Steps to upgrade Discoverer 4i to 11g

Hi,
Can you one please let me know what are the steps required to upgrade 4i to 11g.
Thanks,
Sri

Hi Sri,
The below site may help u.
http://oracle.anilpassi.com/discoverer-4i-to-discoverer-10g-migration-steps-2.html
http://anilpassi.com/apps/demo/discoverer/10gMigration/Oracle_BI_10g_Install_Migration.pdf
Thanks,
Jegan

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1. How can I upgrade the Time zone version before upgrading the database to 11g, if there is no patch available.
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3) Build out the new system using VMWare (or some other virtualization solution) to test your configurations that you saved in Excel. (This will also let you get the new spreadsheets so you can know what data you need for the import.) This will help you ensure that you do not have any syntax errors. For us, we were migrating from virtual to virtual, so the system we tested on became our new PROD and we simply deleted the old VMs after verifying the new worked. Do not have your cameras run on both systems though. From my experience, you will be fine to pre-provision the cameras to the test system, but do not have streams going to both simultaneously.
4) After you have tested your install and configurations, perform a full install on your Production system and load your configs.
This process worked extremely well for me because we have a fairly simple configuration. All our cameras are Cisco except for a few analog cameras that have been connected to Cisco-encoders. We have only two templates, which we documented manually instead of writing SQL since there were so few. Since we were virtualized, we could easily keep PROD up while we pre-provisioned the new system. If something didn't work, we could easily revert to the old system. I highly recommend testing this in a virtual lab first, because from my experience, I had to go through a couple of iterations in my SQL code to format the data and capture what was needed properly. The syntax can be a bit tricky your first time through. Also, verify (using the 7.2.1) release notes that all your devices are supported and at a supported level of code. For us, some of our cameras were not at supported levels and experienced dropped frames every few seconds until we upgraded these to supported code.
If your config is complex and you don't feel comfortable with the above steps, I recommend going with Scott's solution and seek help from a third party. Also, according to my recent conversation with TAC, skip 7.2.0 and go straight to 7.2.1. Apparently, there was a bad bug in the first one that, if encountered, could result in the loss of archives.
Hope this helps.

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