topic Re: The 9.8 upgrade in ZoneDirector

The 9.8 upgrade

martin_kane — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:34:47 GMT

I notice that 9.7.1.0.30 is not listed in the official upgrade path for 9.8 - surely I don't have to downgrade to 9.7.0.0.220 before upgrading?

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

mitchell_axtell — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:35:31 GMT

I upgraded successfully from 9.7.1.0.30 to the 9.8 GA successfully in a lab environment, but would not suggest doing so in production without Ruckus approval. It may be worth opening a support case to verify, as they will likely know more.

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

michael_brado — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:11:10 GMT

Our 9.8.0.0.369 GA has been posted to our Website today, with Release Notes to follow that will provide the official upgrade version path, but Yes, you can upgrade from 9.7.1.0.30 to 9.8.0.0.369 in one procedure.

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

drew_baldock — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:17:46 GMT

Is 9.7.1.17 to 9.8 supported?

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

robert_slomka — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:43:05 GMT

Smart redundancy zd1100 needs special procedures ?

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

michael_brado — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:25:34 GMT

Always refer to Release Notes for official upgrade details. And from the 9.8 RN,
the official upgrade path is from one of these previous releases.

4.1.1. Official 9.8 upgrade paths supported:
• 9.5.3.0.45 (9.5 MR3)
• 9.6.0.0.267 (9.6 GA)
• 9.6.1.0.15 (9.6 MR1)
• 9.6.2.0.13 (9.6 MR2)
• 9.7.0.0.220 (9.7 GA)
• 9.8.0.0.112 (9.8 Beta)
• 9.8.0.0.203 (9.8 LCS)

Always save a backup configuration before upgrading, and it's recommended to
add the version digits to the filename to remind you what version it came from.
If you do need to downgrade, you can reload the previous configuration instead
of factory default.

The issues that have required ZD110s in Smart Redundancy to break SR and
upgrade individually have been resolved in 9.8.

9.8 GA release has been delayed by intense QA testing, and was supposed to
have been released earlier. Many important bug fixes were therefore added to
9.7.1 builds, both .17 and .30, due to need. Please upgrade from a QA upgrade
tested image, per the 9.8 Release Notes.

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

drew_baldock — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:47:56 GMT

This is unfortunate, I would think 9.7.1.0.30 should be a supported path.

Based on the release notes it makes more sense to upgrade to 9.8 LCS and then 9.8 GA rather than downgrade to 9.7 GA, no?

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

martin_kane — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:51:40 GMT

I need to know how to downgrade from the current 9.8 back down to 9.7.0.0.220 so that I can try again, following the correct upgrade path. Maybe that's why my filtering of Generated DPSKs doesn't work? 🙂

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

michel_galle — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:20:28 GMT

What is the recommended path to upgrade to 9.8 from an already installed 9.7.1.0 build 17 ?

thanks.

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

michel_galle — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:26:03 GMT

I am in 9.7.1.0 build 17 version, and when I installed it I was not aware it was potentially a deadlock to upgrade.

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

max_o_driscoll — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:23:40 GMT

I upgraded from 9.7.1.0.17 to 9.7.1.0.30 (a short term bugfix release if I remember correctly) then a week later to 9.8.0.0.b369 - not supported path.
All fine several days later...but perhaps I was just lucky.

Also I'm fairly happy to hard reset to factory, apply previous working firmware (9.7.1.0.30) and import a backup config to get back to where I was (of course it would have taken an irritated hour or two to get there).

Read the release notes, if no issue you can see, contact tech support and ask their opinion on non-supported upgrade path...then try at your own risk!

All good clean fun.

Re: The 9.8 upgrade

martin_kane — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:51:19 GMT

Similarly here, Max. Although the filtering of generated DPSKs has stopped working, the engineer working on the case doesn't believe it's because of the upgrade from 9.7.1.0.30