How to upgrade to Dynatrace 6.1
Good afternoon,
We have Dynatrace 5.6 with java agents, UEM, and 3 collectors. What are the steps to upgrade to 6.1? What should we be aware of? Is there documentation to do this step by step?
Best regards,
José
Great! Thanks Connor and Roman.
And is it possible to go directly from 5.6 to 6.1?
Yes you can Jose. We will be doing the same upgrade this week.
Regards
We are going from 5.6 to 6.1 and reviewing the:
dynaTrace-6.1-MigrationGuide.pdf
PROD-Dynatrace6.1ReleaseNotes-091214-2112-3876.pdf
dtmigration-tool-release-notes.txt
Have we missed anything?
Any other caveats?
I just finished our migration. Make sure you upgrade your licenses in the license portal, as well as get a handle on any custom plugins you're using – not all of the plugins came along with our migration from 5.5 to 6.1.
We had some monitors/measures not working (or some showed in the list of monitors but had no detail after clicking edit!), but I left it all alone, and grabbed the plugins we used to use. That brought everything back to life. It was pretty painless for us, though it did take a while for a "medium" installation.
Hi Phil. Thats great feedback. Can you share some of the plugins that didnt work for you after the initial upgrad?
Phil, did you start with the 3 week temporary license?
Steve, I did a straight upgrade, no demo/trial period.
Andreas, I believe I had to manually reinstall: Web Transaction monitor, SOAP Monitor, and the IIS Monitor. Other plugins, including a custom one I quickly made a while ago, moved without issue. I'm sure I missed a step or something, but I was very grateful that dT didn't delete the monitors outright when it couldn't find the plugins.
