Upgrade

1. Prevent cloud users from performing VM operations

1. In the UI in the Infrastructure view, select each physical machine and click Disable
2. Using the API, set the state of each physical machine to DISABLED

2. Check for operations in progress on the platform

Before you shut down the platform servers you should check that no operations are in progress.

3. Back up the main platform elements

# 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 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)

# 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)

4. Stop platform services

5. Make snapshots and backups of all platform servers

This is a major upgrade, so we recommend that you make a snapshot and/or a backup of your platform servers.

6. Prepare yum repositories for 6.0 or 6.0.x

Prepare yum repositories for 6.0.x

1. Check that you have the repository URL and credentials

2. To upgrade to a version with patch number that is not zero, for example, version 6.0.x, enable both repositories:

   yum-config-manager --enable abiquo-base
   yum-config-manager --enable abiquo-updates

3. Optionally add your username and password to the Abiquo repos

   yum-config-manager --save --setopt=abiquo-*.username=MYUSERNAME
   yum-config-manager --save --setopt=abiquo-*.password=MYPASSWORD

   Don't forget to use a backslash to escape any shell special characters. For more details, see https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-the-bash/1565923472/ch01s09.html

4. Clean yum and make cache

   yum clean all && yum makecache

   
   

5. If you did not make snapshots of all servers already, then you could do this now.

   
   

7. Upgrade packages on ALL servers

These instructions are for monolithic, distributed, and HA environments.

1. Check in your RS server(s) if there is an NFS shared folder for the NARS results (related to the system property abiquo.nars.async.fileresults.path):

   $ mount | grep -i "nfs\|results" | grep -v sunrpc
   10.60.37.87:/abq-pro-nfs on /opt/abiquo/results-nars type nfs4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,sync,vers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.60.37.77,local_lock=none,addr=10.60.37.87,user)

2. Unmount the previous shared folder if you have it mounted:

   sudo umount /opt/abiquo/results-nars

3. Update Abiquo packages:

   yum clean all && yum makecache && yum update 'abiquo-*'

4. Mount again the shared folder from the second step.

   sudo mount -a

5. The Abiquo services must run as the tomcat user (not root), so set the required permissions and enforce the use of the package configuration files.
   If you have a MONOLITHIC SERVER do all of the following steps on the Monolithic server

   1. On Abiquo server and remote services

      chown -R tomcat /opt/abiquo

   2. On the remote services with appliance manager and the V2V server (i.e. servers that mount the NFS repository)

      chown -R tomcat /opt/vm_repository
      chmod -R a+r /opt/vm_repository

   3. On the V2V server, check the /etc/sysconfig/abiquo/ec2-api-tools file exists.
      The file must contain the following configuration. If the file does not exist, create it and add this configuration.

      For CentOS 7

      EC2_HOME=/opt/aws

8. Update the Abiquo databases

1. Check that your hostname is in your DNS or in your /etc/hosts file

2. Upgrade the Abiquo API databases

   abiquo-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] update

   
   

   If the Liquibase update fails with a message similar to the following: 

   Liquibase update Failed: Validation Failed:
   1 change sets check sum
   src/X.X.X-XX/kinton-X.X.X.xml::ABICLOUDPREMIUM-XXXX-XxxxxxxxXXxXxxxxxxXxxxxx::XXXXXXXXX is now: 7:ee2fa6e058ec76c7abf801567898917d
   For more information, use the --logLevel flag

   Do the following steps

   1. Clear the database checksums

      abiquo-db clearCheckSums

   2. Retry the above abiquo-db update command.

3. To upgrade the Abiquo Watchtower database, on the monitoring appliance, run the command below:

   watchtower-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] update

4. Reporting: The Abiquo reports server now runs with JasperReports v7.8.0

9. Upgrade additional elements

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

If you have custom billing queries, please update them now.

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

10. 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
   If your API is not in the same domain as the UI, set the API endpoint pointing to your Abiquo API server:

   {
       "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. Start Abiquo server and services