To have the latest version of Security Center, you can upgrade from an earlier version (5.4 through 5.6) to 5.7 in a single step.
Before you begin
- Read the things you need to know and do before you upgrade.
- Read the differences between Security Center 5.x and 5.7 privileges.
- Read the differences between LPR Manager 5.x and 5.7.
- Read the differences between Web Client 4.x and 5.7.
- If upgrading from 5.4, read the differences between Server Admin 5.4 and 5.7.
What you should know
Not all tasks and roles work in backward compatibility mode. If you plan to upgrade your system in stages, make sure that the features that are essential to your operation are supported. See Backward compatibility requirements for Security Center.
NOTE: A role is
upgraded only if you upgrade the server hosting the role. If you only upgrade the
main server, the roles hosted on the expansion servers that are not yet upgraded
work in backward compatibility mode.
IMPORTANT: If you upgrade the
LPR Manager, the Archiver it is linked to must also be upgraded. The upgraded LPR
Manager would not work if the Archiver is working in backward compatibility
mode.
Procedure
After you finish
- Starting from 5.7 GA, many privileges that used to be exclusive to
administrators can now be granted individually. Although your previous settings
will continue to work, you might want to use this opportunity to revise the
privileges of your user groups, granting to each group only the privileges they
need.CAUTION:Users who were system administrators or partition administrators before the upgrade to 5.7 will keep their privileges. Users who were not adminsitrators who had either the privilege to change logical IDs or to create event-to-actions will loose these privileges after the upgrade. If you want them to keep these privileges, you must grant them explicitly the Modify logical IDs privilege or the Modify event-to-actions privilege.
- If the file
AllowedSynchronizationConfiguration.xml was used to
set the synchronization times of your HID VertX units, the settings must be
re-applied manually from Config
Tool after the
upgrade.Tip: Configure one unit with the required synchronization settings, then use the Copy configuration tool to set the same settings on multiple units.
- If AutoVu™ is enabled, migrate the LPR databases to the Security Center 5.7 SR2 structure.