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Note: Before you upgrade the software, Infoblox recommends that you back up the current configuration and database. For information, see Backing Up Files9.

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Depending on your upgrade paths, you can upgrade to a new release immediately or you can schedule the upgrade. For information about how to upgrade immediately, see Upgrading the Grid Immediately. Before you schedule an upgrade, ensure that you understand the limitations, as described in Managing Upgrade Groups. For information about how to schedule an upgrade, see Scheduling Upgrades.

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1. From the Grid tab, select the Upgrade tab, and then click Upgrade -> Schedule Upgrade from the Toolbar.
2. In the Upgrade Schedule editor, complete the following:
   • Activate Upgrade Schedule: Select this to enable the upgrade schedule. Clear it if you are creating an upgrade schedule that you plan to activate at a later date. You can configure and save information in this editor even when you deactivate a dis

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   • Grid Master Upgrade Start Information: Enter a Grid Master upgrade date, time, and time zone. The date and time must be before those of the upgrade groups.
     • Date: Enter a start date of the Grid Master upgrade in YYYY-MM-DD (year-month-day) format. You can click the calendar icon to select a date from the calendar widget.
     • Time: Enter a start time of the Grid Master upgrade in hh:mm:ss AM/PM (hour:minute:second in AM or PM) format. You can select a time from the drop-down list.
     • Time Zone: Select a time zone that applies to the start time you enter. If this time zone is different from the Grid time zone, the appliance converts the time you enter here based on the Grid time zone, after you save this schedule. When you display this schedule again, it displays the converted time. Selecting the time zone here does not affect any time zone settings in the Grid. (For information about setting the Grid and member time zones, see Managing Time Settings12.)
     • Admin Local Time: Displays the Grid Master upgrade date and start time in the time zone of the administrator, as explained in Creating Local Admins.
   • In the upgrade member table, specify the following by clicking the corresponding field in each row:
     • Group: The name of the upgrade group. You can assign a different upgrade group by selecting the group from the drop-down list.
     • Group Members: When you expand an upgrade group, this field displays the group members.
     • Warning: This field turns yellow when there is a conflict among the upgrade groups. Hover your mouse over the field and the tooltip displays the member that contains the conflict. It also displays recommended upgrade groups in the Group column so you can change the group assignment to resolve the conflict. The tooltip can display one of the following: GMC, DNS Primary, DHCP Logging Member, or DHCP Failover. For information about how to resolve a conflict, see Resolving Upgrade Warnings. Select an upgrade group from the drop-down list in the Group column to assign a different upgrade group. Click Validate and Refresh to validate the new group assignment.
     • Start Upgrade: Specify when the upgrade occurs. Select one of the following from the drop-down list:
       • Date/Time: Select this to configure the upgrade start date, time, and time zone.
       • After <group> : Select After Grid Master to start the distribution immediately after the completion of the Grid Master distribution. Select an upgrade group that must complete its distribution before the group you are configuring. If you select this option, you cannot enter a date, time, and time zone.
         Date, Time, and Time Zone are enabled only when you select Date/Time for Start Upgrade.
     • Date: Enter an upgrade start date in YYYY-MM-DD (year-month-day) format. You can click the calendar icon to select a date from the calendar widget.
     • Time: Enter an upgrade start time in hh:mm:ss AM/PM (hour:minute:second in AM or PM) format. You can select a time from the drop-down list.
     • Time Zone: By default, the appliance displays the time zone of the first Grid member in the Upgrade Group. You can change this time zone, if you want to enter the time using a different time zone. After you save the schedule though, the appliance converts the time you entered to the time zone of the upgrade group, if it is different. (For information about setting the Grid and member time zones, see Managing Time Settings12.) To change the default time zone of an upgrade group, change the first group member in the Upgrade Group list, as explained in Adding Upgrade Groups on page 544.
     • Admin Local Time: Displays the data and time in the time zone of the administrator, as explained in Creating Local Admins.
     • Upgrade Members: Indicates whether the upgrade within the group occurs simultaneously or sequentially. You cannot edit this field here. You define this when you create the upgrade group. To change this setting, see Modifying Upgrade Groups 
3. Save the configuration.

The appliance does not save the schedule and displays an error message if the schedule contains the following:

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Note: Grid members that do not have the correct NIOS version on their alternate partitions due to an incomplete distribution automatically resynchronize the NIOS version with the Grid Master, and then upgrade.

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The Grid Manager session terminates when the HA Grid Master fails over from Node 1 to Node 2, or when the single Grid Master reboots and goes offline.
During a scheduled upgrade, the Grid members that have not upgraded yet can join the Grid and function normally until their scheduled upgrade time. When the upgrade finishes, the upgrade schedule is set to inactive.

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To pause an upgrade, from the Grid Upgrade Status bar, click the Pause icon. When you pause an upgrade, Grid Manager displays a system message at the top of the screen indicating the upgrade is paused, until you resume the upgrade. For information about the upgrade status of each member, see Monitoring Distribution and Upgrade Status bookmark1133.
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To resume an upgrade:

1. From the Grid Upgrade Status bar, click the Resume icon.
2. When the appliance displays a dialog box confirming that you want to resume the upgrade, click Yes to continue.

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You can view the distribution or upgrade status of an upgrade group in the group list view. In this view, the distribution or upgrade status rolls up to the group level. You can expand an upgrade group to view the status of individual member. However, you cannot view detailed status of a selected member from this view.
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To view the process status of an upgrade group, from the Grid tab, select the Upgrade tab, and then click Toggle Group List View. Grid Manager displays the following information for each member in an upgrade group:

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