Preparing for the upgrade

This section contains information you need to know before beginning the upgrade process.

About the privileges needed for the upgrade process

To execute the upgrade process, you must use a command window with local administrator privileges.

Identifying folders in your existing System Console installation

Before beginning the upgrade process, identify the following folders in your existing System Console installation:

The installation root folder

The folder where System Console was installed. It contains a folder named modules. In a typical installation, the default path of the root folder is either:

C:\Actuate\SystemConsole

or:

C:\Actuate3\SystemConsole

The System Console home folder

The home folder in your existing installation is named SystemConsole. This folder is in the modules folder, which the installation root folder contains. In a typical installation, the default path of the home folder is either:

C:\Actuate\SystemConsole\modules\SystemConsole

or:

C:\Actuate3\SystemConsole\modules\SystemConsole

Identifying the Windows service user

When you installed System Console, you selected whether to run it as Windows services. If your existing System Console is running as Windows services, and you want to run System Console 3.1.1 as Windows services also, you must specify the name of the Windows service user when installing System Console 3.1.1. In a typical deployment, System Console runs as two services:

Actuate Apache Tomcat 7 for System Console

Actuate PostgreSQL for System Console

Both services have the same Windows service user.

How to find the name of a service user

1 Choose Start➛Control Panel➛Administrative Tools➛Services.

2 On Services, right-click the name of the service and choose Properties.

3 In Properties, select Log On. The name of the service user is either Local System account or the value appearing in This account.