ISBG 2016

Planning and Completing an IBM Connections Upgrade

Gabriella DavisThe Turtle Partnership gabriella@turtlepartnership.com

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Planning

What Are We Dealing With?❖ Fixes

❖ WebSphere

❖ Applications

❖ Fixpacks

❖ Tivoli

❖ DB2 /SQL etc

❖ CRs (Cumulative Releases)

❖ .. and now Day 1 fixes

Deciding When / If To Upgrade

❖ Register for support updates so you get notified of problems and fixes

❖ If you have a problem that is resolved by a fix - apply the fix

❖ If you don't have a problem you have more time to plan

Search Fix Central for any updates

❖ Register for subscriptions

❖ http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/einfo.html

❖ RSS Feed for Connections notifications

Subscription Options By Product

Before Any Fixes Or Updates

❖ Backup WebSphere

❖ profiles\dmgr\bin\backupConfig.sh/bat d:\filename.zip -nostop

❖ Backup the databases

❖ db2 backup database peopledb to d:\ with 2 buffers buffer 1024 parallelism 1 compress without prompting

❖ Read all the documentation

❖ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter

❖ Download all the necessary files

Working With Installation Manager❖ IM controls all installs and updates to your

software

❖ Once you’ve installed something via IM you can’t delete IM without first uninstalling all software it manages

❖ Install the right version of IM in the right directory

❖ You can’t move or uninstall it once you start using it

❖ You can upgrade it to the latest version though

Reviewing Installation History

Reviewing installed software❖ Installation Manager - View Installed Packages

Installation Manager - Modify, Rollback, Uninstall

Applying WebSphere Fixes

Applying WebSphere Fixes❖ Using online repository via Installation Manager

❖ Downloading fix files from Fix Central

❖ Apply to every server

❖ Rolling back fixes

Applying FixPacks

Applying DB2 Fixes❖ Download the DB2 fix for the fixpack you need from

FixCentral

❖ I prefer to use the Universal server fixpack

❖ Extract the downloaded file

❖ for Linux run installFixPack (from universal directory)

❖ also db2prereqcheck

❖ for Windows run setup.exe (from the ESE directory)

Verifying DB2

db2level

Verifying DB2

db2licm-l

Applying TDI Fixes❖ Download the fixpack you need from Fix Central

❖ Extract the zip file into a folder where there should be a new UpdateInstaller.jar

❖ copy that file into \IBM\TDI\V7.1\maintenance

❖ Run applyUpdates.bat/sh from \IBM\TDI\V7.1\bin

❖ -queryreg (current components and versions)

Applying TDI Fixes❖ applyUpdates.bat/sh -update locationofzipfixfile

❖ when all components are updated run query fix again to confirm

Applying Interim Connections Application Fixes

❖ Download the fixes from Fix Central

❖ copy to a “fixes” directory under \IBM\Connections\UpdateInstaller

❖ From the AppServer\bin directory run setupCmdLine.sh /bat

❖ Go to a command line and from the UpdateInstaller directory run “updateWizard.bat/sh”

❖ It will ask you if you have backed up your customizations - don’t lie to it :-)

Connections 5.5 Fixes❖ Day 1 fixes for database and migration wizards

❖ CR1 fixes May 16 2016

Updating Connections - Cumulative Releases

Planning a Cumulative Release Fix❖ There should be an IBM technote with details of the release

❖ For v5 all the CRs are referenced from the same technote

❖ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683118

❖ The technote contains details of all the CRs

❖ The details for CR1 for Connections 5.5 and the Day 1 fixes are here

• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972646

MUST Do❖ The CR update document has things you MUST do and things you CAN do

❖ MUST DO

❖ Application Updates

❖ DB Schema Updates

❖ Any Filenet or Cognos Updates

CAN Do❖ There will also be a list of supported versions for your

DB server, for WAS, for LDAP, for Linux and Windows

❖ also check detailed system requirements http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27042395

Deciding What To Upgrade & In What Order

❖ WebSphere (optional?)

❖ Verify you also install any iFixes with your WAS fix packs

❖ DB2 (optional?)

❖ Is your DB2 server used for anything else?

❖ Connections Applications

❖ DB Schema Changes

❖ FileNet

❖ Cognos

Updating Connections - Backing Up❖ WebSphere

❖ from \profiles\Dmgr01\bin\backupConfig.xx <filename> -nostop

❖ Customizations

❖ \data\shared\customizations ..

❖ Databases

❖ db2 backup database peopledb to d:\ with 2 buffers buffer 1024 parallelism 1 compress without prompting

Updating Connections Applications❖ via Installation Manager

❖ Unzip the CR update file e.g. 5.0.0.0-IC-Multi-CR03-LO84244.zip (there is a single file for multiple OS)

Updating Connections Via Installation Manager

Updating Connections Via Installation Manager

Verifying The Install Step 1

❖ Before starting any Connection servers

❖ Check the logs

❖ c:\programdata\IBM\InstallationManager

❖ \IBM\Connections\version\log

❖ Dmgr SystemOut.log

Verifying The Install Step 2.❖ The nodeagent on the application server profiles should be started

❖ Dmgr will deploy the updated apps to each node

❖ Monitor SystemOut.log on the Dmgr to verify when the apps are fully deployed

❖ The actual files are deployed from

❖ \dmgr\config\cells\cellname\applications To

❖ \profilename\config\cells\cellname\applications

❖ the file date/time stamps should match

Step 3. Stop Here Before Starting Any Connections Servers

❖ Now is the time to apply the DB schema changes

❖ Download the database updates zip file linked to from the update document http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683118 (v5)

❖ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972646 (v5.5)

❖ Use the readme in the SQL directory to find the commands to run

❖ make sure you are logged in as the DB2 administrator

❖ I like to pipe the command to a

❖ text file so I can review the output by

❖ adding >[outputfile] after each line

If you don’t update the DB Schema the application servers will still start

the applications just won’t work

check SystemOut.log for errors relating to versions of the db schema

After Any Fixes Or Updates❖ Sync the nodes

❖ Start each server individually, monitoring the SystemOut.log for any errors

❖ Test every URL works

❖ /files

❖ /blogs

❖ /communities etc

❖ Test the search works by using the search validation URL

❖ <hostname>/search/serverStatus (case sensitive)

Upgrading Connections - New Releases

Hello 5.5 !

In-Place vs Side By Side

❖ Upgrading from 5.0 - 5.5 can be done in place or side by side

❖ I avoid upgrading in place since there’s no way to back out once you start

❖ It does mean running duplicate hardware until you cutover to the new environment

❖ but it’s much safer and lower risk

Planning❖ Installing Connections 5.5 is a small part of what you will need

to plan for

❖ If you are doing an in-place upgrade you will have to uninstall the Connections applications before installing the latest version

Planning

❖ DB2 installation and patching

❖ TDI installation and patching

❖ Verify the Linux libraries and OS are at the right level

❖ Creating 5.0 databases to match the source data

❖ Patch the databases to match the source data

❖ THEN…..

Planning❖ Writing migration XML and script files to move the DB data

❖ Migrate the DB data

❖ Upgrade all the databases to v5.5 DB Schema

❖ Exporting artifacts from the existing environment

❖ Backing up and restoring the databases that aren’t migrated but need to be reused eg. FEBDB, FNOS, FNGCD

❖ Installing and patching WAS

❖ THEN…..

Planning - More❖ INSTALL CONNECTIONS…

❖ Upgrade to the latest CR that Connections supports (CR1)

❖ Upgrade all the databases to the latest CR DB Schema

❖ Import the artifacts that you exported from 5.0

❖ Migrate the SSL keydb from source to destination

❖ Import the WAS internal key into the keydb

❖ Copy the shared content stores

❖ Copy the local search to one node

❖ Copy over the customisations and verify they still work

❖ Synchronise files in communities

Test All Existing Customisations

❖ In any Connections environment I recommend deploying a test server

❖ All components other than Cognos can be installed on one server

❖ Having a test server enables Customisations, iFixes and Interim fixes to be tested before deploying to production

Things To Watch Out For…❖ The keydb used by IHS must have the WAS certificate from

the deployment manager installed

❖ If you buy a 4096 SSL certificate you need to configure WebSphere to support that by using unrestricted java library files

❖ The XML files imported as part of the artifacts import may not work as expected on Connections 5.5

• There may be configuration settings that are no longer supported to in the wrong syntax

Connections 5.5 Day 1 Fixes❖ IBM released a number of critical, required Connections, database and

Cognos fixes on the day Connections 5.5 became available.

❖ These should be used as your primary install files , not the ones you download from Passport Advantage

❖ They are also available as part of the CR1 downloads

❖ Make sure you download all these files before starting your install or migration

• Instructions and download links are all here

• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972646

Connections 5.5 Day 1 Fixes

• There is a new DB Wizard to be used for creating or upgrading databases

• http://ibm.co/1Pnwwqx (Windows) http://ibm.co/1WShfiU (*ix)

• There is a new UpdateInstaller file for Connections to enable the new fixes to be applied http://ibm.co/1VvIBtN

• There are new iFixes for Connections http://ibm.co/1nDjtH6

• There is a new migration tool if you are moving from an earlier version of Connections which brings in your artifacts and configuration files http://ibm.co/1KfI1Qc

• There is a new Cognos wizard to be used when deploying Cognos http://ibm.co/20bCTnH (Windows)

Connections 5.5 CR1

❖ There is an update to the homepage DB

❖ There are Connections updates that can be installed via Installation Manager

Thank you Questions?