Upgrade: command line

• Note: run the upgrade under the application user (mostly "lpar2rrd"), not under root
  
  
• install a new version via update.sh script
  
  

  # su - lpar2rrd (if the tool is running under lpar2rrd user)
  $ tar xvf lpar2rrd-7.XX.tar
  $ cd lpar2rrd-7.XX
  $ sh ./update.sh
  

• Build a new UI
  
  

  $ cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd
  $ ./load.sh | tee logs/load.out-initial
  

• Once it finishes go to the UI, reload it by Ctrl-F5
  
  
• If there is a problem with loading of the UI then try to use following to avoid browser caching issues.
  • use other WEB browser
  • close/open the WEB browser
  
  
• Deploy the OS agents when you use that feature. Details
  Always deploy OS agents after the LPAR2RRD server upgrade.

• OS agent upgrade Unix/Linux
• OS agent upgrade IBM i
• Virtual Appliance upgrade

Docker upgrade: command line

You can naturaly upgrade by standard container redeploy what is more convenient.
This is methond is intended for upgrade to the Enterprise edition or to a version which is not available in Docker repository

• Copy the the package into Docker container:

  docker cp lpar2rrd-7.51-XY.tar LPAR2RRD:/tmp
  

• Go to the contaiener:

  docker exec -ti LPAR2RRD bash
  

• Upgrade as per above "Upgrade : command line"