Upgrading Vocera Analytics 1.4.3 Remote Agent on Vocera Platform 6.x

This topic describes the steps to upgrade Vocera Analytics 1.4.3 Remote Agent on a Linux machine with Vocera Platform 6.x version.

Prerequisites:

Stop the AnalyticsDataSync service. To stop, perform the following steps:

  1. Login to Vocera Platform Web console.
  2. Go to Status > Adapter Services.
  3. Locate the AnalyticsDataSync service.
  4. Click Stop to stop the service.

About this task:

To upgrade, perform the following steps:

  1. Connect to the Vocera Platform machine using PuTTY.
  2. Ensure that the correct Vocera Platform repo is configured with the artifactory path at the following location: /etc/yum.repos.d/vocera.repo

    The following is an example of Vocera Platform 6.6 Artifactory configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d/vocera.repo:

    [Platform-6.6-Stable]
    name=Platform-6.6-Stable
    baseurl=http://<artifactory path>/platform-6.6-rpm-stable/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
    Note: You would need the specific artifactory repo path for Vocera Analytics 1.4.3 RPM. For more information on supported RPMs, see Supported RPMs.
  3. To clear the existing dimension files, run the command:
    sudo rm -rf /opt/EXTENSION/log/AnalyticsDataSync/*
  4. Execute the following command to clean all cached information:
    sudo yum clean all
  5. Execute the following command to check for the latest RPM:
    sudo yum check-updates
  6. Upgrade the analytics data sync service using the command:
    1. sudo yum upgrade vocera-analytics-data-sync-service.x86_64

      You will be prompted to upgrade based on the version available in the artifactory.

    2. Specify the version to upgrade, which is
      vocera-analytics-data-sync-service-1.4.1.4-1.x86_64.rpm
  7. Upgrade the flume RPM using the command:
    1. sudo yum upgrade va-flume.x86_64
    2. Specify the flume version to upgrade, which is
      va-flume-1.4.3-3_199.x86_64.rpm
  8. Upgrade the monitoring RPM using the command:
    1. sudo yum upgrade va-monitoring.x86_64
    2. Specify the monitoring version to upgrade, which is
      va-monitoring-1.4.3-156.el7.x86_64.rpm
    sudo yum upgrade va-monitoring-1.4.3-156.el7.x86_64.rpm
  9. Verify correct build of monitoring is installed using the command:
    sudo yum info va-monitoring
  10. Verify correct build of flume is installed using the command:
    sudo yum info va-flume
  11. Verify correct build of Analytics Data Sync Service is installed using the command:
    sudo yum info vocera-analytics-data-sync-service
  12. Login to Vocera Platform Web console.
  13. Go to Status > Adapter Services.
  14. Locate the AnalyticsDataSync service.
  15. Click Start to start the service if it is not running.