Upgrade TeamForge, EventQ, and Codesearch on Three Separate Servers

Three-server setup, same hardware upgrade, with TeamForge, EventQ, and Codesearch on three separate servers.

Dos and Don'ts

Check this list while installing or upgrading TeamForge.

Three Server Setup

Here's how the services are distributed across three separate RHEL/CentOS 6.8/7.3 servers.
Services TeamForge Application Server (server-01) EventQ Server (server-02) Codesearch Server (server-03)
ctfcore
   
mail
   
search
   
codesearch    
etl
   
gerrit
   
gerrit-database
   
reviewboard
   
reviewboard-database
   
reviewboard-adapter
   
subversion
   
cvs
   
binary
   
binary-database
   
cliserver
   
eventq  
 
mongodb  
 
redis  
 
rabbitmq  
 
ctfcore-database
   
ctfcore-datamart
   
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 and EventQ database and file system.

Do this step by step on TeamForge Application Server (server-01)

  1. Back up all your custom event handlers and remove all the event handler JAR files before starting your TeamForge 17.4 upgrade process.
    1. Go to My Workspace > Admin.
    2. Click System Tools from the Projects menu.
    3. Click Customizations.
    4. Select the custom event handler and click Delete.
      Important: Post upgrade, you can add custom event handlers again from the backup while making sure that you don't have SOAP50 (deprecated) library used.
  2. Uninstall hotfixes and add-ons, if any, installed on your site.
  3. If you have Review Board installed, uninstall it.
    • cd /opt/collabnet/RBInstaller-17.1.5
    • python ./install.py -u
  4. Stop TeamForge.
    If you are upgrading from TeamForge 16.7 or earlier releases:
    • /etc/init.d/collabnet stop all
    If you are upgrading from TeamForge 16.10 or later releases:
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/bin/teamforge stop
  5. Upgrade the operating system packages.
    • yum upgrade
  6. If the TeamForge server has SELinux enabled, run it in 'permissive' mode temporarily while installing or upgrading TeamForge.

    If you have SELinux in "enforcing" mode, you must either disable SELinux or switch to "permissive" mode (recommended) before running the /opt/collabnet/teamforge/bin/teamforge provision command. TeamForge create runtime fails otherwise.

    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
  7. Configure your installation repository.
  8. Install the TeamForge application packages.
    • yum install teamforge
    Attention: TeamForge installer has been 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 17.4 on the same hardware (when you run the yum install teamforge command). You can safely ignore such warning messages and proceed with the upgrade.
  9. Install the Binary application packages.
    • yum install cn-binary
  10. Set up your site's master configuration file.
  11. Deploy services.
    1. Move all backup files and folders including the error folder to /tmp.
      Note: This step is required to make sure that there are no backup files and folders present in /opt/collabnet/teamforge/var/james/var/mail/ to avoid any delay during provisioning.
      • cd /opt/collabnet/teamforge/var/james/var/mail/
      • mv * /tmp
    2. Run the TeamForge provision command.
      • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/bin/teamforge provision
    Note:

    The "provision" command prompts for response before it bootstraps or migrates data during TeamForge installation and upgrade respectively. Enter "Y" or "N" to proceed. For more information, see TeamForge script.

    TeamForge 17.4 (and later) installer expects the system locale to be LANG=en_US.UTF-8. TeamForge "provision" command fails otherwise.

  12. Run the /var/lib/pgsql/analyze_new_cluster.sh script.
    • su - postgres -c "/var/lib/pgsql/analyze_new_cluster.sh"
  13. 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 step by step on Codesearch Server (server-03)

  1. Upgrade the operating system packages.
    • yum upgrade
  2. If the TeamForge server has SELinux enabled, run it in 'permissive' mode temporarily while installing or upgrading TeamForge. TeamForge create runtime fails otherwise.
    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 bring it to 'permissive' mode.
      • setenforce 0
  3. Attention: Do this if and only if you are upgrading TeamForge on RHEL/CentOS 6.8.
    Delete the python-crypto package.
    • yum erase python-crypto
  4. Configure your installation repository.
  5. Stop TeamForge.
    If you are upgrading from TeamForge 16.7 or earlier releases:
    • /etc/init.d/collabnet stop all
    If you are upgrading from TeamForge 16.10 or later releases:
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/bin/teamforge stop
  6. Install the Codesearch packages.
    • yum install teamforge-codesearch
  7. Copy the site-options.conf file from the TeamForge Application Server(server-01) to the Codesearch Server's /opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/ directory.
  8. Deploy services.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/bin/teamforge provision
    Note:

    The "provision" command prompts for response before it bootstraps or migrates data during TeamForge installation and upgrade respectively. Enter "y" or "N" to proceed. For more information, see the TeamForge script.

    TeamForge 17.4 (and later) installer expects the system locale to be LANG=en_US.UTF-8. TeamForge "provision" command fails otherwise.

Do this step by step on TeamForge Application Server (server-01)

  1. If you have CVS integrations, synchronize permissions post upgrade. See, Synchronize TeamForge source control integrations.
  2. Run the TeamForge post installation script. For more information, see post-install.py.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/post-install.py

Do this step by step on EventQ Server (server-02)

  1. Stop EventQ.
    • /etc/init.d/eventq stop
    • /etc/init.d/collabnet-rabbitmq-server stop
    • /etc/init.d/collabnet-mongod stop
  2. If the TeamForge server has SELinux enabled, run it in 'permissive' mode temporarily while installing or upgrading TeamForge. TeamForge create runtime fails otherwise.
    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 bring it to 'permissive' mode.
      • setenforce 0
  3. Copy the site-options.conf file from the TeamForge Application Server(server-01) to the EventQ Server's /opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/ directory.
  4. Upgrade the operating system packages.
    • yum upgrade
  5. Configure your installation repository.
  6. Install the EventQ packages.
    • yum install teamforge-eventq CN-eventq
  7. Deploy services.
    • /opt/collabnet/teamforge/bin/teamforge provision
    Note:

    The "provision" command prompts for response before it bootstraps or migrates data during TeamForge installation and upgrade respectively. Enter "y" or "N" to proceed. For more information, see the TeamForge script.

    TeamForge 17.4 (and later) installer expects the system locale to be LANG=en_US.UTF-8. TeamForge "provision" command fails otherwise.

Do this step by step on TeamForge Application Server (server-01)

  1. Verify TeamForge installation.
    1. Log on to the TeamForge web application using the default Admin credentials.
      • Username: "admin"
      • Password: "admin"
    2. If your site has custom branding, verify that your branding changes still work as intended. See Customize TeamForge .
    3. Let your site's users know they've been upgraded. See Create a Side-wide Broadcast.
  2. 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.
  3. Fix the TeamForge Avatar display issue on RHEL/CentOS 6.8. TeamForge Avatar image is not displayed properly post Review Board installation on RHEL/CentOS 6.8. Run the following commands to work around this issue:
    • yum erase python-imaging
    • yum install teamforge
    • service httpd restart

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