SpectroSERVER Upgrade via Upgrade Automation fails Preflight due to sradmin

Products

• Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

When upgrading Spectrum via upgrade automation the preflight validation failed while trying to connect to the sradmin process on the SpectroSERVER system.

Note: This can occur outside of upgrade automation.


TASK [spectrum : Preupgrade validations failed, do not remote upgrade spectrum] ***
Monday 16 March 2026  15:08:34 +0000 (0:00:00.389)       0:31:50.005 **********
skipping: [<servername1>]
skipping: [<servername2>]
skipping: [<servername3>]
skipping: [<servername4>]


Scrolling up in the ansible output we saw that distinst failed to connect to sradmin.

UpdateVSRuntime: Unable to connect.
UpdateVSRuntime: Unable to connect.
<SERVERNAME>: UpgradeSradmin64: Unable to connect.
SPC-INT-20027: Unable to connect to SRAdmin on <SERVERNAME>.

Cause

The sradmin process was failing to start/remain running on the system. Further checks showed that the sradmin was outdated and using the old /etc/init.d/rc.d start method+

Resolution

Manually ran the sradmin install from the install media (as root)

cd <medialocation>/sdic/linux/
./srainstall.bin -i silent

After this 'systemctl status sradmin' shows the process as active and using the /sw/SPECTRUM/SRAdmin/sradmin.sh start method (which is current).

This task no longer failed in the upgrade automation preflight secion.

Additional Information

sradmin commands

systemctl start sradmin
systemctl status sradmin
systemctl stop sradmin