Summary of upgrade from version 6.5 to version 6.8
Several upgrade tasks are new or require special consideration with this
upgrade. Apply upgrade tasks as appropriate for your system design, as follows:
- All systems:
- SiteConfig: Before upgrading GV STRATUS, upgrade your SiteConfig application and Discovery Agent to the latest version. For more info, refer to Grass Valley products compatible with GV STRATUS.
- Password encryption: To enable password encryption in GV STRATUS system after the software upgrade, you must run the Key Upgrade Utility on the GV STRATUS Core server. For more info, refer to Upgrade GV STRATUS system with the Key Upgrade Utility.
- Summit MDIs: Summit MDI has been renamed to Grass Valley Media Server MDI type in the MDI Configuration settings of GV STRATUS Control Panel. You must reconfigure MDI settings for all K2 Summit Standalone, K2 SAN, K2 Central, and Third Party Storage systems in this release. For more details, refer to Grass Valley Media Server MDI standalone settings, Grass Valley Media Server MDI SAN settings, GV STRATUS Control Panel configuration for K2 Central, and GV STRATUS Control Panel configuration for SMB storage.
- GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server SiteConfig roles: These new SiteConfig roles for Standalone or SMB third party storage client must be assigned to GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server before upgrading the GV STRATUS system, if applicable. For more details, refer to Add software roles for upgrade to version 6.8.
- DIVA Archive categories: GV STRATUS supports multiple DIVA archive categories with this release. The Diva Category Update Utility must be run on the GV STRATUS Core server after the software deployment. For more info, refer to DIVA Categories Add/Modify Field settings and Upgrade GV STRATUS system with the DIVA Category Update Utility.
- GV STRATUS Rules Backup: If you exported an XML file backup of your actual rules before the upgrade, those rules cannot be used anymore once you upgrade to version 6.8 due to the new encryption support. You must import the XML file backup into GV STRATUS system after the upgrade. Then, export your rules again and re-import them to enable the encryption. For more info, refer to Exporting rules and Importing rules.
- Internal system account: If the internal system account for your GV STRATUS system is on a fully qualified domain or is not the default GVAdmin account, configure settings at GV STRATUS Control Panel Core | STRATUS Core Services | Primary Site as appropriate for your system.
- Systems with Windows 2008 servers:
- Requires an upgrade to Windows 2012 or Windows 2016 operating system. For more details, refer to Upgrade GV STRATUS server OS from Windows 2008/2012 to Windows 2016.