Upgrades

Versions 25.1 and 25.3 are full installations that can be installed over a 2020 or later installation.

To upgrade all components in your installation, follow the installation process as described in Install and configure servers and hosts. The installation process detects the older version, and gives you the option to upgrade.

For silent upgrade, see Installing an upgrade in silent mode.

In this topic:

Before upgrading to a later version

• We recommend creating a backup of your Site Admin and Lab DB schemas before you start to safeguard against any unexpected changes during the upgrade process. For details, see Back up projects.

• If you are upgrading and you have more than one OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering server installed, you must perform the following on all servers:

  1. Stop IIS, the OpenText Performance Engineering Backend Service, and the OpenText Performance Engineering Alerts Service.

  2. Install the latest version. For details, see Install and configure servers and hosts.

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Upgrading to 25.x

This section describes how to upgrade and migrate project data when upgrading from versions 24.1 or later to 25.x, when using an Oracle database for a repository.

To upgrade to version 25.x:

1. Install version 24.3 and run the Configuration wizard.

2. Upgrade any required projects from the Admin Site’s Projects tab.

3. Install version 25.x and perform a standard upgrade via the Configuration wizard.

Upgrading old projects that were not upgraded earlier

This section describes how to upgrade old projects that were not upgraded during the environment upgrade process. These instructions are primarily relevant to customers with a large number of projects that cannot all be upgraded during the environment upgrade step.

1. Install a separate 24.3 environment. It will be used to upgrade projects that were not upgraded in the Environment Upgrade stage.

2. Remove the project to be upgraded from the up-to-date environment, and save its json file.

3. Export the project's DB schema.

4. Import the DB schema into the DB server of the 24.3 intermediate environment.

5. Restore the project into the 24.3 environment.

6. Upgrade the project in the 24.3 environment. Wait for the operation to complete successfully.

7. Remove the project from the 24.3 environment and save its json file.

8. Export the project's DB schema from the database server of the 24.3 intermediate environment.

9. Import the DB schema into the database server of the up-to-date environment. The original, non-upgraded schema may need to be renamed or dropped prior to importing the upgraded one.

10. Restore the project in the up-to-date environment.

11. Upgrade the project normally.

12. Perform steps 2-11 from the above procedure for every project that you upgraded.

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Upgrade tips

Follow these guidelines when performing an upgrade:

• For silent installations and configurations, make sure that the - userinput.xml for all nodes have the same domain and user. The values are case sensitive.

• After an upgrade or after running the server configuration wizard, make sure that the OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering service user is the same for all nodes on dat\pcs.config and on all hosts dat\LTS.config. The user name is case sensitive.

• After an upgrade, make sure that the OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering service user is the same user and that case sensitivity is maintained within the <repository>\system_config\appsettings.json file.

• After running the Identity Changer utility, make sure that the OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering service user is the same, maintaining case sensitivity, in the following files.

  Area	path	file
  Servers	dat	pcs.config
  Hosts	dat	lts.config
  Repository	system_config	appsettings.json

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