Upgrading to Automic Automation v21

At the end of this course you will be aware of the new features, improvements and enhancements introduced to the Automic Web Interface, the Automation Engine, the Service Manager, Analytics and the Action Builder plugin.

This course is relevant for system administrators who are in charge of installing and upgrading Automic Automation. It guides you through and demonstrates the process to upgrade Automic Automation from version 12.3 to version 21 on a Windows platform. The Unix upgrade is virtually the same.

This training helps administrators understand the architecture of the on-prem version of Automic Automation v21. The course describes how to install Automic Automation and provides videos for each step in the sequence.

It includes details on operation system requirements, on each component and sub-component, and on the basic installation configuration. You will gain a good understanding of the role of the INI files and their configurations as well as the various executables and permissions needed to successfully start up an Automic Automation environment.

This course is focused upon helping administrators configure Automic Automation so that users can start working with it. It is a deep dive in some of the most important tasks that an administrator must perform to configure and get an Automic Automation system started.

The course describes and demonstrates how to configure the various INI files, logs and traces, system and Client settings, how to define object templates and transfer objects from one system to another. It explains the Automation Engine processes and how to control them, the Service Manager and the database utilities. It also describes the various Agent authentication methods and, finally, how to upgrade the system and the Agents.

This course explains the Zero Downtime Upgrade (ZDU), Automic Automation's feature to upgrade to a newer version while processes and operations continue as usual.