Upgrading the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin Database Schema

Part of the upgrade process includes upgrading the database schema used with FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. After installing FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin software and before starting it, you must upgrade the database schema to the new version. The schema upgrade is performed as the database user you supplied through the Admin Configurator.

The database upgrade script assumes that you are upgrading from an existing version 15.x, 14.x, or 12, to version 2020 R1 database. As a precaution, it is recommended that you back up the database before upgrading the database. The data in the database will be preserved and transformed if necessary.

To upgrade the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications database:

1.

Start the database server, if it is not already running.

2.

At the command line, change to the admin_install_directory and make sure that FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin is stopped. Also, make sure no database tables are being accessed.

3.

Type flexnet upgradedb. This command upgrades the FlexNet database schema, asks whether you want to use database partitioning for usage-related tables, and then migrates existing data and new configuration information to the new schema.

If there are any errors during the upgrade, they are written to the console. A log containing a record of the entire upgrade process is created at the following location:

<admin_install_directory>/logs/upgradedb.log