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How to Update Manually the Instana Product Repository for OnPrem

How To


Summary

This document explains the process of how to update the Instana product repository in case after running the command: yum --showduplicates list instana-console displays an outdated list of Instana Console Versions.

Steps

  • Check whether your repo is pointed to the latest address, to do this run this command: cat /etc/yum.repos.d/Instana-Product.repo and check the baseURL, if you have something like this: https://self-hosted.instana.io/rpm/releases/product/rpm/generic/x86_64/Packages the update is necessary.
  • Delete this file by running the command: rm /etc/yum.repos.d/Instana-Product.repo, in some moment of the process the command asks you if you want to proceed, type: yes.
  • Then, copy the following:
  •  export DOWNLOAD_KEY=your download_key
 cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/Instana-Product.repo
 [instana-product]
 name=Instana-Product
 baseurl=https://_:$DOWNLOAD_KEY@artifact-public.instana.io/artifactory/rel-rpm-public-virtual/
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=0
 gpgkey=https://_:$DOWNLOAD_KEY@artifact- 
 public.instana.io/artifactory/api/security/keypair/public/repositories/rel-rpm-public-virtual
 repo_gpgcheck=1
EOF
  • Run, yum update -y
  • Then, yum makecache fast
  • And finally run yum --showduplicates list instana-console and you should see the list updated.

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 August 2023

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ibm17004473

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