{"id":718,"date":"2021-01-21T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ume.li\/blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:33:56","slug":"hcl-connections-7-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ume.li\/blog\/2021\/01\/21\/hcl-connections-7-update\/","title":{"rendered":"HCL Connections 7 – update"},"content":{"rendered":"

We updated our productive HCL Connections environment last week from 6.5CR1 to 7. This time we decided to do an inplace update.<\/p>\n

Upgrade WAS to 8.5.5.18 on commandline :<\/p>\n

cd \/opt\/ibm\/InstallationManager\/eclipse\/tools\r\n.\/imcl install com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85_8.5.5018.20200910_1821 -repositories \/data\/install\/unpacked\/wasfp18\/ -acceptLicense<\/pre>\n
The Connections update itself did not provide any surprises.
\nThe database wizard was a bit creepy as it wanted to do a db update from 2.5 to 7 in the first place. After switching to the db2inst1 user, it still wanted an update from 3 to 7 for wikis and files db. So we decided to go through the wizards connections.sql directory and run any upgrade-XY-70.sql scripts. There’s only one for homepage.<\/p>\n
Export PDF: there’s a post install step <\/a>hidden, deep inside the help on how to install wkhtmltopdf.<\/p>\n
Upgrade the Component Pack to 7 required some steps.
\nI decided to upgrade our kubernetes environment to 1.18.latest first. Then install helm3 and migrate all the stuff from helm2 using helm 2to3 Plugin<\/a><\/p>\n
What am I missing at the moment: all my previous metrics data. The elasticsearch got updated from 5.5 to 7 which does not automatically update the elasticsearch indices. I have not found a way to update these properly yet.<\/p>\n
The next step was to prepare all the *.yml files from the samples to my environment.
\nAfter applying all the new helm builds all the pods updated. Nothing worked. All the pods were up, but neither \/appreg nor \/social worked.<\/p>\n
I only got a 404 from nginx.<\/p>\n
After some debugging with krew’s tail<\/a> plugin, it was clear that I had some issues with the ingress definitions.<\/p>\n
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\nLooks like the ingress controller has some issues with regex and wildcard definitions.
\nTo fix this issue I added these 2 ingress definitions. <\/p>\n
\r\napiVersion: extensions\/v1beta1\r\nkind: Ingress\r\nmetadata:\r\n  annotations:\r\n    kubernetes.io\/ingress.class: nginx\r\n    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io\/rewrite-target: \/\r\n  name: my-ingress-appreg\r\n  namespace: connections\r\nspec:\r\n  rules:\r\n  - host: 'connections.belsoft.ch'\r\n    http:\r\n      paths:\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: appregistry-client\r\n          servicePort: 7000\r\n        path: \/appreg\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: te-creation-wizard\r\n          servicePort: 8080\r\n        path: \/te-creation-wizard\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: community-template-service\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/comm-template\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: admin-portal\r\n          servicePort: 8080\r\n        path: \/cnxadmin\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: sanity\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/sanity\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
and <\/p>\n
\r\n---\r\napiVersion: extensions\/v1beta1\r\nkind: Ingress\r\nmetadata:\r\n  annotations:\r\n    kubernetes.io\/ingress.class: nginx\r\n  name: my-ingress-appregistry\r\n  namespace: connections\r\nspec:\r\n  rules:\r\n  - host: 'connections.belsoft.ch'\r\n    http:\r\n      paths:\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: appregistry-service\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/appregistry\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: orient-web-client\r\n          servicePort: 8000\r\n        path: \/social\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: itm-services\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/itm\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: community-suggestions\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/community_suggestions\/api\/recommend\/communities\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: connections-ui-poc\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/connections-ui\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: teams-presence-service\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/teams-presence\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: teams-share-service\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/teams-share-service\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: teams-share-ui\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/teams-share-ui\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: teams-tab-api\r\n          servicePort: 3000\r\n        path: \/teams-tab\/api\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n      - backend:\r\n          serviceName: teams-tab-ui\r\n          servicePort: 8080\r\n        path: \/teams-tab\r\n        pathType: ImplementationSpecific\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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