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This page provides instructions for upgrading a FlexDeploy installation to the latest version.

Upgrade Instructions

It is recommended that a backup of the artifact repository file system be taken in case a back-out is required. The location of the artifact repository was identified in the first step of this document. Standard file backup procedures can be followed. Optionally, the following command (unix only) can be used to create a tar file backup of the entire directory.

tar –cvzf artifact.tar.gz <artifact repository location>

1. Stop the Tomcat server
   
   

2. Backup the FlexDeploy schemas
   
   For back-out purposes, it is highly recommended that a database backup of the Oracle database be taken using standard tools like RMAN. Another option would be to export the FD, FD_ADMIN, and FF schemas using data pump. The schemas can be exported using the following data pump command:

   Tip
   expdp system directory=DATA_PUMP_DIR dumpfile=fd_bkup.dmp schemas=FD,FF,FD_ADMIN If this database is exclusively used for just FlexDeploy application, you can rely on Database backup and recovery processes (RMAN) instead of export data procedure.

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Backup Artifact repository.

1. Upgrade the FlexDeploy schemas
   
   

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   FlexDeploy Schema Upgrade FlexDeploy Schema Upgrade

   
   
   
2. From the FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution, copy /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/webapps/flexdeploy.war into <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps (overwrite existing file).
   
   
3. If using the Salesforce integration, from the FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution, copy /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib/ant-salesforce.jar into <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib
   
4. If using IBM ClearCase, you will need to copy some jar files from your ClearCase server to the FlexDeploy installation
   1. Copy all of the jar files found in the com.ibm.rational.teamapi_8.0.1.vxxx folder of your ClearCase server to <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib. 
   
   
   
5. Start tomcat by running the following script
   
   1. <TOMCAT_HOME>/bin/startup.sh (startup.bat on Windows)
      
      
6. Launch FlexDeploy in your browser - http://<hostname>:<port>/flexdeploy
   
   
7. Refer to the Installing/Upgrading Plugins to install new plugins.