Upgrading Apache Tomcat (within CA7 Web Client UI)

Products

• CA 7 Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

 Is it possible to upgrade Apache Tomcat separately within the CA7 Web Client?

Resolution

Here are the steps to upgrade Apache Tomcat for Web Client on Windows: 

1. Stop the Ca 7 Web Client Services
2. from dos prompt go to the tomcat bin dir and run the removeservice.bat this will remove the current tomcat services. 
3.  download the new Tomcat version
4. put the new Tomcat version in the CA 7 Web Client directory 

4. rename the older tomcat version to ".old"

5.  go to webapps directory in old version and copy .war file and the ca7wai_appl dir to the new tomcat webapps directory

6. copy entire Webclientconf directory to new tomcat directory

7. if you made any changes in the content.xml and server.xml copy them over to the new tomcat conf directory 

8. copy 4 files from old tomcat/bin directory to the new tomcat/bin
      caservice
      installservice
      removeservice
      setenv
9. from a dos prompt go to the Tomact bin dir and run the installservice.bat this will install the new Tomcat service
 
10. Go to services and start Web Client Services