Upgrade VigorACS3 by OTA on Linux

VigorACS provides OTA script for Download and Upgrade, this article will guide you on how to upgrade your ACS and keep all your data.

VigorACS 3 is only compatible with MariaDB 10 and above. If your MariaDB version isn’t up to date, please backup the database and upgrade MariaDB with VigorACS 3 installation.

1. Backup the database

The database will remain after the upgrade; however, we still strongly recommend backup the database of VigorACS before you start. Please refer to this article to see how to backup the database.

2. Stop ACS service

Please login with root or root permission.

Execute vigoracs.sh in path= /usr/local/vigoracs/VigorACS/bin

# cd /usr/local/vigoracs/VigorACS/bin/vigoracs.sh

Input 6 to shutdown VigorACS service.

3. Download ACS 3

Extract VigorACS 3 OTA package via the command in your ACS 3 OTA file path.

# tar -jxv -f VigorACS_OTA_Linux_3.5.0_r4522.tar.bz2 (-C /path/for/extract/file)

※ you can use the parameter: -C to designate extracted file path.

Modify the permission of ota.sh and execute it.

# cd /path/for/extract/file

# chmod 755 ota.sh

# ./ota.sh

It will start to download the latest VigorACS installation files. We can upgrade ACS after the download finishes, enter y to upgrade ACS.

4. Upgrade Java

Input 6 to upgrade Java

Input y to upgrade jdk

5. Upgrade ACS3

Input 8 to upgrade ACS

Input 1 to use Local side database

Input 1 to use ACS MySQL

Input the password of root of MariaDB and input y to test

Input your Influxdb version(It’s shown on ACS UI About>Software Update>System Info)

Input n to keep current JBoss configuration

Input 10 after ACS upgrade finishes

6. Start ACS3 service

Execute vigoracs.sh in path= /usr/local/vigoracs/VigorACS/bin.

# cd /usr/local/vigoracs/VigorACS/bin/vigoracs.sh

Input 5 to start ACS

Enter ACS port and memory configuration

We will see VigorACS PID after it starts.

Now new VigorACS3 is ready to go

After ACS upgrade by ota.sh, the auto software upgrade will be available on ACS UI when there is a new version. ACS can be upgraded in the background by just clicking Download and Upgrade.