Upgrade from VR6 to VR7

01

BEFORE YOU UPGRADE

Benefits of VidiReports 7

Please refer to this article of our Knowledge Base.

Upgrading or starting from scratch ?

VidiReports 7 includes an upgrade mechanism from versions 5 and 6.

With this mechanism, you will keep:

  • Your network organization (sites, locations, boxes)
  • Your configuration parameters
  • Your entitlements provided by the former license file, such as expiration dates and features.

If you choose to start from scratch, you will have to re-organize your network, which means:

  • Moving the newly created boxes into existing locations and deleting old boxes
  • or, moving the newly created locations into your sites, and deleting the previous ones – you will lose data continuity as data is stored at the location level.

02

DOS AND DON'TS

DOs

  • Test on a small subset of locations before complete network deployment
  • Read the installation manual
  • Stop VidiReports from working
  • Stop any mechanism you had put in place to start VidiReports at boot
  • Contact us in case you have any doubt

DON'Ts

  • Uninstall VidiReports 5 or 6 before upgrading
  • Deploy on hundreds of boxes unless you have tested the mechanism before
  • Miss the upgrade command line if you are on Linux

03

UPGRADE PROCESS

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