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This page provides instructions for upgrading a FlexDeploy installation. These instructions upgrade Tomcat to the version included in the distribution zip depending on current version of FlexDeploy.

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Make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of FlexDeploy and unzip it into a temporary location (for example, /u01/software), so it can be accessed during the upgrade process. You can get download links from http://support.flexagon.com. Do not unzip the FlexDeploy distribution directly into the FLEXDEPLOY_HOME directory so we can prevent unwanted file(s) or folder(s) from being overwritten.

Note that following instructions show unzip being done in separate folder than where you have stored downloaded file.

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See the following example. Make sure to backup apache-tomcat-flexdeploy folder as that is going to be replaced during next steps.

Linux

cd <artifact repository location>/
tar -cvzf ../artifacts.tar.gz *

# The plugins folder may not exist yet depending which version of FlexDeploy you are upgrading from
cd <server application directory>
cd plugins
tar -cvzf ../plugins.tar.gz *

# apache-tomcat-flexdeploy (if apache-tomcat-flexdeploy-old exists then use some other folder name)
cd $FLEXDEPLOY_HOME
mv apache-tomcat-flexdeploy apache-tomcat-flexdeploy-old

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Step 5. Apply new version

You must have performed backup of apache-tomcat-flexdeploy folder by now as described in Step 3. If you have not done that, please go back to Step 3 for details.

Note on additional extension jar files : If you had placed additional libraries in apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib folder or in the apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/libext folder, then you will need to copy them from backup folder into the new apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/libext folder. Note that all extension jars should be kept in libext folder. Examples might be JDBC driver (for Oracle drivers there is additional detail in the following step), CyberArk libraries etc. Note that Tomcat jar files should never be kept in libext folder.

• Copy shell/bat scripts from root folder of extracted FlexDeploy download zip

• Copy new Tomcat folder from extracted FlexDeploy download zip

• Copy additional jar files from backup taken in step 3

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Change the following locations: You must put absolute path as no environment variables are allowed in this file.

• bolt-path: from <FLEXDEPLOY_HOME>/influxdb/data/influxd.bolt to <FLEXDEPLOY_HOME>/application/vsm/data/influxd.bolt

• engine-path: from <FLEXDEPLOY_HOME>/influxdb/data/engine to <FLEXDEPLOY_HOME>/application/vsm/data/engine

• sqlite-path: <FLEXDEPLOY_HOME>/influxdb/data/influxd.sqlite to <FLEXDEPLOY_HOME>/application/vsm/data/influxd.sqlit

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cd %FLEXDEPLOY_HOME%\influxdb
set INFLUX_DB_PASSWORD=<arbitrary value>
rmdir /s <user directory>\.influxdbv2
influx setup --bucket flexbucket --token %INFLUX_DB_TOKEN% --org flexdeploy --username=flexuser --password=%INFLUX_DB_PASSWORD% --host=http://localhost:8086 --rem force

rem need to adjust the influx database retention policy
influx bucket list
ID                      Name            Retention       Shard group duration    Organization ID Schema Type
8eec65b90f79c55e        _monitoring     168h0m0s        24h0m0s                 9050d0dddc192df9implicit
4d6413cbaad04850        _tasks          72h0m0s         24h0m0s                 9050d0dddc192df9implicit
a3521682726cd901        flexbucket      infinite        168h0m0s                9050d0dddc192df9implicit

rem take the ID value for the flexbucket (Name) so we can update the retention policy to 104 weeks or 2 years
influx bucket update --id a3521682726cd901 --retention 104w

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