How to Upgrade Tomcat for Jaspersoft (Clarity PPM)

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

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

Environment

Release : Any

Resolution

1. Stop 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