Deploying Delivery

A delivery is deployed into IFS Applications using the IFS Applications Installer. You start the IFS Applications Installer from your <ifs_home>. Note that the IFS Applications Installer installs all parts of a delivery (database, middle-tier and client). Make sure to refer to the patch notes to see if any special considerations are needed.

Follow these steps:

  1. Start IFS Applications Installer.
    This is done by starting the installer script located in the <ifs_home> folder.
  2. In the Manage Application Server Instance window, select one of the options Install delivery (recommended) or Install delivery and reconfigure described below:
     
    1. Install delivery
      This means running the installation and reconfiguration with the same parameters as the previous run with minimal operator interference.
    2. Install delivery and reconfigure
      This means manually accepting existing parameters in each window with the possibility to modify them.       The installer preserves all settings from the last installation/reconfiguration, so normally you just accept the values set.
       
  3. Select the delivery to be deployed.
    Set the location of your delivery (e.g. c:\delivery62111).
  4. Click the Next button.
    The delivery will be analyzed and validations will now be done. Some comments:

    1. When the delivery includes the installer itself (installer.jar), a restart will be forced after that the file has been replaced. If the installation for some reason cannot be performed, you can manually restore the previous installer version by restoring the file <ifs_home>/repository/installer/installer.old to <ifs_home>/repository/installer/installer.jar.
    2. A delivery containing configuration files affecting parameters or the install plug-in logic will force an Install delivery and reconfigure.
    3. When running in the Install delivery mode, depending on the contents of the delivery some forms can still be displayed requiring user input, example:
      • If the delivery includes files to be imported, a form with valid selections will be displayed for verification.
      • If the delivery contains an install.tem (i.e. it contains database files) you need to enter the password to the application owner account in order to deploy these files into the database.
  5. Start the installation
    Click the Execute button to start the deployment. The contents of the delivery will be installed to the <ifs_home>/repository and the instance will be configured.
  6. Exit the installer.
  7. Follow up the database log files for further actions

Note: If a delivery contains a Java update, a JSF Binary Patch or a MWS Binary Patch then any existing cluster nodes should be recreated/updated.

Note: The steps for deploying the client to a Linux server can be found here below Deploying to a Linux server.