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Settings

The Settings window allows you to manage the amount of ram allocated for the database and application servers. In addition, you can add configuration options for the database and Jboss, and select the database connection type. To see a list of the available JBoss configuration options, click More...

Web Server

Web server settings are defined during initial installation, but can be changed later in the Web server section of the Setup menu. You may change all parameters related to external web server integration, as well as those for the built-in Apache Tomcat server. The input fields are described in more detail in the Database Server section of 

Companyname
 Setup. 

Service Control

The Service Control menu contains the settings for 

Companyname
 services. These include:

  • How the system should handle stop and restarting the database or JBoss server, and which service should be affected when a start/stop/restart happens
  • Memory dumps
  • Broadcast messages
  • Start/stop timeouts
  • Duration of inactivity value for the broadcast message during the outage
  • How to monitor the services

Software Update

Updating an 

Companyname
 installation to the latest version is a simple operation requiring almost no user interaction.

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If you are running a version of 
Companyname
with a release date prior to 2014_01 you must upgrade to the 2017_01 release before installing a later version. 
  1. Download the 2017_01 installer package from https://www.agiloft.com/ewdownload/archive/2017_01/ and upgrade your system to 2017_01. 
  2. After the successful upgrade, upgrade to the current version of
    Companyname
    , releases 2017_02 and later.
In general, the update process has the following stages:
  1. Back up everything that should be backed up. This may include KBs, software code, database files, etc., depending on what is to be updated.
  2. Obtain new licenses for the new release, if it is a major upgrade with a new main version number.
  3. Run the automated 
    Companyname
     software update to replace installed software and/or data that should be updated.
  4. Roll back to pre-update state if something goes wrong.

There are three ways to run the update process:

Online update

The online update option is the simplest method. Run Setup and select Software Update from the main menu, then click Check for updates online. Setup will automatically check to see if a new version of 

Companyname
 is available, and if so, will download it and start the update. The user can monitor and set update options using the web interface.

Manual update

If an earlier release of 

Companyname
 is already installed, you can update the software by simply downloading and installing the latest version. Run the downloaded installer as for an initial installation. The installer will detect an existing 
Companyname
 instance and prompt the user about a possible update. Confirm the selection, and the installer performs the update.

Command line utility ewupdate

The ewupdate command line utility performs an update with all default options if run without any arguments.  Use the –help option to print a short help screen. If you wish to use the command line updater with non-default options, use the command line arguments listed below.

Command line options

These options are also available using the ewupdate utility. Default options can be changed using the command-line options listed, which correspond to the options presented in web GUI mode. For additional update options, use the –help command to print a list of commands.

Update option

Corresponding ewupdate command-line option

Description

Backup database data using OS-level backup

-k,--skiposlevel

This command only applies if the built-in MySQL server is used. Under normal circumstances a full OS-level backup is made.  Use this option to skip the default OS-level backup of the MySQL directory. No database restoration will be possible if the upgrade fails.

Skip checkers unless any patchers were run

-p,--scup

When the application server starts it performs data checks for consistency; data checking may take a long time. Use this option to skip data checking if no data was changed on update. This may speed the application server starting.

Skip project backup if possible

-K,--skipprjbckp

At the very beginning of the update process all existing projects are saved to the backup directory. If this option is set then no project backup is performed, if allowed. Project backup is required in some update modes.

Don't delete temporary files after update

-t,--keeptemp

Upon update, temporary files are normally stored on the hard drive. These may include data backups, unpacked new

Companyname
code, etc. By default, temporary files are removed after an update. If this option is set then temporary files are left on the device and will only be deleted before the next update.

Don't backup temporary files - logs etc

 


-i,--backuptemp

If this option is set then no temporary files such as log files are backed up before the update. This saves used disk space and shortens elapsed time.

Update options

Update options allow the user to set certain update process details. When performing an update in web GUI mode, you can change the default options on the update options page, shown below:

Backup

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After confirming that you really want to uninstall the software, the uninstaller removes the current instance of 

Companyname
. Backups will be saved in the the $AL_DIR/data/backups directory, so you can restore or re-import them later. 

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