Upgrading TopView running backup/failover configurations
This article contains additional recommendations for systems running backup configurations.
The TopView download page provides an upgrade plan and documentation. Please open and refer to that plan during this process.
If possible, the primary and failover machines should be upgraded at the same time because they may share things that may be version specific:
- Configuration information
- SQL Server tables (if you are logging alarms to SQL Server).
The upgrade process is fast so you should not need to be down for long.
When upgrading TopView running both primary and failover systems, we recommend the following plan:
- Stop the TopView Engines on
the primary and failover (failover should only be running the watchdog
Engine)
- Close all TopView apps on
primary machine
- Upgrade the primary machine
Start the Engines on the
primary machine
- Run Admin Tools on the
primary machine - check the application log for any issues
(warnings/errors)
- Close all TopView apps on
failover machine
- Upgrade the failover
machine
- Start the watchdog on the
failover machine
- Run Admin Tools on the failover machine - check the application log for any issues (warnings/errors)
Be sure
to read the upgrade instructions provided on the download page and follow the
steps.