Recommended Steps for Upgrading Linux Operating System for a Spectrum Installation

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

What are the recommended steps for upgrading the Linux operating system for our Spectrum servers?

Environment

Release : All Supported Versions

Component : Spectrum Core / SpectroSERVER

Resolution

We recommend that following steps.

1. Backup all of the Spectrum databases.
2. Shutdown all of the Spectrum processes.
3. Take a snapshot of the system.
4. Proceed with the OS upgrade.
5. Start all of the Spectrum processes.

Additional Information

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-netops/23-3/Fault-Monitoring-with-DX-Spectrum/installing-and-upgrading/deployment-capacity-and-optimization-best-practices/operating-environment-and-systems-setup.html

Perform automatic disk backups, OS backups, and OS updates only after gracefully shutting down all Spectrum processes.