Upgrading an IBM Content Navigator deployment interactively
After you upgrade the IBM® Content Navigator software, you must rebuild and redeploy your IBM Content Navigator web application.
Before you begin
- Back up the IBM Content Navigator configuration profile that you plan to rebuild and redeploy. For more information, see Backing up IBM Content Navigator.
At a high level, you must complete the following steps. For details on the steps, see the table.
- Launch the Configuration tool and select the Modify existing profile option.
- Run the Configure Datasource task with the Run the script on your database option unchecked.
- Configure the task manager application, if you selected Task Manager, and then configure and run the web application task.
- Run the Rebuild EAR task, as well as the Deploy Application task.
- Restart the application server.
About this task
For more details about the tasks that you need to run, see the following table:
Task | IBM Content Manager users | IBM Content Manager OnDemand users | IBM FileNet® Content Manager users | Notes |
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Updating the IBM FileNet P8 client connector files (FileNet P8) | Sometimes required | Run this task if you upgraded your Content Engine or Content Platform Engine installation to ensure that IBM Content Navigator is running the same version of the client files as your Content Engine or Content Platform Engine server. | ||
Worksheet for configuring Process Engine for IBM Content Navigator | Rarely required | Run this task only if you are updating the web client to connect to IBM FileNet Content Manager repositories. | ||
Worksheet for configuring the connection to your LDAP server | Rarely required | Run this task only if you are updating the web client to connect to IBM FileNet Content Manager repositories. | ||
Worksheet for importing your Content Engine LTPA keys | Rarely required | Run this task only if you are updating the web client to connect to IBM FileNet Content Manager repositories. | ||
Configuring the Content Manager OnDemand connector (Content Manager OnDemand) | Sometimes required | Run this task if you upgraded your IBM Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit installation. | ||
Configuring the JDBC driver for your database | Rarely required | Rarely required | Rarely required | Run this task only if you changed the location of the JDBC drivers on your IBM Content Navigator server. |
Configuring the Content Manager connector (Content Manager) | Rarely required | Run this task only if you are updating the web client to connect to IBM Content Manager. | ||
Configuring your database and data source | Required | Required | Required | Run the Configure Datasource task with the Run the script on your database option unchecked. |
Configuring JAAS authentication on your web application server | You do not need to run this task when you upgrade IBM Content Navigator. | |||
Configuring the task manager component | Optional | Optional | Optional | Run this task if you want to include the task manager component in your IBM Content Navigator deployment. |
Configuring the IBM Content Navigator web application | Required | Required | Required | |
Building the web application | Required | Required | Required | |
Redeploying the web application | Required | Required | Required |