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Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features are included in this release.

• Improved Agent-initiated Connectivity Status Check

  The agent-initiated connectivity status check has been improved and is now quicker and more accurate.

• Application Copy

  You can copy applications and linked components.

• Improved Version Clean-up

  Version clean-up has been improved. It is now significantly faster and the scheduling options are more flexible.

• Automatic Termination of User Sessions

  Internal workflow sessions are automatically terminated when a process finishes.

• Other Enhancements
  • A single resource can be mapped to multiple components in one action.
  • Process requests can be canceled directly from a process request page.
  • The Sleep feature has an option to provide a due date.
  • Enhanced version counter filter: inactive and archived versions can be ignored.

For details about new features, installation, and configuration see the Deployment Automation User's Guide or User's Help on Documentation Center.

Defect Fixes

See the Knowledge Base for a list of defects fixed in this release.

Backing Up Deployment Automation

Before upgrading the server, you should back up your current server:

1. Stop Common Tomcat.
2. Run the following backups in any order.
   Note:

   • These backups should be done in a single session while Common Tomcat is stopped so that the data stays in sync.
   • The default profile and installation locations are different in version 6.1.4 (and later) than in earlier versions of Deployment Automation.
   1. Back up your database. If Derby is used this step can be omitted.
   2. Back up your Deployment Automation profile folder and its subfolders.

      The default location of the profile for Deployment Automation version 6.1.4 and later is:

      Windows: C:\Users\username\.microfocus\da

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/MicroFocus/da/username/.microfocus/da

      where username is the name of the system user under which the server was installed

      The default location of the profile for Deployment Automation versions earlier than 6.1.4 is:

      Windows: C:\Users\username\.serena\ra

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/serena/sra/username/.serena/ra

      Tip:

      To find the location of your profile for earlier versions of Deployment Automation, view the installed.properties file under the da or serena_ra web application and look at the installLocation property. You can find the installed properties in the Common Tomcat web application conf folder.

      The default location for the installed.properties file for Deployment Automation version 6.1.5 and later is:

      Windows: C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\common\tomcat\8.5\webapps\da\conf

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/MicroFocus/da/common/tomcat/8.5/webapps/da/conf

      The default location for the installed.properties file for Deployment Automation version 6.1.4 is:

      Windows: C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\common\tomcat\8.0\webapps\da\conf

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/MicroFocus/da/common/tomcat/8.0/webapps/da/conf

      The default location for the installed.properties file for Deployment Automation versions 6.0 to 6.1.3 is:

      Windows: C:\Program Files\Serena\common\tomcat\8.0\webapps\serena_ra\conf

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/serena/sra/common/tomcat/8.0/webapps/serena_ra/conf

   3. If you have any subfolders in your profile that are virtual links pointing to external storage such as relocated CodeStation directories, you should back up those external storage locations as well.
   4. Back up your da or serena_ra web application. It is recommended that you back up the entire webapps folder, but at minimum back up the web application folder and its subfolders.

      The default location for Deployment Automation version 6.1.5 and later is:

      Windows: C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\common\tomcat\8.5\webapps\da

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/MicroFocus/da/common/tomcat/8.5/webapps/da

      The default location for Deployment Automation version 6.1.4 is:

      Windows: C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\common\tomcat\8.0\webapps\da

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/MicroFocus/da/common/tomcat/8.0/webapps/da

      The default location for versions 6.0 to 6.1.3 is:

      Windows: C:\Program Files\Serena\common\tomcat\8.0\webapps\serena_ra

      UNIX/Linux: /opt/serena/sra/common/tomcat/8.0/webapps/serena_ra

3. Continue with your upgrade.

Upgrading Servers

You can upgrade to 6.2.2 from the following releases on Common Tomcat servers only:

• Deployment Automation version 5.1.2 through to and including 6.2.1.
• Serena Release Automation versions 5.1 and 5.1.1.

You can upgrade directly to this version from:

• 6.0.0
• 6.2.1

If you are upgrading from other versions, follow the paths below to ensure a smooth upgrade of the Common Tools, Tomcat, and JRE. This is especially important for servers on UNIX/Linux.

• Versions 6.1 to 6.1.3, upgrade to each of these releases in this sequence: 6.1.4, 6.1.5, 6.2, 6.2.1, and 6.2.2
• Version 6.1.4, upgrade to each of these releases in this sequence: 6.1.5, 6.2, 6.2.1, and 6.2.2
• Version 6.1.5, upgrade to each of these releases in this sequence: 6.2, 6.2.1 and 6.2.2
• Versions 5.1 to 5.1.6: upgrade to 6.0 and then 6.2.2
• Versions earlier than version 5.1: upgrade to version 5.1 as documented in the version 5.1 Deployment Automation User's Guide. Then upgrade to version 6.2.2 (see the previous item in this list).

If Dimensions CM is installed locally and you are upgrading a DA installation, you must stop all CM services including the Dimensions CM HTTP connector, before upgrading DA.

For any other upgrade scenarios, contact Support for assistance.

To upgrade a Deployment Automation server:

1. Before beginning the upgrade, complete all pending approvals if possible and then back up your current server as detailed in Backing Up Deployment Automation.
   Important: If you do not complete pending approvals before upgrading, the associated requests are revoked and must be rerun or rescheduled.
2. Download and run the version 6.2.2 server installer.

3. UNIX/Linux Only: As part of the upgrade installation process for a Deployment Automation UNIX/Linux server system, you must specify the owner of the Deployment Automation installation.

   You must ensure that the user specified is also the owner of the Common Tomcat instance, especially when Common Tomcat hosts other applications in addition to Deployment Automation. The owner is the user name used to run the Common Tomcat process. During the upgrade, folders inside the Common Tomcat instance are configured as owned by the specified owner, and if the user name and owner do not match, the Common Tomcat process may not be able to read them or write to them.

   The ownership of the entire Common Tomcat installation is set to the specified user name.

4. Access the web interface using the new URL format:

   http(s)://<serverName>:<port>/da

   where serverName is the server where the Common Tomcat resides that hosts Deployment Automation and port is the Common Tomcat port.

   Use http for non-SSL and https for SSL installations.

   For example: http://myhost:8080/da

5. Continue with Server Configuration Upgrades as needed.

Server Configuration Upgrades

Common Tomcat is version 8.5 in Deployment Automation version 6.1.5 and later. Changes you should be aware of if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 6.1.5 include:

• The default directory structure is as follows:
  • Windows: C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\common\tomcat\8.5
  • UNIX/Linux: /opt/MicroFocus/da/common/tomcat/8.5
• All connectors, such as port number, customization, and SSL configuration are automatically identified and updated in the new Common Tomcat directories during the server upgrade.
• You must manually copy any additional applications running under Common Tomcat, such as Dimensions CM and ZMF Connector, to the new directory structure.
• If you are using SSO, you must configure SSO again, including setting the parameters in the gatekeeper-core-config.xml file.

  You must set these parameters by copying the corresponding strings from the earlier version of the gatekeeper-core-config.xml file. Copying and replacing the entire file from the earlier Common Tomcat installation does not work.

About Notification Schemes

The new notification schemes are added to existing schemes during the server upgrade. To keep backward compatibility, if changes for a scheme are detected, the upgrade does not affect that scheme; otherwise, the scheme is upgraded to the latest version.

About JRE Versions

The Deployment Automation 6.2.2 server and agent are installed with JRE 8.0 on all platforms.

• Servers support only Java version 8.0 (Java JRE or JDK 1.8.0.25 or later)
• Agents support Java 7.0 and 8.0 (Java JRE or JDK 1.7.0.25 or later and 1.8.0.25 or later)
• Agent relays support only Java 8.0 (Java JRE or JDK 1.8.0.25 or later)
• Server upgrades: the installer moves the entire JRE installation to this location: common/jre/8.0.pre.1.8.2.0. If you are using user certificates (cacerts), after the upgrade completes you must restore this file: common/jre/8.0.pre.1.8.2.0/lib/security/cacerts
• The server upgrade creates backup directories for earlier versions or update levels of Java. The directories contain backups of earlier versions of the directories. The backed up versions of the directories are as follows:
  • alfssogatekeeper.pre.1.8.1.0
  • lib.pre.1.8.1.0

About JDBC Files

The required JDBC driver files that are used by Deployment Automation versions 6.0 and later to connect to the Deployment Automation database are provided by the installer. This means you do not have to download the drivers before you perform a new Deployment Automation install. If you are upgrading from an earlier version and you modified the standard JDBC drivers, the upgrade process preserves your existing JDBC files and connection information, and automatically copies the files to the appropriate directory location for you.

About Agent and Agent Relay Upgrades

For details on upgrading Deployment Automation agents and agent relays, see the Deployment Automation User's Guide or online Help.

About Plugin Upgrades

For details on upgrading Deployment Automation plugins, see the Deployment Automation User's Guide or User's Help.

About Custom and External Source Configuration Type Upgrades

When upgrading from earlier releases using source configuration types that are now implemented as external, the upgrade is done automatically. There should be no noticeable difference when using components with these source configuration types. After the upgrade, the external source configuration types are listed in Administration > Automation > Source Config Types.

Any upgrades you make to your custom source configuration types are done in the corresponding Java code. As a best practice you should load your updated Jar file into a test Deployment Automation system and test the upgraded functionality before loading it into your product system, since it is an extension of the product.

If you load a source configuration type Jar file with a different set of source configuration types than those used when it was originally loaded, some of the source configuration types may be deleted from Deployment Automation. You will receive a warning, and if you confirm the deletion, you will need to reconfigure any components that use the deleted source configuration types.

For details on creating and loading Deployment Automation custom source configuration types, see the Deployment Automation Integration Guide or online Help.

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