Introduction
IntroThis page provides information on how to upgrade a Kiuwan On-Premises Distributed installation. Note that this guide only applies to Kiuwan On-Premises installations distributed installations done using the kiuwan-cluster tool.
Checking for updates
Currently installed versions and latest available versions of Kiuwan On-Premises are shown in the System Administration Console. To access this page, log into your Kiuwan On-Premises installation as "sysadmin".
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Sometimes new versions of Kiuwan clients are published to fix bugs or include new features. If new versions of Kiuwan On-Premises clients are available and you want to upgrade your installation, please follow these steps.
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Please do not mix up what a Kiuwan On-Premises client version is. These are different concepts:
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Step 1: check your current configuration
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kiuwan.clients.update=true |
Step 2: check the status of Kiuwan On-Premises infrastructure
To upgrade Kiuwan On-Premises clients it is mandatory that at least these elements of the provided infrastructure are up and running:
- MySQL
- Redis cluster
Note that this is the minimum needed for the update to run, there are no restrictions to Kiuwan services. This means that it is safe to update Kiuwan On-Premises clients WITHOUT stopping any of the provided services or containers.
Step 3: upgrade your Kiuwan On-Premises clients
Open a terminal to the host where you downloaded and run kiuwan-client to install Kiuwan On-Premises, change the directory where the tool was untared ([INSTALLER_DIR]) and execute this command:
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sudo ./update-clients.sh |
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4: check your Kiuwan On-Premises clients installations
Once the update process is finished, all the published clients in your Kiuwan On-Premises installation will be ready to be downloaded. Check the specific client guide to see how to upgrade each client installation:
- Kiuwan Local Analyzer: upgrades automatically when started whenever your Kiuwan On-Premises servers provide a new version to download.
- Kiuwan Engine: upgrades automatically from Kiuwan Local Analyzer, as long as your Kiuwan On-Premises servers provide a new version and your engine is not frozen (see Engine documentation for more information on this topic).
- Kiuwan for developers:
- Eclipse: check Kiuwan for Developers for Eclipse-based IDEs user guide.
- JetBrains: check Kiuwan for Developers for JetBrains user guide.
- Microsoft Visual Studio: check Kiuwan for Developers for Microsoft Visual Studio user guide.
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code: check Kiuwan for Developers for Microsoft Visual Studio Code user guide.
- Kiuwan Jenkins plugin: check Jenkins plugin user guide.
- Kiuwan TFS extension: check Microsoft TFS-Azure DevOps Extension user guide.
Upgrading Kiuwan On-Premises (full)
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