Bug 1475890

Summary:	migrating dedicated databases as documented does not work
Product:	Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine	Reporter:	Felix Dewaleyne <fdewaley>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Dayle Parker <dayleparker>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Chris Budzilowicz <cbudzilo>
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Version:	5.8.0	CC:	cbudzilo, fdewaley, hhudgeon, jhardy, jkrocil, lcouzens, obarenbo, sacpatil, sputhenp
Target Milestone:	GA
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Description Felix Dewaleyne 2017-07-27 14:38:05 UTC

Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_cloudforms/4.5/html/migrating_to_red_hat_cloudforms_4.5/index#migrate_appliances_42-45

Section Number and Name: section 1.5 Migrating from CFME 5.7 to 5.8

Describe the issue: 

if using a dedicated databases, the database configuration files are missing and  migrate cannot be ran from it!

Suggestions for improvement:  we need to add a note "if you are using a dedicated database, run the ruby commands from a worker" or similer.


Additional information: 
this may need to be rephrased / a different section be added to handle dedicated databases. 

dedicatd appliances do not run any evmserverd process and have no REGION file, GUID or database configuration file

Comment 7 luke couzens 2017-08-07 09:39:34 UTC

Hi guys,

So this revision change is not going to work, there are still no migration steps for the dedicated database.

I suggest we just combine this dedicated stuff with the current HA section '1.6', this is exactly how we want to run a migration with a dedicated db. the steps will be identical to these. The only real difference is there is a single dedicated database appliance not multiple for HA.

Just renaming this section to 'Migrating High Availability and Dedicated database Environments from CFME 5.7 to CFME 5.8' should be fine. Then just change the notes to inform everyone that they should follow these steps instead.

Comment 11 luke couzens 2017-08-07 16:07:28 UTC

RFE bug opened for that issue. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1478986

Comment 14 luke couzens 2017-08-23 09:13:53 UTC

Hi Dayle,

I still think renaming/wording section 1.6 is going to be the easiest and best thing to do, perhaps you, Jan and I should have a call and discuss this stuff so we all understand it and can figure out the best way forward.

Thoughts?

Luke

Comment 15 Dayle Parker 2017-08-24 05:17:03 UTC

Hi Luke,

Sounds great -- I'd prefer the simplest way of documenting this too, but would also really like to get a better understanding of these migration scenarios via a call with you and Jan. 

Would next week work? Any day or time in your mornings/my evenings works for me, with the exception of Monday, when I couldn't do too much later than 5pm Brisbane/9am Brno/8am UK time. Feel free to send me an invite for when it's most convenient for you both.

Cheers,
Dayle

Comment 19 Dayle Parker 2017-09-12 07:28:53 UTC

Thanks for your review, Chris!

The 4.5 migration guide has now been republished with these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_cloudforms/4.5/html-single/migrating_to_red_hat_cloudforms_4.5/

Comment 20 Dayle Parker 2018-04-09 05:37:18 UTC

*** Bug 1461799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***