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# On DB server, back up the Abiquo MySQL DBs
mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton            > kinton.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton_accounting > kinton_accounting.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# On the Monitoring server, back up Watchtower DB
mysqldump --routines --triggers watchtower            > watchtower.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# On the Abiquo API Server or UI server, back up the UI
tar cvfz /var/www/html/ui.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /var/www/html/ui

# If you are using SAML authentication with multiple IdPs, on ALL Abiquo API Servers, back up this file
cp 
/opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml /opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml-$(date
 +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# Copy the api.xml file to back up the database connection details
cp /opt/abiquo/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/api.xml /opt/abiquo/api.xml-$(date+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# On ALL servers, back up the /opt/abiquo folder
tar cvfz /opt/abiquo.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /opt/abiquo

# On Abiquo Monolithic or API Server, Remote Services, or Datanode, back up Redis
redis-cli save
cp -a /var/lib/redis /var/lib/redis-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

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# cd /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis/
# bash ./4.2.3/00-old-vsm-definitions.sh

For Abiquo 6.2.0+, edit the tomcat config file and update the update the database connector configuration configurations

1. On the Abiquo API Server, edit /opt/abiquo/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/api.xml

2. If your database is on the Abiquo Server or a single server

   1. For the database connector, remove jdbc:mysql://dbhost and replace with jdbc:mariadb:${DBHOST}

3. If you are using a separate database cluster:

   1. Add the Galera configuration to the database connector (to replace jdbc:

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1. 1. mysql://dbhost...)

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      jdbc:mariadb:loadbalance://address=(host=

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1. 1. ${DBMAIN})(port=3306)(type=master), address=(host=

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1. 1. ${DBR1})(port=3306)(type=slave), address=(host=

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1. 1. ${DBR2})(port=3306)(type=slave)/kinton

2. On the Watchtower server, edit the emmett.conf and delorean.conf files at:

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   /etc/abiquo/watchtower/delorean.conf /etc/abiquo/watchtower/emmett.conf

   1. From the connection details, remove jdbc:mysql: and replace with jdbc:mariadb:

   2. Add your Galera configuration if your monitoring DB is in a cluster

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15. Configure Abiquo after the upgrade

1. Before you start the Abiquo tomcat server, add Abiquo configuration properties to the abiquo.properties file.
   By default the abiquo.properties file is found in the /opt/abiquo/config/ folder.
   See Changes to Abiquo configuration properties

2. Configure the user interface. The default UI location is /var/www/html/ui.
   Optional: Add custom labels and translations in the lang_xx_XX_custom.json files in the lang folder
   Add custom configuration to client-config-custom.json. See Configure Abiquo UI and Changes to UI configuration
   If your API is not in the same domain as the UI, set the API endpoint pointing to your Abiquo API server:

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   { "config.endpoint": "http://myAPIserver/api" }

3. SAML: If you are using SAML with multiple IDPs, restore the configuration as described at Restore SAML security beans after upgrade.

4. Abiquo 6.2.0 updates Java and other packages, so check your certificates following . To do this, you can follow the steps at Update certificates in your Abiquo environment.

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