Experience Portal software upgrade on a single server overview

Interactive EPM upgrade

The Experience Portal software upgrade on a single server is an Interactive upgrade.

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

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

	Tip:
	In Experience Portal 7.0.1, the certificate generation code was enhanced to use a more secure hashing algorithm. Avaya recommends that you generate a SHA256 2048 bit server certificate (the new security certificate) to make the systems more secure.

Local WebLM license invalidated in upgrades from AEP 8.0/8.1/8.1.1 to AEP 8.1.2

For upgrades from AEP 8.0/8.1/8.1.1 to AEP 8.1.2 (or later), WebLM is upgraded from 7.1 to 8.1. When the WebLM is upgraded, the WebLM host ID changes, which in turn invalidates the current WebLM AEP license and sets the WebLM UI admin password back to the default value. Any added WebLM users are also deleted.

Licensing enters a 30 day grace mode. Avaya must generate a new license by using the new host ID. The old license file is stored in the /opt/Avaya/InstallLogs/WebLM71/OldLicense directory.