Installation/Appliance/Maintenance
| Maintenance |
 | This document is still a work in progress. It may contain inaccuracies or errors. |
 | This document refer to the current appliances with Ubuntu that will be published on mid-March, If you are using the OLD appliances with rPath go here |
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Introduction
This document describes how to maintenance the Openbravo server at a system admin level.
Network
Configure network with dhcp
Open the network config file
sudo nano /ect/network/interfaces
Edit the entry of eth0, it should end like this
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
Then you need to reboot the network
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Configure network with static ip
Open the network config file
sudo nano /ect/network/interfaces
Edit the entry of eth0, it should end like this
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address <IP> netmask <NETMASK> gateway <GATEWAY> dns-nameservers <DNS-1> <DNS-2>
Then you need to reboot the network
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
I'm getting localhost as the IP address
If you are getting localhost as the IP address after booting the Appliance, then this section is for you. This typically happens when your network doesn't have a DHCP server that can provide an IP address to the Appliance. In these cases you need to manually assign an IP address to that Appliance.
Apache
The folder of Apache is /etc/apache2
Restart Apache
Usually not needed to restart it
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If you only want apache to take new configuration, sometimes it is enough doing a reload
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Monitoring
Updates
Normal minor updates
Remember that if there is updates in PostgreSQL or Tomcat they will be restarted, so do this updates when nobody is working on the server.
To update the apt repositories
sudo apt-get update
To update all the minor updates, needed to stop tomcat before and start after
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat stop sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat start
If there is kernel updates you need to reboot the server in order to use the new kernel.
So if you are unsure of what services you need to restart after update or don't know what are the kernel packages, a recommendation it is to reboot the server after an update.
Major release upgrade
The command that perform a mayor release upgrade it is 'do-release-upgrade'
Do 'NOT' execute this command !! In mayor upgrades can not be guarantee that Openbravo will continue working.
We will update this wiki when an upgrade to a next mayor version it is ready and tested.