Hey Todd
This is the email the PTC support lady sent. Sandy
Vasudevan. Dont know if you know or have
interfaced with her. Seemed very very wc knowlegable
over the phone. Not great handle on English,
but well enough to understand. Just had to have her
repaet a couple of times.
Anway, as I look all this over, I will probably have a
couple questions.
Thanks
Larry
Lawrence,
C6251696 :
Customer is looking for general Upgrade Instruction to upgrade from
Windchill 7 M090 to both Windchill 8.0 M050 & Windchill 9.0
M030.
I have summarised
all the details we discussed on the phone. Please let me know if you have any
further questions.
Before you begin the
Upgrade, please take a few seconds to review this
information:
1) First, follow the
procedure in the Rehost Guide(link below) to rehost the Production 7.0 server on
to a Test Server where you will perform the upgrade.
2) Make sure you can
bring up the 7.0 server up and log into the UI.
3) Now, take a
backup of you LDAP .
4) Uninstall
Aphelion browser from Control Panel.
5) Upgrade Oracle to
10g using the Database Assistant Manager . Please open a call with the Windchill
Runtime Group if you want assistance with this.
6) Install Windchill 9.0 on this same machine.
(use attached Windchill_upgrade_checklist.pdf as reference for
this)
Also, refer to the
Windchill Installation and Configuration guide:
a)
Install Apache/tomcat/Aphelion(browser) on a different directory
structure.
b) Make
sure to install the Infoengine with a distinct Base Distinguished
Name.
c) When
creating the Oracle User, make sure to create a new 9.0 User Schema, but use the
same Service Name (SID) defined in the 7.0
db.properties(wt.pom.serviceName)
7) Once the 9.0
install is done, you should be able to bring up the 9.0 server successfully and
log into the UI.
Now, you should
follow the instructions in the Upgrade Guide to begin the Upgrade
Process.
Thank you,
Sandy Vasudevan
PTC Technical Support
Engineer
Tel: 800.477.6435