Auxiliary EPM software upgrade overview

Interactive EPM upgrade

You can upgrade to Experience Portal 8.1 using the Manual or Interactive upgrade method.

On the Auxiliary EPM server, launch the Experience Portal installation program and answer the prompts.

Important:

Upgrade the Primary EPM server before the Auxiliary EPM server. While upgrading the Auxiliary EPM server, you are prompted for the following details related to the Primary EPM server:

IP address of the Primary EPM server so that the system can retrieve the security certificate. To ensure that the system retrieves the updated certificate from the Primary server, upgrade the Primary server first.
The vpcommon password that was specified during the Primary EPM upgrade. This user account allows the Auxiliary EPM server limited access to the main Experience Portal database.

During the Interactive upgrade, you can make changes to the configurations.