Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ups/upd Installation, But Were Afraid to Ask...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ups/upd Installation, But Were Afraid to Ask...

What We’ll Cover...

What We Will Not Cover...

Pre-Requisites:

Target Audience

Before You Begin...

Answer these Questions...

...and these Questions

Some Important Concepts

Configuring ups: dbconfig

PROD_DIR_PREFIX

SETUPS_DIR

The upsdb_list file

UPD_USERCODE_DIR

The updconfig file

Configuring upd: updconfig

Converting the database

Let’s Begin!

Old upd example

Create each upsdb

Configure each upsdb

Configure upd

Convert the old ups databases (upgrades only)

Getting ready to declare...

Prepare your environment to declare:

Declare the new products

Beta testing

Go Live! Declare them “current”

Declare the new products “current”

Check startup files.

Reboot (recommended)

Fully backwards compatible...

Or, New and Improved Table Files

Summary: what you need to know

Summary: what you need to do

Summary: post-upgrade cleanup

Additional Information

Email: uas-group@fnal.gov

Home Page: http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/