email Engine, remove the associated server from the server group while performing the upgrade. To do this, clear the Server Group Member check box on the Server Information form, or modify the Server-Group-Member option in the ar.cfg[ar.conf] file. So when I DESELECT the 'Server Group Member' flag on ARS 2, that implies that the ARS is running on that server when i'm upgrading ARS 1, which contradicts the first step of stopping ARS on that server. Then when I upgrade ARS 2, I have to DESELECT the flag on ARS 1. Does that mean I reselect that flag on ARS 2 and select the Server Group option when I do the upgrade. Does that mean I need to stop ARS on ARS 1? -OR- Do NOT select Approval Server and email engine when I do my server group upgrade. Then DESELECT the Server Group flag on both servers and run the upgrade again on both servers selecting only Approval Server and Email engine the second time around? Unfortunately, I can't test this in our dev or uat enviroment because they are standalone servers. Anyone run through this scenario yet? Thanks Ed _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
