Upgrade to TeamForge 16.7 - Database and Datamart on a separate server

In this procedure, we'll assume that you are upgrading on the same server where your existing TeamForge 16.3 site is running.

Do the following on the application server - my.app.host

1. Uninstall hotfixes and add-ons, if any, installed on your site.
2. If you have Review Board installed, uninstall Review Board.
   • cd /opt/collabnet/RBInstaller-1.8.0.0.12
   • python ./install.py -u
3. Stop the TeamForge CLI add-on (This step is required only for TeamForge Application server).
   • service teamforge_cli_server stop
4. Stop TeamForge.
   • /etc/init.d/collabnet stop all
5. No backup is required for same hardware upgrades. However, you can create a backup as a precaution. See Back up and restore TeamForge and EventQ to learn more about backing up TeamForge database and file system.
6. Upgrade the operating system packages.
   • yum upgrade
7. If the TeamForge server has SELinux enabled, run it in 'Permissive' mode temporarily while installing or upgrading TeamForge.
   1. Verify if SELinux is running in enforcing mode.
      • getenforce
   2. If the output of the getenforce command is "Permissive", continue with the next step. If not, run the following command to bring it to 'Permissive' mode.
      • setenforce 0
   See Set up SELinux to have TeamForge run in SELinux mode after completing the installation or upgrade.
8. Configure your TeamForge installation repository.
   • TeamForge installation repository configuration for sites with internet access
   1. Contact the CollabNet Support and download the TeamForge 16.7 installation repository package to /tmp.
   2. Install the repository package.
      • yum install -y /tmp/collabnet-teamforge-repo-16.7-1.noarch.rpm
   3. Refresh your repository cache.
      • yum clean all
   • TeamForge installation repository configuration for sites without internet access
   1. Contact the CollabNet Support to get the auxiliary installer package for TeamForge 16.7 disconnected installation and save it in /tmp.
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.8 64 bit RPM package: CTF-Disconnected-media-16.7.879-116.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
   2. Unpack the disconnected installation package.
      • rpm -Uvh <package-name>
   3. Note: If the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS installation DVD is mounted already, skip the following instructions. If not, mount the DVD.
      Mount the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS installation DVD. The DVD contains the necessary software and utilities required for installing TeamForge without internet access.

      In the following commands, replace "cdrom" with the identifier for your server's CD/DVD drive, if necessary.

      • cd /media/
      • mkdir cdrom
      • mount /dev/cdrom ./cdrom/

      If there are any spaces in the automount, unmount it first and mount it as a filepath, with no spaces.

   4. Create a yum configuration file that points to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS installation DVD.
      • vi /etc/yum.repos.d/cdrom.repo
      Here's a sample yum configuration file.

      [RHEL-CDROM] 
      name=RHEL CDRom 			
      baseurl=file:///media/cdrom/Server/
      gpgfile=file:///media/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release 
      enabled=1
      gpgcheck=0

   5. Verify your yum configuration files.
      • yum list httpd
      • yum list apr
   6. Download the code search installation package, CodeSearch-installer-2.1.3-1.noarch.rpm from https://ctf.open.collab.net/sf/go/rel4193 and save it in the /tmp directory. To install the Black Duck Code Sight installer, run the following command.
      • cd /tmp
      • rpm -ivh CodeSearch-installer-2.1.3-1.noarch.rpm
9. Install the following application packages.
   1. TeamForge: To install the TeamForge application packages run the following command:
      • yum install teamforge
      Attention: TeamForge installer is being optimized quite a bit. It's likely that you might come across a lot of warning messages while upgrading from TeamForge 8.2 (or earlier) to TeamForge 16.7 on the same hardware (when you run the yum install teamforge command). You can safely ignore such warning messages and proceed with the upgrade.
   2. To install the CollabNet binary application, run the following command.
      • yum install cn-binary
   3. Tip: If you have GIT and Black Duck Code Sight already, they are automatically upgraded when you run yum install teamforge. In such case, you can skip the following sub-steps.
      GIT: To install the GIT packages run the following command:
      • yum install teamforge-git
   4. Black Duck Code Sight: To install the Black Duck Code Sight packages run the following command:
      • yum install teamforge-codesearch
10. Set up your site's master configuration file.
    1. Set up your site options. See Site options change log for a list of new and obsolete tokens.
       • vi /opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/site-options.conf
    2. TeamForge 16.7 and later versions support automatic JAVA_HOME configuration. Remove the JAVA_HOME token, if present, from the site-options.conf file.
    3. Update the host name and domain name, if required.

       HOST_localhost=app etl indexer subversion cvs

       DOMAIN_localhost=my.app.domain.com

       HOST_my.db.domain.com=database datamart

       Add "gerrit" to Host_localhost if you are installing Git.

       HOST_localhost=app etl indexer subversion cvs gerrit

       Add "codesearch" to Host_localhost if you are installing Black Duck Code Sight.

       HOST_localhost=app etl indexer subversion cvs codesearch

       Add "binary" to Host_localhost if you are installing Nexus.

       HOST_localhost=app etl indexer subversion cvs codesearch binary

    4. Turn on the SSL for your site by editing the relevant variables in the site-options.conf file. To generate the SSL certificates, see Generate SSL certificates.

       SSL=on

       SSL_CERT_FILE

       SSL_KEY_FILE

       SSL_CHAIN_FILE

       Note: The SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_KEY_FILE tokens need an absolute path. The SSL_CHAIN_FILE token is optional.
    5. If the token REQUIRE_PASSWORD_SECURITY is enabled, then set a value for the token, PASSWORD_CONTROL_EFFECTIVE_DATE.
       CAUTION:
       The Password Control Kit (PCK) disables, deletes or expires user accounts that don't meet the password security requirements starting from the date set for the PASSWORD_CONTROL_EFFECTIVE_DATE token. If a date is not set, the PCK disables, deletes or expires user accounts immediately. See PASSWORD_CONTROL_EFFECTIVE_DATE for more information.
    6. TeamForge 7.1 and later support automatic password creation. See AUTO_DATA for more information.
    7. Password obfuscation: The password obfuscation is enabled by default. As a result, all password-related tokens are encrypted in all the TeamForge configuration files.
       Restriction: The password-related tokens cannot contain the following characters in the site-options.conf file: $<>/\'"`
       • To disable password obfuscation, set OBFUSCATION_ENABLED=false.
       • To configure the obfuscation key, set OBFUSCATION_KEY=<Any AlphaNumeric value with length >= 8 bytes>. The default value of OBFUSCATION_KEY token is XSJt43wN.
    8. Make sure that the following tokens have a value if ETL is enabled.

       SOAP_ANONYMOUS_SHARED_SECRET

       ETL_SOAP_SHARED_SECRET

    9. Configure the Black Duck Code Sight tokens. See Black Duck Code Sight site-option tokens.
    10. To enable the history protection feature of TeamForge Git integration, set the GERRIT_FORCE_HISTORY_PROTECTION=true. For more information, see GERRIT_FORCE_HISTORY_PROTECTION.
    11. If you have LDAP set up for external authentication, you must set the “REQUIRE_USER_PASSWORD_CHANGE” site options token to false.
    12. Ensure to set the token SELINUX_SETUP=true.
    13. Make sure the PostgreSQL tokens in the site-options.conf file are set as recommended in the following topic: What are the right PostgreSQL settings for my site?
    14. Enable the POSTGRES_INTERFACE token in the site-options.conf file if the value of "ifconfig -a" is not eth0/enp0*.
    15. Configure the JBOSS_JAVA_OPTS site-options.conf token. See JBOSS_JAVA_OPTS.
        Important: All JVM parameters but -Xms1024m and -Xmx2048m have been hard-coded in the TeamForge core application. You need not manually configure any other parameter (such as -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=128M -server -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Djsse.enableSNIExtension=false -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=600000) in the site-options.conf file.

        When you change the default value of a JVM parameter such as "-XX:HeapDumpPath", the JBoss runtime parameters include both the user defined and default values for the JVM parameter. However, JBoss runs with the user defined value and ignores the default value.

    16. Save the site-options.conf file.
11. Create the runtime environment.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/installer/install.sh
12. Update the file permissions on your site's data.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/fix_data_permissions.sh
    Note: This process can take a long time on sites with a lot of data.

Do this on the database server - my.db.host

13. Run the following commands to upgrade Red Hat/CentOS to the latest version.
    1. Remove the neon-devel package if you are upgrading from TeamForge 6.2.
       • yum erase neon-devel -y
       • yum erase subversion-devel -y
    2. Upgrade the operating system packages.
       • yum upgrade
14. If the TeamForge server has SELinux enabled, disable it temporarily while installing or upgrading TeamForge.
    1. Verify if SELinux is running in enforcing mode.
       • getenforce
    2. If the output of the getenforce command is either "Disabled" or "Permissive", SELinux is already disabled.
    3. If not disabled, run the following command to disable SELinux.
       • setenforce 0
15. Configure your TeamForge installation repository.
    • TeamForge installation repository configuration for sites with internet access
    1. Contact the CollabNet Support and download the TeamForge 16.7 installation repository package to /tmp.
    2. Install the repository package.
       • yum install -y /tmp/collabnet-teamforge-repo-16.7-1.noarch.rpm
    3. Refresh your repository cache.
       • yum clean all
    • TeamForge installation repository configuration for sites without internet access
    1. Contact the CollabNet Support to get the auxiliary installer package for TeamForge 16.7 disconnected installation and save it in /tmp.
       • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.8 64 bit RPM package: CTF-Disconnected-media-16.7.879-116.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
    2. Unpack the disconnected installation package.
       • rpm -Uvh <package-name>
    3. Note: If the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS installation DVD is mounted already, skip the following instructions. If not, mount the DVD.
       Mount the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS installation DVD. The DVD contains the necessary software and utilities required for installing TeamForge without internet access.

       In the following commands, replace "cdrom" with the identifier for your server's CD/DVD drive, if necessary.

       • cd /media/
       • mkdir cdrom
       • mount /dev/cdrom ./cdrom/

       If there are any spaces in the automount, unmount it first and mount it as a filepath, with no spaces.

    4. Create a yum configuration file that points to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS installation DVD.
       • vi /etc/yum.repos.d/cdrom.repo
       Here's a sample yum configuration file.

       [RHEL-CDROM] 
       name=RHEL CDRom 			
       baseurl=file:///media/cdrom/Server/
       gpgfile=file:///media/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release 
       enabled=1
       gpgcheck=0

    5. Verify your yum configuration files.
       • yum list httpd
       • yum list apr
16. If the PostgreSQL database is running locally, stop the PostgreSQL service.
    • /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.3 stop
17. Install the TeamForge database packages.
    • yum install teamforge-database
18. Copy the site-options.conf file from my.app.host and modify the token settings.
    Note: If you choose to use the old site-options.conf file, don’t forget to copy the AUTO_DATA token from the application server.
    1. Set the following tokens.

       HOST_my.db.host=database datamart

       Note: 'HOST_my.db.host' is just an example. As you are installing database on a separate server, do not use 'HOST_localhost'. Use 'HOST_<valid host name>' instead.

       DOMAIN_my.db.host=my.db.domain.com

       HOST_my.app.domain.com=app etl indexer subversion cvs

    2. TeamForge 16.7 and later versions support automatic JAVA_HOME configuration. Remove the JAVA_HOME token, if present, from the site-options.conf file.
    3. If the first interface of "ifconfig -a" is not eth0/enp0*, set the POSTGRES_INTERFACE token in the site-options.conf file with the NIC name that PostgreSQL should listen to, without which you cannot successfully create runtime.
    4. Save the site-options.conf file.
19. Create the runtime environment.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/installer/install.sh

Do this on the application server - my.app.host

20. Convert your site data to work with TeamForge 16.7.
    Tip: Before you kick off the data migration, do the following:

    • Use the /etc/init.d/collabnet status command to make sure the JBoss, Tomcat and Tomcatcs services are stopped.
    • If any of the trackers in your project already contains a field with the name team, conflict may arise while running the migrate.py script. This is because of the inclusion of the Team feature in TeamForge 8.0. To prevent this conflict, follow the steps given in FAQ on troubleshooting.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/migrate.py
    The migrate.py script locates the existing site data and modifies it as needed.

    This includes configuration data for LDAP and the James mail server. Any modifications that you have applied to these components on your old site are reproduced on your upgraded TeamForge 16.7 site.

21. Start TeamForge.
    • /etc/init.d/collabnet start

22. If you have CVS integrations, synchronize permissions post upgrade. See, Synchronize TeamForge source control integrations.
23. Run the TeamForge post installation script. For more information, see post-install.py.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/post-install.py
    Note: In case you face any GIT-related issues while running the post-install.py script, see Post install fails for GIT. What should I do?.
24. Run the svn_cache.sh script.
    • cd /opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/codesearch/
    • ./svn_cache.sh <Repository Base URL Path of the SCM Integration Server>

    Provide a repository base URL path of the SCM integration server, for example, "http://myint.box.net/svn/repos", where myint.box is the server with the SCM integration server.

    In addition, if you add a new integration server at some point later, you must run this svn_cache.sh script, (after creating the new integration server), on the TeamForge application server.

25. Apply the finishing touches and make sure everything is running smoothly after upgrading to TeamForge 16.7.
    1. Log into your site as the administrator.
    2. If your site has custom branding, verify that your branding changes still work as intended. See Change your site's look and feel.
    3. Let your site's users know they've been upgraded. See Communicate with all site users at once.
26. Remove the backup files, if any, after the TeamForge site is up and running as expected. Remove the repository and the file system backup from the /tmp/backup_dir directory.