Upgrade recomendation for old versions BigFix, ILMT Lite, and agents for AIX and HP-UX

It might be helpful if you could provide some details, eg. how many agents do have etc.

Personally I could imagine 2 scenarios with pros and cons:

  1. Apply inplace upgrade from 9.2 to 11.0.x
  2. Install BES Root and ILMT from scratch and migrate agents

Did I get it right that you use BigFix only for ILMT? In this case, a third option using ILMT without Bigfix might also be a possible way to go.

I would prefer option 2. It would provide a clean, fresh BigFix installation and keep your existing server as a backup running in parallel. You would need a new, additional license.

After installing the new Server (and databases of course) you can migrate the clients using a fixlet which just replaces the masthead file and restarts the agent. In case of need I can provide a code snippet for this.

If you prefer option 1 I would strongly recommend to open a support case to be on the safe side. And as much backups / VM Snapshots as possible.