Upgrading from Optim Management Console v2.1 or Optim Management Server v2.1

When you upgrade from IBM® Optim™ Management Console v2.1 or IBM Optim Management Server v2.1, the upgrade process deletes all databases used by the instance of IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition that is installed with Optim Management Console v2.1 or Optim Management Server v2.1. To preserve the data in the databases, you must manually copy the database directories before upgrading.

Before you uninstall Optim Management Console v2.1 or Optim Management Server v2.1, complete the following:
  1. Verify that an OptimDB directory exists as a sibling directory to the installation directory for the IBM Optim Shared package group, and create the OptimDB directory if it does not exist. You can find the installation directory for the IBM Optim Shared package group by opening IBM Installation Manager and clicking Modify. For example, on one computer, the installation directory for the IBM Optim Shared package group is C:\Program Files\IBM Optim\shared. Verify that the C:\Program Files\IBM Optim\OptimDB directory exists, and create the C:\Program Files\IBM Optim\OptimDB directory if the directory does not exist.
  2. Open the directory in which the databases are located. The location of the database directory is at shared_installation_directory\WebSphere\ApplicationServer\var\derby\, where shared_installation_directory is the installation directory that you specified for the IBM Optim Shared package group.
  3. Copy the following directories from the directory indicated in step 2 to the directory indicated in step 1. You might not have all of these directories if just Optim Management Console or just Optim Management Server is installed on the computer.
    • ActiveMRCDB
    • ArchiveMRCDB
    • optimConsoleDB
    • OptimServerDB
    • SystemDatabases
    • UddiDatabase
You can now uninstall Optim Management Console v2.1 or Optim Management Server v2.1, and then install and deploy the new components to WebSphere Application Server Community Edition.