Applying Connect Server patch

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Last updated: Dec 17, 2021 by Ashhad AlamVersion comment
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This section lists the prerequisites and steps for applying and verifying this patch.

Though every release of Adeptia comes with seamless upgrades and bug-free patches, for customer's complex use cases, we recommend applying the patch in a non-production environment first followed by testing. After the use cases run successfully without any errors or warnings, you can apply the patch in the production environment. 

Prerequisites

  • You have Read and Write permissions on all sub-folders and files of .../AdeptiaConnect-<Version>.
  • Services such as Kernel, WebRunner, and AIMap are stopped.  
  • Take backup of connect_export.xml file from <ConnectServerInstallFolder>\AdeptiaServer\ServerKernel\MigrationUtility location. This backup file will help you replicate the manual changes that you may have done in this file in the past before applying this patch.  
  • Take backup of securityContext.xml file from AdeptiaServer\ServerKernel\etc\saml location. This backup file will help you replicate the manual changes that you may have done in this file in the past before applying this patch. 
  • No process flow or transaction should be in running, waiting or queued state. 
  • Ensure that you have followed the Prerequisites' instructions given on the Upgrade page.

Applying the patch

 For Windows
  1. Download the latest patch from the provided URL.
  2. Extract the downloaded zip file in a folder.
  3. Open the Command Prompt.
  4. Go to the folder where you have extracted the zip file.

  5. Run the following command to apply the patch:

    Apply-Patch.bat “<Path where Connect Server is installed till AdeptiaServer folder>” 

    For example:

    Apply-Patch.bat   
    "C:/Program Files/AdeptiaConnect-x.x/ConnectServer/AdeptiaServer"
    or 
    Apply-Patch.bat  
    "C:/Program Files/AdeptiaSuite-x.x/AdeptiaServer"

    Once the patch is applied, a confirmation message will be displayed.

    Note: While applying the patch you may come across following warning messages that you should ignore.

    Warning: Not deploying connect2.0 accelerator because no change list is present.
    Warning: Not deploying EDI accelerator because no change list is present.

 For Linux

 
Before you apply this patch on Linux, ensure that you take back up of your existing startup.sh and stop.sh files. 

  1. Open the Terminal.
  2. Download the latest patch from the provided URL.
  3. Extract the downloaded zip file in a directory.
  4. Go to the directory where you have extracted the zip file.

  5. Run the following command to apply the patch:

    ./Apply-Patch.sh <Path where Connect Server is installed till AdeptiaServer folder> 

    For example:

    ./Apply-Patch.sh /mnt/AdeptiaConnect-x.x/ConnectServer/AdeptiaServer

    or

    ./Apply-Patch.sh /mnt/AdeptiaSuite-x.x/AdeptiaServer

    Note: While applying the patch you may come across following warning messages that you should ignore.

    Warning: Not deploying connect2.0 accelerator because no change list is present.
    Warning: Not deploying EDI accelerator because no change list is present.

    Once the patch is applied, a confirmation message will be displayed.

After you have applied the patch, PatchApplicationLog_<Date>.log file is created inside the logs folder. The logs folder is available in the same folder from where you have applied the patch. PatchApplicationLog_<Date>.log file contains the logs generated during patch application and can be used to troubleshoot any issue related to the patch application.

Patch application may take some time, in case there are a large number of records in the backend and log database.

The patch will automatically rollback, in case of any error during the deployment.

After applying this patch, refer to post patch deployment section for manual changes.

Post patch deployment steps

In this release, some manual changes are required in Connect Server.

Changes in connect_export.xml

  1. Navigate to .../<AdeptiaInstallFolder>/AdeptiaServer/ServerKernel/MigrationUtility folder.
  2. Open connect_export.xml in a text editor.

  3. Add the following code snippet just after the tag </ExportType>. 

    <!--Possible value of comparison operator (">",">=","<","<=")-->
<!--<ModifiedDate
comment="Specify the date(YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) along with comparison operator"><![CDATA[> 2021-05-24 16:39:10]]></ModifiedDate>-->

  4. Save the file.


Changes in securityContext.xml

  1. Go to …<ConnectServerInstallFolder>\AdeptiaServer\ServerKernel\etc\saml location.

  2. Open securityContext.xml file.

  3. Update the xsi:schemaLocation attribute as shown in the following code snippet. 

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans classpath:org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security classpath:org/springframework/security/config/spring-security-5.6.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context classpath:org/springframework/context/config/spring-context.xsd">
  4. Save the file.

Verifying Connect Server patch

To verify whether the patch is applied successfully:

  1. Go to …<ConnectServerInstallFolder>\AdeptiaServer\ServerKernel\etc\CVS location.

  2. Open the Tag file.

  3. Check the Build Tag. If the build tag matches the tag of the Connect Server, it indicates that the Connect Server patch is deployed successfully.


Next step

Applying Connect Portal patch