Upgrade
Before every update, check the version of installed packages. The database version is particularly important.
If the host computer has an Internet connection, use the yum command - you'll also see the new package versions provided by the repositories.
Server Upgrade
Make sure you have the vPlus database backup.
You can use this command manually to back it up on-demand on the vPlus Server:
/opt/vprotect/scripts/backup_db.sh /path/to/backup/file.sql.gz
If vPlus was installed on a virtual machine (not a physical one), it would be a good move to take a snapshot.
After backing up the database, we should carefully stop the vPlus service to make sure that we don't have any tasks running (a running task may cause problems updating the database).
View all tasks, if you see even one on the list, clear it (wait for the ongoing tasks to finish)
You can do this from the WebUI (it's faster)
Now, if you don't have any tasks on the list, you can stop the service.
To make sure that no scheduler has started a task before stopping the service, let's query the database.
If the table is not empty, start the vPlus-Server service and clear the tasks again.
Make sure you have MariaDB up-to-date - currently vPlus by default uses version 10.4, while 10.2.31 is the minimum version supported.
If you need to migrate between versions (for example. 10.3 to 10.4) - we recommend updating it as described here, but when you uninstall MariaDB packages you SHOULD NOT remove the vPlus Server package (as a dependency) i.e. try the
--noautoremove
option: As centos/rhel 7 do not have the --noautoremove option natively, please use the rpm method.Otherwise, minor MariaDB versions should be updated with
yum update
rpm -e --nodeps "MariaDB-server-YOUR_VERSION_OF_PACKAGE"
Update the MariaDB repository to the correct version
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo
Install the new MariaDB-Server
yum install -y mariadb-server
Update all other components of MariaDB
yum update -y mariadb
Start the MariaDB engine
systemctl enable mariadb --now
Run mysql_upgrade to update the vPlus Database
mysql_upgrade --user=root --password
If the database update is successful, now we can start with the vPlus Update. Make sure you configure our new repository for vPlus - new base URL:
Note. Use one of these URL's:
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/vProtect.repo
Update the Server (it may take a while, the service is being restarted):
If the server service was not running before update, you may also need to execute:
Node Upgrade
Update each Node:
Run the script to configure the OS for Node:
If the node service was not running before the update, you may also need to execute:
Log in to the web UI and check if the nodes are running.
Note. You may need to refresh your browser cache after an update. In Chrome use CTRL+SHIFT+R
(Windows/Linux) / CMD+SHIFT+R
(MacOS)
Cloud Server Upgrade
Update Cloud Server on each host with Node installed:
Cloud Agent Upgrade
Update Cloud Agent on each host with Node installed:
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