xAPPnow Low Code Platform - Update Procedure

To update the installation of the xAPPnow Low Code Platform the new xAPPnow bundle has to be obtained.

Unpacking into a APPOLLO_HOME directory

The following pre-installation tasks have to be done:

Download the bundle appollo-installation-cloud-<version>-bundle.tar from the URL provided by Appollo Systems
Obtain license file and mail configuration file mail-config.properties, both files given by Appollo team.

1. Decompress appollo-installation-cloud-<version>-bundle.tar on an empty directory APPOLLO_HOME

tar -xvpf appollo-installation-cloud-<version>-bundle.tar -C <APPOLLO_HOME>

Parameter Explanation:

APPOLLO_HOME is the root directory for the installation
<version> is the version number in the .tar package.

2. Stop the instance

./appollo-stop.sh <INSTANCE_NAME>

3. Make a backup (See Operations Backup-Restore)

4. Execute update command

./appollo-update.sh --name <INSTANCE_NAME> --port <WEB_PORT> --yf-lic <LICENSE_FILE> [--pg-password-file <PASSWORD_FILE>] [--pg-port <PG_PORT>] [--pg-external-name <POSTGRES_EXTERNAL>] [--mail-config <MAIL_CONF>] [--secrets-conf <SECRETS_FILE>] [--environment-conf-path <ENVIRONMENT_FILE>] [--no-dwh] [--enable-kibana] [--db-archive-path <MOUNT_VOLUME_PATH>] [--ldap-config <LDAP_CONF>] [--enable-metrics] [--flush-metrics]

If parameter PG_PORT is not specified, an assigned free port will be used.