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Question
How to Upgrade Guardium S-TAP agents with GIM when A-TAP is being used (ATAP_ENABLED=1)
Answer
There are different actions to take when upgrading - depending on which Platform the DB server is on .
From the related information Guardium S-TAP and A-TAP you can see that
A-TAP is used for monitoring the following:
- ASO encrypted traffic for Oracle (versions 9, 10 and 11) on AIX, HPUX, Solaris and Linux
- SSL encrypted traffic for Oracle (versions 10 and 11) on Linux, AIX, Solaris and HPUX (platforms supporting LD_PRELOAD)
- SSL encrypted traffic for Sybase(version 15) on AIX(AIX 5.3 with LDR_PRELOAD patch or newer only), Solaris(SPARC), and Linux(32bit).
- Shared memory traffic for DB2 and Informix on Linux
Instrumentation is only used for Oracle A-TAP activation. Also note the section from the related information A-TAP
- A-TAP configuration on AIX
Note - If A-TAP is not being used (eg ATAP_ENABLED=0) then there is no need to do any deinstrumentation / deactivation before the S-TAP upgrade.
Note details here on ATAP specifics in When to Restart, When to Reboot
- What must be restarted after a live upgrade of UNIX/Linux S-TAP
- No restarts are necessary at all for live upgrades that do not include ATAP.
and also
- Finally, ATAP should be deactivated and de-instrumented prior to any S-TAP upgrades (not necessary for GIM bundle upgrades).
and also
- Database instances which require ATAP must be stopped prior to instrumenting (if required) and activation.
Related Information
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