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Upgrading the agents

The following details the steps required to upgrade the agents:

  1. Run the kfixer utility (provided with the interim fix or obtainable from the IBM Support Web site) before the agent code is upgraded or uninstalled. This utility prevents the agent kernel extension from being unloaded while the interim fix is applied, and ensures that when the agent code is upgraded, the kernel extension will be safely upgraded, as well. The kfixer utility MUST be used before any agent's software is upgraded, by any method.

    This utility is only required to upgrade existing agents. After you have applied the interim fix to the runtime server, any new agents can be deployed, by any method, WITHOUT using the kfixer utility.

    The kfixer utility comes with a readme file telling you how to run it.

  2. Update the agent software, WITHOUT uninstalling the agent first. This can be done by any of the methods available to you:

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