Upgrade Plant Applications to Version 8.1

About this task

This topic describes how to upgrade Plant Applications to version 8.1 to work with Proficy MDC.

Procedure

  1. Access the AWS DMS console, and stop incremental task for the site. To do so, perform the following steps:
    1. Select the database, select the migration task, and then click on Actions.
    2. Select Stop.
  2. Switch to the simple recovery mode.
  3. Install Plant Applications version 8.1. To do so, perform the following steps:
    1. Remove Workflow tables from the article list by running the script for version 6.2 or 6.3.
    2. Install the license key for Plant Applications.
    3. Install Plant Applications.
    4. After Workflow version 2.6 SP1 is installed, stop the following services:
      • Proficy Publisher Service
      • Proficy Server
      • Proficy STS
    5. Install the remaining components of Plant Applications.
  4. After Plant Applications is installed, stop the following services:
    • Proficy Publisher Service
    • Proficy Server
    • Proficy STS
  5. Switch to full recovery mode.
  6. Back up the Microsoft SQL server.
  7. Start the task and resume it.

Results

Plant Applications is now upgraded to version 8.1 to work with Proficy MDC.