Resources: hippoRENT - Upgrading Your Older Rental System to Version 5.0

Welcome to hippoRENT v5.0!

Welcome to the latest version of hippoRENT, with several major new features as well as hundreds of minor improvements and tweaks. We’ve tried to make it as easy possible to upgrade your existing version 3 or version 4 rental boxes and servers (vendors should simply be replaced) to 5.0 and various methods are described below.

Upgrading a network with a Server in it

If you’re using a rental server (not web-enabled), you should begin by upgrading that first. It will lose its list of rental boxes but, as each rental box automatically contacts the server every two hours, the new server will eventually catch up with the rental boxes.

To upgrade your server, rez the Upgrade Disc: hippoRENT Rental Box to v5.0 next to your server and follow the instructions it chats to you.

Once your server has been upgraded, you can proceed to the steps below to upgrade your boxes.

Important note: version 5.0 servers can manage old version boxes but the box list may look a little odd until you update your boxes (see below). This is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about!

Upgrading Rental Boxes

There are two ways to upgrade rental boxes to version 5.0. Method 1 is simpler, but slightly slower. Method 2 is more technical but, if you’re a Second Life whizz kid, may be quicker.

Method 1

• Rez the Upgrade Disc: hippoRENT Rental Box to v5.0 next to the rental box you wish to upgrade. (If you’re upgrading a web-enabled rental box, use the Upgrade Disc: hippoRENT Rental Box (Web-Enabled) to v5.0 instead, as it will upgrade the box and your web plugin module at the same time).
  
  
• Follow the instructions it chats to you. (It will ask you to touch the rental box and issue an 'Update' voice command).
  
  
• Wait until the disc reports the upgrade has successfully been carried out; the rental box will then reset itself. No tenancy data will be lost.
  
  
• Repeat for each rental box you have.

Method 2

• Rez a brand new version 5.0 rental box next to your old version 3 or version 4 box.
  
  
• Replace the configuration card in the new box with the configuration card from the old box, via whichever method you prefer.
  
  
• If the old box is rented, copy the description of the prim (right click the box, choose Edit, to see it). The description will be a series of data items, separated by the ^ symbol.
  
  
• Click the new box, choose ‘Voice Cmd’ from the menu that appears, then type LOAD followed by what you just copied, e.g.
  
  LOAD Pathfinder Linden^12^2006-12-14^37982^0e9fd382-7f9b-4ea4-8cb8-4228747b04bc^0


• The new box will load up the old tenancy and, since it has the configuration details of the old box, will now be an exact mirror of it.
  
  
• You can now delete the old box.
  
  
• If you’re using the web-enabled version of the rental boxes, you can achieve a similar effect using the copy configuration tool (at the bottom of the box configuration page) and the copy tenancy command.

We recommend to all customers that they join the Hippo Technologies Users Group in Second Life. It’s a friendly community and lots of advice, tips and support can often be found by asking nicely! Drop Andy Enfield an IM to request a group invite.

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