How to Upgrade Tomcat for Jaspersoft (Clarity PPM)

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

You would like to upgrade Tomcat version for Jaspersoft, but keep the existing install. How can you do that?

Environment

Any Supported Clarity Releases with Jaspersoft

Resolution

1. Stop the Jaspersoft service
2. Download and install new Tomcat in a separate folder
3. Copy and move the .jaspersoft folder and /reportservice folder from $old_tomcat to the same location for $new_tomcat
4. In .jaspersoft folder open the default_master.properties with text editor
5. Set the appServerDir to the correct path (mind the double slashes //). Save
6. Copy the database driver for the vendor you're using from $old_tomcat/lib to $new_tomcat/lib (jar file names may vary):
   • mssql-jdbc-8.2.1.jre11.jar
   • ojdbc8-19.8.0.0.0.jar
   • postgresql-42.2.6.jar
     
     
7. Start Tomcat again

Additional Information

• For Windows Service
  • You may have to either recreate the service for Apache Tomcat following these instructions
  • Or you could use the same folder name /path for the new tomcat and check if the existing Windows service will still work
• If you have done any additional configurations as in added setenv.sh file, you have to copy those from the old directory to the new Tomcat directory