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Perform Pre-Upgrade Tasks

This section describes the steps you complete before an upgrade.

Important! For a CA Strong Authentication deployment on a distributed system, perform the upgrade on the system where the CA Strong Authentication Server is installed.

Follow these steps:

1. Shut down the following servers:
   • CA Strong Authentication Server
   • Application server where CA Advanced Authentication and User Data Service are deployed.
2. Verify that JDK installed on the system. Refer to Platform Support Matrix for JDK versions.
3. Verify that the database is available throughout the upgrade process.
4. Verify that the database on which you are performing the upgrade is not set up for replication. Disable database replication before the upgrade.
5. Copy the contents of existing ARCOT_HOME directory to a new directory.

   Note: Here, ARCOT_HOME refers to the base directory that contains the entire directory structure created by the existing CA Strong Authentication installation. Typically, for releases prior to release 6.0, ARCOT_HOME refers to <install_location>\Common Files\Arcot Shared\. From release 6.x onward, ARCOT_HOME refers to <install location>\Arcot Systems.

   Copy the entire contents of %ARCOT_HOME% to a new directory. This directory is referred to as ARCOT_HOME_BACKUP.

6. Open the %ARCOT_HOME%\conf\arcotcommon.ini file in a text editor, and perform the following steps:
   1. Ensure that the primary database details are correct. The upgrade tool uses the database that is configured in this file.
   2. If you have configured a backup database, disable the backup database by commenting the lines with the following properties. These properties are in the arcot\db\backupdb section of the arcotcommon.ini file:
   • URL.1
   • AppServerConnectionPoolName.1
   • Username.1
   1. Include the following section in the arcotcommon.ini file if the current version is 6.2.9:
   • [arcot/crypto/device]
   • HSMDevice=S/W
   1. Save and close the arcotcommon.ini file.
7. If you are upgrading from release 6.0 on IBM DB2, set the SYSTEM TEMPORARY tablespace page size to a minimum of 16K. See database vendor documentation for more information.
8. Back up the database containing the CA Strong Authentication schema.
9. Consult your DBA to configure the database depending on the database volume requirements.
10. Verify that you have sufficient database privileges to upgrade CA Strong Authentication.
11. If you stored the user details in an LDAP repository from the previous release, ensure that the LDAP server is available throughout the upgrade process.
12. Verify that the %ARCOT_HOME% environment variable is set to the directory where CA Strong Authentication is installed.
13. If you have registered plug-ins with this CA Strong Authentication installation, save the CA Strong Authentication startup log. This file is available in the %ARCOT_HOME%\logs\ directory, and it contains details of the plug-ins. After the upgrade, recompile the plug-ins.