Planning Control Manager 2.5x Agent and MCP Migration

There are two ways to migrate Control Manager 2.5x agents and MCP to Control Manager 5.0 server:

• Rapid upgrade

  • Trend Micro recommends rapid upgrade for migrating agents in a laboratory setting or in relatively small networks, preferably during test deployments. However, since you cannot stop the migration after it starts, this method works best for smaller deployments, and the degree of difficulty increases with the size of the network.

  Rapid upgrade works using the following approach:

  Original Server/Agent	Action
  Control Manager 3.0 with Control Manager 2.5x agents	Registers Control Manager 2.5x agents to Control Manager 5.0 server; Control Manager agents maintain their original Product Directory structure
  Control Manager 3.0 with mixed agents	Control Manager agents: Registers Control Manager 2.5x agents to Control Manager 5.0 server; Control Manager agents maintain their original Product Directory structure MCP Registers MCP to Control Manager 5.0 server; MCP maintain their original Product Directory structure
  Control Manager 3.5/5.0 with MCP	Registers MCP to Control Manager 5.0 server; MCP maintain their original Product Directory structure
  Control Manager 3.5/5.0 with mixed agents	Control Manager agents: Registers Control Manager 2.5x agents to Control Manager 5.0 server; Control Manager agents maintain their original Product Directory structure MCP Registers MCP to Control Manager 5.0 server; MCP maintain their original Product Directory structure

• Phased upgrade

  Trend Micro recommends a phased upgrade for large, single-server Control Manager 3.0/3.5/5.0 networks; and is essential for multiple-server networks. It offers a more structured approach to migrating your system, and follows these guidelines:

  • Start migration on systems with the least impact on the existing network, and then proceed to the systems with progressively greater impact

  • Upgrade the old network in well-planned stages, rather than all at once

  This will simplify any troubleshooting that may be required.

  Phased upgrade involves the following steps:

  1. Install Control Manager 5.0 on a server that does not have a previous Control Manager version installed (preferably without any managed product).

  2. Run the AgentMigrateTool.exe tool on the Trend Control Manager 5.0 server.

Use RemoteInstall.exe together with the Agent Migration tool to plan the upgrade of agents on existing Control Manager networks. The Agent Migration tool can generate a list of servers with Control Manager agents. Doing so eliminates the need to manually select the agent servers.