Platform Analytics upgrade packages

About the Platform Analytics upgrade packages

The Platform Analytics 8.0.2 upgrade packages allow you to upgrade your Platform Analytics system from version 8.0 to version 8.0.2. The upgrade packages include updates to the Vertica database schema, the Platform Analytics node, and the Platform Analytics server. You can upgrade Platform Analytics 8.0 with any patches or solution packages installed.

You do not need a separate license for Platform Analytics 8.0.2 if you already have a license for Platform Analytics 8.0.

The Platform Analytics upgrade packages will help improve the upgrade process:

  • The time to migrate the Vertica database schema and Platform Analytics data depends on the performance of your database host and the amount of Platform Analytics-related data in the database. For example, it will take approximately one to two hours to migrate the database schema and data for a cluster with 1.5 million jobs a day, 2000 records per sampling interval, and a data retention period of two weeks for raw data, 26 weeks for hourly data, and 52 weeks for daily data.

  • Upgrading the Platform Analytics node will typically take 15 minutes. The data loaders will be down for up to five minutes during this time while being upgraded.

  • Upgrading the Platform Analytics server will typically take 15 minutes.

Customization issues

The Platform Analytics 8.0.2 upgrade packages can handle certain customizations that you applied to certain built-in files.

Database schema

The following customizations to the database schema will remain in the upgraded database schema:

  • New tables added to the Platform Analytics database

  • New columns added to built-in tables in the Platform Analytics database

The Platform Analytics database schema upgrade package cannot handle certain customizations to the database schema. After the upgrade, your Platform Analytics node and server hosts may encounter problems, which are sent as events. The following customizations may result in problems after the upgrade:

  • Dropped columns in built-in tables

  • Modified built-in table names

  • Modified column names or types in built-in tables

Platform Analytics node

Customizations to the following configuration files (all in the conf directory) will remain in the upgraded Platform Analytics node:

  • datasource.xml

  • log4j.properties

  • plc.xml

  • perf.conf

  • All *.properties files in the dataloader subdirectory.

  • All *.xml files in the plc subdirectory.

  • wsm_plc.conf in the wsm subdirectory.

Platform Analytics server

Customizations to the following configuration files (all in the conf directory) will remain in the upgraded Platform Analytics server:

  • datasource.xml

  • log4j.properties

  • Config.xml

  • ItemLists.xml

  • pi.conf

  • All *.xml files in the purger subdirectory.

  • Package.xml in the packages/workload subdirectory.