First-time installation vs. upgrade

If a previous version of the IBM® Storage Management Pack is already installed, you can upgrade it.

When you run the installation (see Running the installation wizard) on a host with an existing installation of the IBM Storage Management Pack, the upgrade wizard is automatically invoked and it guides you through the upgrade process.

Important:

After the upgrade, you need to delete and then re-import the management packs. For more information, see Removing a specific management pack and Importing management packs to Microsoft SCOM.
No IBM Storage events and alerts are kept in the database after the upgrade.

If you are upgrading to version 2.4.0 by installing it over version 1.1.1, run the upgrade_config.cmd CLI utility after version 2.4.0 is installed, in order to restore the earlier configurations.

For example:

C:\Program Files\IBM\Storage\Host\IBMStorageSCOM\bin>upgrade_config.cmd
Upgrade complete.