Note the following information that should be taken into consideration before you begin the upgrade process.

One Identity Manager system requirements

Some of the system requirements for One Identity Manager have changed in version 8.1. Prior to upgrading Data Governance Edition, ensure that the minimum requirements for all of the One Identity Manager components are meet. See the One Identity Manager Installation Guide for full details on One Identity Manager's system requirements.

Upgrading an existing One Identity Manager installation

Review the One Identity Manager Release Notes for important information regarding upgrading an existing One Identity Manager installation to version 8.x. There are some additional steps that are required. For example:

• You need at least one dialog user with administrative permissions that has a password assigned; otherwise, the schema update cannot be completed successfully.
• You must upload and update some DLLs in your 7.x.x installation prior to upgrading to 8.x, otherwise auto-update will not work properly.

• To successfully compile HTML applications with the Configuration wizard, you must download packages from the NPM repository. Ensure that the workstation running the Configuration wizard can establish a connection to the web site registry.npmjs.org.

  Alternatively, you can download the packages from a proxy server and make them available manually. For more information, see the knowledge base article: https://support.oneidentity.com/kb/266000.

One Identity Manager Database system requirements (SQL Server)

As of version 8.1, the One Identity Manager database must be running a minimum of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition, Service Pack 2 with the latest cumulative update. Earlier versions of SQL server are no longer supported.

Prior to running the Configuration Wizard (ConfigWizard.exe) to upgrade and configure the One Identity Manager database, set the database compatibility level to 130:

One Identity Manager permissions

During the installation or upgrade of the One Identity Manager database, you can specify whether you want to use a more fine-grained set of SQL permissions to access the SQL server. With this more granular permission set, the Configuration wizard creates SQL Server logins and database roles with the necessary permissions for administrative users, configuration users, and end users. For more detailed information about permissions, see the One Identity Manager Installation Guide.

If you select to use this more granular permission set, adjust the configuration parameter after updating the One Identity Manager. This affects, for example, the connection data for the database (DialogDatabase), the One Identity Manager Service, the Application Server, the administration and configuration tools, the web applications, the web services, and the connection data in synchronization projects.

Agent system requirements

As of Data Governance Edition version 7.0.2, there are new system requirements for Data Governance agents. Ensure your agents meet the system requirements:

• .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) is required.
• Agents running the Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system are no longer supported.

EMC system requirements

EMC Common Event Enabler (CEE) 7.1 is the minimum version now supported for scanning and resource activity collection.

• If you are using EMC Celerra/VNX devices with multiple CIFS exposed virtual data movers, do not upgrade to Data Governance Edition version 7.0.2 (or later).
• If you are using EMC Isilon devices or EMC Celerra/VNX devices with only physical CIFS exposed data movers, each Data Governance agent managing an EMC device must run on a different host server and point to its own local CEE 7.1. Each managed EMC storage device needs to specify the single CEE server where the Data Governance agent is running.

The Quest Shared EMC Connector server is no longer used as of Data Governance Edition version 7.0.2.

• If Change Auditor is configured to collect activity from your EMC storage device using the Quest Shared EMC Connector, and you would like activity collection or aggregation in Data Governance Edition, you MUST configure Data Governance Edition to collect activity directly from Change Auditor. You will not be able to collect activity directly from your EMC device with both Change Auditor and Data Governance Edition.

• If you have EMC managed hosts currently using the Quest Shared EMC Connector server, follow this procedure to ensure this connector service is removed from your Data Governance Edition deployment:

  1. Uninstall EMC CEE framework.
  2. Uninstall Quest Shared EMC Connector service (QCeeService).
  3. Install EMC CEE 7.1 framework on the same server as the Data Governance agent.

  4. Modify the following registry key to ensure "Dell" or "QuestSoftware" is no longer referenced:

     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EMC\CEE\CEPP\Audit\Configuration

     • Enabled: Set to 0
     • Endpoint: Remove "Dell" or "QuestSoftware"

Custom agent registry settings

Legacy Data Governance agent registry settings are no longer available as of Data Governance Edition version 7.0.2. You can use the agent's configuration file to modify agent configurations that are not available in the Manager client. Previously set agent registry settings need to be reviewed and will need to be re-set using the corresponding configuration file setting or Manager setting. For more information on the configuration file settings available, see the One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition Technical Insight Guide.

Custom Data Governance server configuration settings

The upgrade process preserves any configuration changes previously made to the DataGovernanceEdition.Service.exe.config file (which can be found in the server directory: %ProgramFiles%\One Identity\One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition\Server). For more information about the configuration file settings available, see the One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition Technical Insight Guide.

Previously governed or published files

Beginning with Data Governance Edition version 7.0.2, you can no longer govern or publish files to the IT Shop. However,

• Previously published (those that are both governed and published) files are still available in the IT Shop.
• Previously governed (but not published) files can be published to the IT Shop.

NFS managed hosts

Beginning with version 7.0.2, Data Governance Edition supports the scanning of NAS devices with NFS file system protocol enabled, including NetApp 7-Mode, NetApp Cluster and EMC Isilon devices. If you want to take advantage of this new feature, be sure to add the UNIX module during the upgrade process. For more information, see Upgrading One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition.

If you upgrade to Data Governance Edition version 7.0.2 (or later), but do not add the UNIX module as part of the initial upgrade; but later want NFS support, you must select to upgrade the Data Governance Edition module in addition to adding the UNIX module when running the One Identity Manager Configuration wizard.