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This page provides instructions for upgrading a FlexDeploy installation from version 5.4 and later. You will continue to run Tomcat 9.0.34.

Make sure you have downloaded new version of FlexDeploy and unzipped it, so it can be accessed during upgrade process.

Upgrade Instructions

Step 1. Stop the Tomcat server. Use shutdown.sh on Linux and shutdown.bat on Windows.

Step 2. Backup the FlexDeploy schemas and Artifact Repository. In case you need to back out FlexDeploy, you can use these backup data.

For back-out purposes, it is highly recommended that a database backup of the database be taken using standard tools like RMAN for Oracle. 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 for Oracle as shown below. Follow standard procedures for PostgreSQL and MySQL for database backup.

You will need to setup environment variables before running expdp. For example,

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1
export ORACLE_SID=fd01

export statements above are for example only as values will be different for your installation. 

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.

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 can be identified by looking at value of -Dflexagon.fd.repository.root in setenv.sh or setenv.bat file. This file will be in <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/bin/. 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.

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

Step 3. Upgrade the FlexDeploy schemas

Step 4. From the FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution, copy /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/webapps/flexdeploy.war into <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/webapps (overwrite existing file). If you want to take backup of existing file, please copy it outside of FlexDeploy installation folder to avoid confusion later. If you keep copy of older war in webapps folder, then two applications will start and cause issues as well.

Step 5. Review <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/conf/context.xml changes as per FlexDeploy Release Notes - See Platform Recommendations. Alternatively, you can compare your context.xml file with FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution (/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/conf/context.xml) and make changes as necessary.

If using Oracle database, it is recommended to use UCP connection pool (see details below). If you are already setup for UCP or using other database go to next step.

• Download the latest Oracle JDBC driver from https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/jdbc-ucp-19c-downloads.html. For example, ojdbc8-full.tar.gz.
• Remove ojdbc jar files like ojdbc*.jar or ojdbc*dms.jar from <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib.
• Copy ojdbc8.jar, ons.jar anducp.jar from download archive to <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib.
• Update <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/conf/context.xml as shown below. Make sure to take backup of existing context.xml file.

<Resource name="jdbc/flexdbDS" auth="Container"
    type="oracle.ucp.jdbc.PoolDataSource"
    factory="oracle.ucp.jdbc.PoolDataSourceImpl"

    connectionFactoryClassName="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
    minPoolSize="0"
    maxPoolSize="100"
    initialPoolSize="0"
    autoCommit="false"

    url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=**HOSTNAME**)(PORT=**PORT**)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=**SERVICE_NAME**)))"
    user="fd_admin"
    password="**FD_ADMIN_PASSWORD**"

    fastConnectionFailoverEnabled="true"

    validationQuery="select 1 from dual"
    testOnBorrow="true"

    useLocalSessionState="true"
    defaultAutoCommit="false"/>

• URL must be in the format listed in the example, the JDBC short format of host:sid:port should not be used.
• If RAC is used for the database, multiple nodes can be listed in the address list of the URL or it can point to the scan listener for the cluster.
• Sample URL for a RAC implementation that has a primary and secondary scan listener connecting to to a service name GOLD-CLOUD. This includes connection timeout, retry, and retry delay settings.

url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION = CONNECT_TIMEOUT=120) (RETRY_COUNT=20) (RETRY_DELAY=3) (TRANSPORT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=3) (ADDRESS_LIST =(LOAD_BALANCE=on) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP) (HOST=primary-scan) (PORT=1521))) (ADDRESS_LIST =(LOAD_BALANCE=on) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP) (HOST=secondary-scan) (PORT=1521))) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME = gold-cloud)))"

• See Implementing UCP connections with Tomcat and Oracle for more info.

Step 6. From the FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution, copy /apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib/FlexDeployAPI.jar into <FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/lib (overwrite existing file if present). If you want to take backup of existing file, please copy it outside of FlexDeploy installation folder to avoid confusion later. 

Step 7. Copy plugins from download zip for auto upload.

Step 8 . Start tomcat by running the following script

<FlexDeploy Home>/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/bin/startup.sh (startup.bat on Windows)

Step 9. Launch FlexDeploy in your browser - http://<hostname>:<port>/flexdeploy

Step 10. There is no need to activate plugins manually. FlexDeploy will automatically upload and activate new versions of plugins once they are copied to plugins folder. You will notice that plugins that you copied in Step 8 will eventually be uploaded automatically and folder will not have any jar files left. You can also look at Administration - Plugins in UI and see newer versions of plugins.