Rolling update in-place and offline

You update an installed version of Decision Server Insights in-place and offline by stopping all of the servers, and then running an Installation Manager update on all of the server hosts in your production topology.

Before you begin

Specify the repository locations for Decision Server Insights V8.10.new in the Installation Manager preferences.

About this task

The following diagram shows the high-level steps that you must take to update Decision Server Insights from V8.10.x. Typically, the steps are done in the following order:

  1. Update the production server hosts. When this step is complete, the solutions that ran in the previous version are now running in the new runtime.
  2. Update the development environment.
  3. Migrate all of your solutions. This step converts solutions to make them compatible with the new version. The previous version of the solution remains active until you deploy the new solution on all of the runtime servers and activate it. Use solutionManager deploy enableOnly=true and the solutionManager activate commands to tell Insight Server to switch to the new version.
Updating in-place and offline

Procedure

  1. Shut down the entire system in the following order:
    1. Inbound Connectivity (server stop server_name)
    2. Runtime (serverManager shutdown [options])
    3. Outbound Connectivity (server stop server_name)
    4. Catalog (server stop server_name)

    For more information, see Creating, starting, and stopping servers.

  2. For each catalog server of your topology, run Installation Manager to update your Insight Server installation.
  3. For each runtime server of your topology, run Installation Manager to update your Insight Server installation.
  4. For each connectivity server of your topology, run Installation Manager to update your Insight Server installation.
  5. Restart the updated servers by running the server start commands in the following order from the <InstallDir>/runtime/wlp/bin directory:
    1. Catalog servers: server start server_name
    2. Runtime servers: server start server_name
    3. Outbound servers: server start server_name
    4. Inbound servers: server start server_name

    Review the server status information in the log files, including messages.log. The log files are in the <InstallDirV8.10.new>/runtime/wlp/usr/servers/server_name/logs directory.

What to do next

  1. Update Decision Server Insights in your development environment, and follow the steps in Migrating solutions.
  2. Deploy the migrated version of your solutions to the runtime servers.