TABLE OF CONTENTS Upgrading from an earlier version of MOM can be easy or it can be complicated. It all depends on the size of your current MOM environment and the amount of planning you have put into your upgrade.
If you ve been using MOM 2000 SP1 and have all the components on a single computer it s a relatively simple and straightforward process to upgrade the system to MOM 2005. If the components are on multiple systems there is a specific order to upgrade due to interdependencies between the MOM components.
The upgrade process uninstalls the old components first and then the MOM 2005 components are installed in their place. The only exceptions to that are the MOM 2005 database and MOM Reporting.
You can t upgrade to MOM 2005 Evaluation version from any previous version of MOM. This includes any previous version of MOM 2005. You will need to completely uninstall the previous version and then install MOM 2005
When you upgrade from the MOM 2005 Evaluation Edition you need to upgrade only the MOM database, Management Servers, and the consoles. Any agents installed, the MOM Reporting components, and the MOM Reporting database will not need updating.
As stated several times previously in this chapter, even though you carefully planned your objectives for the installation of MOM 2005 in Chapter 3, there are a few things you should go over one more time before you begin the installation. We repeat...
