Preparing to Upgrade the Ecosystem Pack
Complete these pre-upgrade steps for each ecosystem component in the EEP that you want to upgrade.
For the components provided in each EEP, see the EEP Release Notes.
These steps are intended primarily for ecosystem-component upgrades performed manually (without the Installer). However, you need to perform some pre-upgrade steps even if you are upgrading using the Installer.
Stopping each service is optional if you are using the Installer because the Installer stops all services before upgrading. But the Installer does NOT back up configuration files.
IMPORTANT
Regardless of the upgrade method that you use, follow the pre-upgrade
steps for backing up your configuration files before upgrading. The upgrade process replaces
your current configuration files with new configuration files that contain default values for
the release to which are upgrading. Any custom settings are lost and must be migrated manually
as part of the post-upgrade steps.