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The upgrade process of the Moab HPC Suite includes upgrading the database and different components in the suite. This guide contains detailed instructions for upgrading each component for
It is highly recommended that you first perform upgrades in a test environment. Installation and upgrade procedures are tested prior to release; however, due to customizable variations that may be utilized by your configuration, it is not recommended to drop new versions of software directly into production environments. This is especially true when the workload has vital bearing. Contact Adaptive Computing Professional Services for more information.
Because many system-level files and directories are accessed during the upgrade, the upgrade instructions in this guide should be executed with root privileges.
You will see that the instructions execute commands as the root user. Please note that the same commands will work for a non-root user with the sudo command.
Upgrade the Moab HPC Suite in the following order:
- Torque. See Upgrading Torque Resource Manager.
- Moab Workload Manager. See Upgrading Moab Workload Manager.
- Moab Accounting Manager. See Upgrading Moab Accounting Manager.
- Moab Web Services. See Upgrading Moab Web Services.
- RLM Server. See 2.21 Upgrading RLM Server.
- Upgrade Nitro with your Moab HPC Suite. See 2.22 Upgrading Your Nitro Integration.