Standard Upgrade Instructions

Owned by Gary Parden
Nov 11, 2015
2 min read

These are the general steps that you should always follow when upgrading and existing CenterView instance from one release to another.

Some releases contain special instructions.

When planning an upgrade, please check the special instructions for each intermediate release and follow the additional steps as indicated.

Contents

Before Upgrading

Check the pre-requisites for the release and that you will be able to perform the necessary upgrades if there have been any changes to minimum versions.

The pre-requisites include:

  • Java
  • Tomcat
  • Database

See the main release notes for the specific release for detailed requirements.

Upgrade

Backup your Database

Ensure that you have a recent full backup of your database. If, for any reason, you need to rollback (see "Rollback Upgrade" below), your CenterView configuration and data will revert to this point.

Stop Tomcat

Stop Tomcat. Centerview will not be available to users until the upgrade is complete.

Environment

If necessary, upgrade to supported versions of Java, Tomcat and Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL / MariaDB.

See above for details.

Unzip the CenterView Release

Unzip the CenterView release package into a temporary directory.

We will refer to the new CenterView release as $RELEASE.

Install the new Webapp into Tomcat

Move the live centerview installation, i.e. the directory $TOMCAT/webapps/centerview, to an archive location.

E.g. on unix/linux: mv $TOMCAT/webapps/centerview $ARCHIVE/centerview-<current date>

Copy $RELEASE/webapp/centerview to $TOMCAT/webapps.

E.g. on unix/linux: cp $RELEASE/webapp/centerview $TOMCAT/webapps/centerview

Copy the following files from the WEB-INF/classes directory in the archive of the live installation into the corresponding directry in the new centerview webapp:

  • centerview-datasource.xml
  • centerview-instance.xml
  • centerview-domains.xml
  • log4j.properties

E.g. copy $CV_ARCHIVE/centerview-<current date>/WEB-INF/classes, to $TOMCAT/webapps/centerview/WEB-INF/classes

Upgrade the Database

Run all migration scripts run in sequence from the starting version to this version e.g.:

E.g. for Oracle users:

cd $RELEASE/schema/oracle/migration/X.Y
sqlplus myUsername/myPassword @migrate_schema_from_x_y_z_to_X_Y_Z.sql

E.g. for SQL Server users:

cd $RELEASE/schema/sqlserver/migration/X.Y
sqlcmd -S myServer\myInstance -U myUsername -P myPassword -d myDatabase -i migrate_schema_from_x_y_z_to_X_Y_Z.sql

Re-start Tomcat

Complete

The upgrade is now complete.