Later this year we are looking to move BigFix 10.0.3 off RHEL7 VMs to RHEL8 VMs and upgrade to 10.0.5.
At the time of the exercise, a case will be opened in advance but in the meantime for research and preparations sake, in our lab environment, is there a best practice/order of operations to follow?
Restore 10.0.3 on new VMs and upgrade or can we install 10.0.5 fresh on the new VMs and migrate the DB over?
@IanDM
I usually like to move the old version over to the new OS/Hardware and then upgrade after the move.
This takes advantage of the newer (and usually more powerful) hardware to make the upgrade go faster.
Only exception to this is when the old version is not supported on the new OS/Hardware, which forces you to upgrade in place on the old hardware and then move afterwards.
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0087327
RHEL 8 supported for root server starting BigFix 10.0.2, so you should be good there.
That makes sense. Thank you for the advice.