Upgrading the MobileFirst runtime environment for MobileFirst Server v6.3.0

In these postinstallation steps, you set or restore configurations for MobileFirst Server, its databases, and MobileFirst Operations Console, and restart the application server.

Since IBM Worklight v6.0.0, it is possible to deploy several MobileFirst runtime environments to an application server. You must perform these steps for each MobileFirst runtime environment that you deployed and to upgrade to v6.3.0. If we migrated a MobileFirst runtime environment and deployed it on multiple application servers, all instances must be upgraded.

Complete each of the following steps, as required for the particular upgrade path.

• Stop all Worklight Server instances
  Before you complete subsequent upgrade steps, you must shut down all Worklight runtime environments. You must also disable the auto start mode of the Worklight Console if you upgrade from IBM Worklight v6.0.0.x on WebSphere Application Server full profile.

• Shutting down the application server to be upgraded
  For certain configurations, in this step you shut down the application server before completing subsequent steps.

• Installation or upgrade of MobileFirst Server Administration Services
  As part of the MobileFirst Server upgrade, install the Administration Services, and optionally the MobileFirst Operations Console.

• Back up the runtime and reports databases
  Back up the contents of the project.databases.

• Upgrade the runtime and reports databases
  You must move the data that is related to administration to the administration database. You must also upgrade the runtime and the reports databases to a schema that is compatible with MobileFirst Server v6.3.0.

• Upgrade the MobileFirst Server runtime environment
  In this step, you run the Ant script to upgrade MobileFirst runtime environment to v6.3.0. You must repeat this procedure as many times for each runtime environment to upgrade.

• Restore the Worklight Server Configuration
  In this step you restore the required configurations of Worklight Server that you made note of in a previous step.

• Restart the application server
  In this final step, you restart the application server.

Parent topic: Upgrading to MobileFirst Server v6.3.0 in a production environment