Important GigaVUE-FM Upgrade Guidance

To upgrade GigaVUE-FM, the recommended procedure is to back up your current configuration and perform the pre-upgrade checks (memory requirements, the maximum number of images) before installing the image. You can upgrade via the GigaVUE-FM GUI or CLI. It is recommended that you plan your upgrade before performing any upgrade steps. Refer Supported Upgrade Paths for GigaVUE-FM for details on upgrade path.

Best Practice: Before performing an upgrade, in addition to taking a backup of GigaVUE-FM, also take a Sysdump, which provides valuable configuration information that is not captured in the backup. You can use the Sysdump after the upgrade to troubleshoot any upgrade-related issues with your configurations.

Starting from Software version 6.5.00, Application Intelligence solution can be configured from the Monitoring Session Page. You cannot create a new Application Intelligence Session or edit an Application Intelligence Session for virtual environment from the Application Intelligence page.

In the Monitoring Session page, Application Filtering can be configured either with Pass All or Advanced Rules in the fifth Rule Set. You cannot configure Application Filtering with both Pass All and Advanced Rules in the fifth Rule set. Therefore, before upgrading your GigaVUE-FM to 6.5.00, ensure that none of the existing Application Intelligence Session has Application Filtering configured with both Advanced Rules as Drop and No Rule Match Pass All in the fifth rule set. Otherwise, after upgrading to 6.5.00, you must delete that particular Application Intelligence Session to continue with your migration process.

For this reason, before upgrading to 6.5.00, you must edit the fifth rule set in the Application Filtering such that either only Advanced Rule as Drop or No Rule Match Pass All exists. Else, after upgrading to 6.5.00, you must delete that particular Application Intelligence Session to continue with your migration process. Refer to Migrate Application Intelligence Session to Monitoring Session section in the respective cloud deployment guides for more detailed information on how to migrate the existing Application Intelligence Session to the Monitoring Session page.

GigaVUE-FM v5.8.01 introduced several significant changes that included improvements in usability and performance. These changes involved upgrading and replacing databases and changing the underlying operating system. For this reason, when upgrading from any pre-5.8.xx version of FM to version 5.8.xx or above, you must first migrate your existing configurations and data such as audit logs, events, syslogs, and statistics from your current pre-5.8.xx GigaVUE-FM version to GigaVUE-FM v6.5.00.

Special migration steps and supported upgrade paths are provided under Migrate GigaVUE-FM in the 5.10 Documentation. After GigaVUE-FM v5.10.xx, migration is no longer needed when upgrading to future versions. For supported upgrade paths requiring a special migration step, see Supported GigaVUE-FM Migration and Upgrade Paths.