Upgrade Utility

6165528 

Domains created in custom-path other than install_dir/domains directory are not upgraded directly while upgrading from Application Server Enterprise Edition 8 to Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1.

When running the Upgrade Utility and identifying the install_dir as the source installation directory, the upgrade process upgrades only those domains that are created under install_dir/domains directory. Domains created in other locations are not upgraded.

Solution

Before starting the upgrade process, copy all the domain directories from their different locations to the install_dir/domains directory.

6207337 

On some Linux systems, the installer running "Upgrade in place" fails to start upgrade tool after clicking on the "Start Upgrade Wizard" button. 

This problem has been observed on several Linux systems, it is most common on Java Desktop System 2 but has also been observed on Red Hat distributions. 

After clicking the "Start Upgrade Tool" button on the final installer screen, the installer fails to launch the upgrade tool to complete the upgrade process, and hangs indefinitely, not returning the command prompt. 

Solution

This issue is not encountered if command line installation mode is used to run upgrade in place. 

1. If you ran upgrade in place in GUI mode and encountered this problem, exit the installer by pressing Ctrl+C in the terminal window in which the installer was started.

2. Start upgrade tool from the terminal window, using following command:

   install_dir/bin/asupgrade --source install_dir/domains --target install_dir --adminuser adminuser --adminpassword adminpassword --masterpassword changeit

   adminuser and adminpassword should match the values used for the installation you are upgrading.

3. When the upgrade tool completes the upgrade process you can also start the browser and enter following URL in order to review About page:

   file://install_dir/docs-ee/about.html

If you also selected the installation option to register the product, follow the link to registration page available on product About page. 

6296105 

Self-signed certificate is not trusted during and after upgrade from 8.0 Platform Edition (PE) to 8.1 Enterprise Edition (EE) UR2. 

Solution

Remove the following entries from the target domain.xml (after the upgrade) and restart the server:

<jvm-options>-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}
/config/keystore.jks</jvm-options>-
<jvm-options>Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}
/config/cacerts.jks</jvm-options>

6331685 

Document externalizing Domain, Agent directory as workaround for file-based installer full reinstall. 

For every file-base install patch, it is often necessary to reconfigure and redo or redeploy all applications. This is a time-consuming and error-prone procedure.  

Solution

Externalize the DAS, NodeAgent, HADB, and MQ instance from the subdirectory or path of the AS8.1 installation to avoid having to perform a full reinstall. 

For example, to externalize the DAS domain to /work/jnditest:

./asadmin create-domain --domaindir /work \
--adminport 7878 --adminuser admin --instanceport 7870 jnditest

To externalize the Node Agent to /work/nagent:

./asadmin create-node-agent --agentdir=/work \
--port 7878 --host $dashost --user admin nagent

Finally, to start the externalized DAS: 

./asadmin start-domain --domaindir /work -u admin  jnditest

6436590 

Uninstalling AS7.x that is coexisting with JES causes JES appserver to fail. 

Uninstalling Application Server 7.x causes all components installed with it to be removed. Subsequently upgrading to Application Server 8.x causes that installation to fail because some of the components on which it depends are missing.

Solution 1

Do not uninstall Application Server 7.x before installing 8.x.

Solution 2

Use pkgrm SUNWas* to manually uninstall packages belonging to Application Server 7.x. For example:

8 - system       SUNWasaco    Sun Java System Application Server Admin Client, unbundled
10 - system      SUNWascmlo   Sun Java System Application Server Shared Libraries, unbundled
13 - system      SUNWascmo    Sun Java System Application Server unbundled (common)
17 - system      SUNWasdmo    Sun Java System Application Server Sample Applications, unbundled
18 - system      SUNWashaco   Sun Java System Application Server Admin Client Extension, 
                              unbundled
20 - system      SUNWashdmo   Sun Java System Application Server HA Sample Applications, 
                              unbundled
21 - system      SUNWashmano  Sun Java System Application Server Extension Manual Pages
22 - system      SUNWasho     Sun Java System Application Server HA Extension, unbundled
26 - system      SUNWasmano   Sun Java System Application Server Standard Manual Pages
27 - system      SUNWaso      Sun Java System Application Server, unbundled (opt)
28 - system      SUNWasro     Sun Java System Application Server, unbundled (root)

Note that if you use this method, you may need to use prodreg unregister to cleanup stale entries in productregistry.