Installing Fixes from an Image
You can download fixes from Empower into an image and then install the fixes from the image on one or more machines. Use this method when:
The machines that host the products on which you want to install fixes cannot go outside your corporate firewall (that is, cannot connect to
Empower).
You want to install some or all of the same fixes on multiple machines that are running the same operating system, and want to avoid the time required to download from
Empower.
You want to store a specific version of each fix so you can install the same fixes versions on multiple machines over time.
Empower provides only the latest versions of fixes, so the version of a fix that is available now on
Empower might be replaced by a later version in the future. An image always contains the versions of the fixes that you downloaded into it.
Software AG recommends creating images to ensure consistency across product installations over time, especially if you have a long fix verification and promotion cycle.
You want to make sure you can install fixes at any time, regardless of whether production servers are locked down or have special access controls.
Make sure the machine on which you install fixes from an image has free disk space at least twice the size of the installation image. For example, if you have a 1GB image MyImage.zip in C:\MyDirectory, the file system on C:\ must have at least 2GB free disk space available.
To install fixes from an image:
1. Start the Update Manager application (command line or graphic interface).
2. Browse to the location of the saved fix image file.
3. Select a product directory for which to install fixes or specify a test patch key to find a specific support patch for the selected product installation.
You can also specify the location of a script that uses the image from which you want to install fixes.
4. Check which fixes are available for a product. You can view the fix contents and readme of each fix on the list.
Read the readmes of the fixes you intend to install to check for critical information or steps you must perform before or after you install the fixes.
5. Select the fixes you want to install from the product tree.
If a product requires a shutdown before fix updates, Update Manager will ask you for the product connection details to shut down the product. Update Manager installs the selected fixes and any other fixes that the selected fixes depend on or require.