How to apply a Hotfix or EBF

Preconditions.

  • You must be able to use a command prompt to continue. If not, please contact your system administrator to assist.

  • Please read the Release Notes of the version to be installed.

  • It is highly recommended to backup your system before updating. This especially includes the databases, file storage areas, configuration files and binaries distributables.

Installation of Hotfix or EBF on Product 360 Server

EBF packages contain only delta plugins which have been changed. In order to recognize such packages, the suffix delta is contained in its name. Hotfixes and Major releases have the suffix full in its name.

Before applying an Hotfix or Major update, you have to update the Control Center itself. See P360 - Control Center Migration

  • Login into the Control Center

  • Navigate to the installation tab

  • With the upload functionality, upload all packages you want to deploy. Do not rename or extract any of the packages that are delivered.

  • If you want to deploy also accelerator plugins or custom plugins, you can also upload them. Custom plugins have to be uploaded separately as jar file.

  • Please note that all uploaded files will be deployed and overwrite the existing files. But all files will be backuped in a folder, so you can revert them if something went wrong.

  • By clicking the upload button, the update process will start and all configured servers will be updated. All configuration files on the server will be also replaced with the ones that are located in the Control Center package.

  • Execute steps in PIM - Core Database Migration by running setup to your existing database connection in order to update existing database.

Generally, you should run your custom JUnit tests in order to ensure that your custom functionality is still working.

Installation of Hotfix or EBF on Product 360 Desktop

  • Before updating the Desktop you should execute the migration of the Server first.

  • For Hotfix or Major updates:

    • Remove content of Product 360 Desktop Installation Folder and unzip the content of the new release package (EBF only apply delta.)

    • Update the configruation files if you have any customizings here. Instead of copying the whole file, rather copy only your changes, since there might be some new settings which then will be overwritten.

  • For EBF's:

    • Remove the existing plugins with old revision and then place the plugin with new revision which are part of the EBF.