How to Simulate the Installation of a New Content Pack

  • Document ID:KM03765032
  • Creation Date:26-Nov-2020
  • Modified Date:26-Nov-2020
    • Micro Focus Products:
      universal cmdb 2019.11

Summary

Procedure to simulate the Installation of a New Content Pack for Universal CMDB 2019.11

Question

Procedure to simulate the Installation of a New Content Pack for Universal CMDB 2019.11

Answer

Before installing a new content pack, you may want to know the difference between the new content pack and your current one.

You can simulate the installation of a new content pack to get a report of the comparison results called upgrade_report.csv by following these steps:

Note Simulating the installation of a new content pack does not install anything, it only generates a difference report by leveraging the capability of comparing and merging content packs. For details about the report, see Compare and Merge.
  1. If the required content pack is unavailable on the UCMDB server, obtain it from the UD Content Packs ITOM Marketplace.
  2. Download the ZIP file and extract it to your local drive.
  3. Access CMS UI, click CMS Modules 11.0 Browser/New UI/Images/Home UCMDBModules.png, go to the Administration > Package Manager module and then click 11.0 Browser/New UI/Images/PM InstallPackage.png.
  4. In the Install Package pane that opens, click the CONTENT PACK tab.
  5. Click the Upload Package field, select the required content pack from your local drive, and then click  Open.

  6. Select the version of the content pack, and then click SIMULATE. 

    Note Only the current content pack or newer versions of content packs can be displayed under Version.

  7. Results

    You can check the simulated installation progress in the notification area. When the simulated installation is complete, a message with the results of the simulated installation appears. Click the download link to get the report.

    If you close the notification area after the simulated installation, the download link is no longer available. You can get the report from the <UCMDB_Server>/runtime/log/package_reports/customer_<customerId>/cpUpgrade/<cpVersion>/<timestamp> folder.