Isilon | InsightIQ 3.1 upgrade

EMC Isilon InsightIQ Upgrade

What it is InsightIQ:

It is a performance monitoring and reporting tool.

What it does:

It gives a ability to check the performance of the monitored clusters, it allows you to monitor the performance based on the per-client, per-protocol and per-operations so that you can easily diagnose and troubleshoot the issue. It also provides you an ability to generate reports based on your requirements like - quota reporting for charge back purpose.


IIQ compatibility chart:

IIQ upgrade level:

Before you plan your upgrade do make a note of your server configuration & installed rpm and compare it with the system and software checklist given in IIQ installation guide.

By now you must have heard about the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL - OpenSSL bug , which affects any OpenSSL version between 1.0.1 up to and including 1.0.1g. Though it doesn't effect most of EMC products but you should check current OpenSSL version by using below command

# rpm -qa | grep -i openssl

This shows the installed OpenSSL version and current version that are not effected are

openssl-devel-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64
openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64

In case if you are running on older version then simply upgrade to the latest. But EMC's InsightIQ dependency package makes your life easier by providing all the rpm which is needed to be upgraded. So instead of installing each rpm one by one, you can simply download the IIQ dependency package from EMC website and install it prior to your upgrade. 

Below are the steps to upgrade IIQ on linux machine:

Step 1: Download the package from EMC website and save it.

Step 2: Check and confirm that the server matches the system and software requirement mentioned in the Isilon InsightIQ installation guide.

Step 3: Check the current version of the InsightIQ package installed and plan your deployment accordingly

<server_name># rpm -qa | grep isilon

Step 4: Check if yum is confirmed on the sever or not

<server_name># yum list all | grep isilon

Step 5: run the below command to upgrade IIQ:

<server_name># sudo yum upgrade <path>

where path is the path of iiq3.1 rpm file

PS: the upgrade process might take few hours and console will appears as frozen.. so DON'T cancel the process and wait for the upgrade to finish.

Step 6: In case if the system ask you to upgrade the data store then you can do it by using the below command-

#update_iiq_datastore

Step 7: Once the upgrade is finished then you can perform clean up using

# sudo yum clean


Happy Learning!

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