Voyager Upgrade to Version 7.2.5 on July 8-11, 2011

Revised 7/12/2011

Announcements

July 12, 2011 - Update on current Voyager issues
July 11, 2011 - Overview of Voyager Problems and Outages
July 11, 2011 - I-Share back online after upgrade to Voyager 7.2.5. The upgrade to Voyager 7.2.5 was successful and access to I-Share public catalogs has been restored.

July 5, 2011 - This is just a reminder that I-Share (CARLI's Voyager system) will be offline this coming weekend beginning at 5pm, Friday July 8, to upgrade to Voyager version 7.2.5, and will remain offline until 6am, Monday July 11. No access to the public catalog (union catalog or local catalogs) [or Voyager staff clients] will be available during the upgrade. For detailed information on tasks to do before, during and after the upgrade, see the I-Share upgrade webpage [below].

Please note that this upgrade does require the new, version 7.2.5, Voyager staff client software to be installed on library desktop computers to replace the Voyager clients currently in use. Links to the 7.2.5 clients will be available on the upgrade page later this week. Please note that the 7.2.5 clients cannot connect to Voyager until the server upgrade is successfully completed. CARLI offers a Voyager Client Update Checker to I-Share libraries that can help automate the client update process. Use of the Update checker is optional; more information on it is available on the upgrade webpage [below], or directly at this url: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-prod/I-Share/secure/execute.html#update

After the Voyager upgrade is completed on the I-Share production servers, CARLI staff will upgrade the CARLI reports server, (reports.carli.illinois.edu) to Voyager 7.2.5 as well. This will entail downtime for the reports server and will impact staff who use it for reporting and/or use of the Gary Strawn utilities. We anticipate that this outage will run from July 12 through July 15. We will send more detail about the report server status in a separate email tomorrow.
June 22, 2011 - From Friday, July 8, 2011, 5pm CDT until Monday, July 11, 2011, 6am CDT CARLI’s Voyager system will be upgraded to the latest version of the Voyager software, and the Oracle database system that supports it will also be upgraded. All Classic WebVoyáge and VuFind local catalogs, the VuFind union catalog, and all staff Voyager client access will be completely offline during the upgrade period. During the upgrade, users attempting to access the online catalog will see a message indicating that the system is offline for upgrade. This message will also provide a link to the CARLI System Status page (http://blog.carli.illinois.edu/sys-status/) where the latest status of the upgrade will be posted. Circulation staff may take advantage of the Voyager offline backup circulation process if they desire. New Voyager staff clients will be required on all desktop computers that support staff functions.

Library Tasks before the Upgrade to the Production Databases

Required

Make sure your computers meet the minimum requirements outlined

Document your current preferences in all Voyager clients

Optional

Read ExLibris Documentation, including: Release Notes, Release Handbooks, and User's Guides (see Documentation below).

If desired, install CARLI's Voyager Client Update Checker on your PCs.

Library Workflows/Tasks During Upgrade

Optional

When applicable, use the Offline Backup Circulation function to record charges during system downtime.

Library Tasks After the Upgrade

Required

If you used Offline Backup Circulation during the upgrade, make a back up copy (in a folder other than the Voyager folder) of your Offline Capture File.

If you did not use CARLI's Voyager Client Update Checker, you will need to download and install the new Voyager 7.2.5 staff clients.

If you used Offline Backup Circulation during the upgrade downtime, load your Offline Capture File.

(If Applicable) Reinstall/upgrade any of the Gary Strawn programs present on staff PCs. This must be done after the Voyager 7.2.5 clients have been installed.

Optional

If you did not use CARLI's Voyager Client Update Checker (and have not updated the tag tables locally/downloaded them from the CARLI website as changes have been made since the last upgrade), staff that use the cataloging client may wish to download and install the latest consortial tag tables to their PC. The latest tag tables are available from http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-prod/I-Share/cat.html. Instructions for downloading the tag tables are available from http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-prod/I-Share/secure/cat/tags/tagtables_download.pdf

Documentation

Voyager 7.2 User's Guides

Voyager 7.2 Acquisitions User's Guide
Voyager 7.2 Call Slip Daemon User's Guide
Voyager 7.2 Cataloging User's Guide
Voyager 7.2 Circulation User's Guide
Voyager 7.2 Reporter User's Guide
Voyager 7.2 System Administration User's Guide
Voyager 7.2 Technical User's Guide

Voyager 6.5 Universal Borrowing User's Guide

Voyager with Unicode Universal Catalog User's Guide

Voyager Release Handbooks and Release Notes (All functionality and bug fixes listed in earlier versions of Voyager 7 are included in the current version.)

Voyager 7.1.1 Release Notes
Voyager 7.2.0 Release Notes
Voyager 7.2.1 Release Notes
Voyager 7.2.2 Release Notes
Voyager 7.2.3 Release Notes
Voyager 7.2.4 Release Notes
Voyager 7.2.5 Release Notes