Post your 11.0.4 Server upgrade/install experience

[swordfish]

Hi all,

Could you share your 11.0.4 Server upgrade/install experience here?

[davidz]

Just upgraded this morning from 11.0.0 to 11.0.3. The upgrade ran fine with no problems. Only a few minor annoyances, first being it changes the files in /etc/opt/scalix-tomcat/connector back to originals so any changes made here will be lost. Not a problem, but I'd wish they would rename the old files instead of just overwriting them. I have not upgraded Outlook Connectors yet. Sometime later today maybe.

--David

PS Our server has about 180 users, only about 12 Outlook users. Everyone else is POP/IMAP. We use openLDAP for our user management via omldapsync. We run mimedefang for adding disclaimer text to outgoing emails. We also run MailMan for mailing list management. All antivirus/spam is done externally (Barracuda rocks!).

[swordfish]

Just upgraded this morning from 11.0.0 to 11.0.3. The upgrade ran fine with no problems. Only a few minor annoyances, first being it changes the files in /etc/opt/scalix-tomcat/connector back to originals so any changes made here will be lost. Not a problem, but I'd wish they would rename the old files instead of just overwriting them. I have not upgraded Outlook Connectors yet. Sometime later today maybe.

--David

PS Our server has about 180 users, only about 12 Outlook users. Everyone else is POP/IMAP. We use openLDAP for our user management via omldapsync. We run mimedefang for adding disclaimer text to outgoing emails. We also run MailMan for mailing list management. All antivirus/spam is done externally (Barracuda rocks!).

Did you have any issues with your previous 11.0.0 server, which are resolved with the new version or everything was working fine for you even before?

[davidz]

Did you have any issues with your previous 11.0.0 server, which are resolved with the new version or everything was working fine for you even before?

The server itself ran fine. That's why we never did the 11.0.2 upgrade. But we did have problems with Outlook crashing every time you exited, and other such problems.

[swordfish]

Anyone else been brave enough to upgrade the server to the new version yet?

[grahamk]

I've got a server which I am about to deploy. I upgraded from 11.0.2.1 to 11.0.3, but SAC still reports 11.0.2.23, which is the same as the 11.0.2.1 server i have running currently (if that makes sense). Essentially, i dont think the upgrade was successful, so i'm gonna run the install script again....

[grahamk]

The installer says that the upgrade was successful.

(Could not find any new Scalix packages suitable for this platform.
Perhaps you already have all Scalix components installed or are looking
in the wrong directory? Please check or try another directory.)

The other reason why i think it wasnt is because of

Bug 14847: SAC: When using external directory for user management, "Prepare SmartCache" in SAC is greyed out

I use openldap for user management, and "Prepare SmartCache" is still greyed out.

I've restarted the service, and restarted the box as well... any ideas?

EDIT: Looks like it might have been browser cache, as the correct version is now being displayed in SAC and SWA. So I would finish by saying I moved from 11.0.2.1 to 11.0.3.31 with no issues.

[stephan.klein]

I updated last night, everything up and running till now.

Two small issues:

1.
configuration files are overwritten as mentioned here before (Debian install). I would suggest to backup them or to keep the old ones and put a copy of the new ones with different name in the matching directories.

2.
indexer reindexed the mailboxes after upgrade, the system was not really responsible for about six hours.

[swordfish]

2.
indexer reindexed the mailboxes after upgrade, the system was not really responsible for about six hours.

How many users do you have and how big is your mail store to take 6 hours for reindexing?

[stephan.klein]

My mailstore size is about 16 GB with 11 users.

Maybe it took some time because of the hardware - a quad P3 750 Xeon with 1,5 GB of Ram

[rogueind]

Just upgraded from Scalix 10.0.1.3 to 11.0.3 - Almost perfect upgrade! (Good Job Scalix Guys!) I did run into three minor snags:

1) The default JRE in my omldapsync sync.cfg pointed to an instance that didn't exist - editing the sync.cfg pointed to a line that said : JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_05 when the scalix installer put in: jre1.5.0_06, a quick change to 06 and away i went syncing.

2) My Scalix server is RHEL4 x86_64 (64-bit) and the dep check kept failing on libpng. Doing an `rpm -qa | grep libpng` showed that it was installed, and after a little bit of fiddling i realized that it was the 64 bit version. Another quick fix - run `up2date libpng --arch=i386` and the dep check is happy.

3) Since i sync with AD, and i upgraded from 10, i already had the scalix AD extensions installed. I uninstalled the old ext and installed the new ext, only to find i had a "Scalix General" tab, but no "Scalix Advanced" tab. Running ScalixForestPrep.exe --register solved the problem!

I had a roughly 50 Gig "mailstore" before running the indexer, so I'm rather curious to see what size it will be when it is finished. I'll post when complete.

So, yet again, outstanding work to the Scalix Guys for making all of this possible, as well as the community for making this _really_ work.

BTW, i remember seeing a public bugtraq for scalix 11, but i can't seem to find it again, where is the appropriate place to let someone know of the "issues" i had - or is this it?

Thanks!

--Brian.

[TheDude]

I upgraded from 11.01 to 11.03 with minimal problems.

After making sure all the services were running, I could not login to the mobile client, but, after restarting the server this was fixed.

Also, the etc\mail\sendmail.cf file is overwritten with each of these incremental upgrades, disabling spamassasin until you add back the changes. I understand why this file is being overwritten (for users upgrading from version 10.x, with bad settings or fresh installs), but, how about putting a check in the installer to see if the user is upgrading from 11.x and if so not overwrite this file, since there are no changes with this file between any of these 11.x upgrades. That would be great and would trim the upgrade time to less than 20 minutes.

11.03 is the fastest and most bug free yet! Anyone holding out with version 10 needs to step up!

Thanks for a great product.

The Dude

[needle]

I upgraded from 11.0.2.1 to 11.0.3 on Debian.

I made a backup of all the config files in
/var/opt/scalix/myname thanks to other peoples experience.

After installing the deb packages I had to reapply changes to
/var/opt/scalix/myname/caa/scalix.res/config/ubermanager.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/mobile/mobile.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/platform/platform.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/res/config/res.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/sis/sis.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/webmail/swa.properties

I stopped all services with the scripts in /etc/init.d and executed ompatchom. I started all services again and started the web client. It still showed an 11.0.2 version. The same for sac.

Searching through /var/opt/scalix/myname/tomcat I found that in the directory webapps nothing was updated to the new version. So I manually extracted the contents of the .war files in /opt/scalix/web into the subdirectories and restarted.

Now all is showing version 11.0.3 and seems to work fine.

[frankv]

Anyone holding out with version 10 needs to step up!

That's what I was waiting to hear.

Thanks for sharing. ;)

[Jeremy James]

Hello Folks,
i had a very short night because i had got really big trouble from my customer who was suffering with his Outook from Bug 14630 (http://bugzilla.scalix.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14630) and i had to do the update from 11.0.2. to 11.0.3. and prayed that it would solve the problem.

for debian i can confirm the reports the other users shared, that the config files of the tomcat connector get overwritten and that the following files stay UNCONFIGURED:

/var/opt/scalix/myname/caa/scalix.res/config/ubermanager.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/mobile/mobile.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/platform/platform.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/res/config/res.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/sis/sis.properties
/var/opt/scalix/myname/webmail/swa.properties

but the latter is not critical since the updater saves a copy of the old config file as *.old and so one can revert back fast to the old settings. Also it is true indeed that even i had to manually extract the war files into the tomcat webapps folders manually

besides that things seem to be running smooth, customer has not complained yet (keep fingers crossed)