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Question by Jose B. · Dec 10, 2014 at 02:05 AM ·

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

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Answer by Phil J. · Dec 11, 2014 at 01:34 AM

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.

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avatar image Thomas K. · Dec 19, 2014 at 04:06 AM 0
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Hi Phil,

thanks for the input. I created JLT-114864 to track this internally.

Regards,

Thomas

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Answer by Steven S. · Dec 11, 2014 at 01:30 AM

Phil, did you start with the 3 week temporary license?

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Answer by Andreas G. · Dec 11, 2014 at 01:29 AM

Hi Phil. Thats great feedback. Can you share some of the plugins that didnt work for you after the initial upgrad?

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Answer by Phil J. · Dec 11, 2014 at 01:12 AM

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 â€“ 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.

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Answer by Steven S. · Dec 10, 2014 at 05:22 AM

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?

 

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Answer by Jose B. · Dec 10, 2014 at 05:00 AM

Great! Thanks Connor and Roman.

And is it possible to go directly from 5.6 to 6.1?

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Yes you can Jose. We will be doing the same upgrade this week.

 

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Answer by Roman S. · Dec 10, 2014 at 02:24 AM

It is very similar to 6.0 - the link to the documentation: Upgrade and Migration Guide

Best, Roman

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Answer by Connor G. · Dec 10, 2014 at 02:19 AM

Check out the Migration Guide. This link is for the 6.0 release, but I imagine 6.1 is very similar.

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