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Chapter 9. Upgrading CloudPlatform to the Latest Version
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Before you run the following command, you must replace the file and the directory names with the
ones that you are using.
# tar xzf CloudPlatform-4.5.0-N-OSVERSION.tar.gz
# cd CloudPlatform-4.5.0-N-OSVERSION
# ./install.sh
You can see a few messages as the installer prepares, followed by a list of options from which you
can choose the option to perform the upgrade operation.
3. Enter U to upgrade the package.
>U
You can view messages as the upgrade proceeds. After the upgrade is completed, you can view
the message like Complete! Done.
4. If you have made changes to your existing copy of the db.properties and the server.xml
configuration files in your previous-version of CloudPlatform installation, CloudPlatform preserves
those changes in the upgrade. However, you need to do the following steps to place these
changes in a new version of the file, which is compatible with version 4.5:
If the upgrade output in the previous step includes a message like the following, it indicates that
your old db.properties and server.xml files contain some custom content and you need to
merge the two files:
For db.properties file, the message appears as follows:
warning: /etc/cloud.rpmsave/management/db.properties created as /etc/cloudstack/
management/db.properties.rpmnew
For server.xml file, the message appears as follows:
warning: /etc/cloud.rpmsave/management/server.xml created as /etc/cloudstack/management/
server.xml.rpmnew
a. Backup the previous version of the db.properties or the server.xml file. For example:
(substitute the file name in these commands as needed)
For the db.properties file:
# mv /etc/cloudstack/management/db.properties /etc/cloudstack/management/
db.propertiesbackup
For the server.xml file:
# mv /etc/cloudstack/management/server.xml /etc/cloudstack/management/
server.xmlbackup
b. Copy the *.rpmsave file to create a new file.
For the db.properties file: