VE License Server Software Upgrade

Please note:

• If you are not familiar with the installation of RPM packages, please refer to the regular user's guide or your Linux system documentation.
• You do not need to stop running emulator instance before upgrading the license server.

To upgrade the license server package, perform the following steps:

1. Use sftp to connect to the cloud instance.
   # sftp -i ~/.ssh/<mykey>  <user>@<cloud-instance-ip>
   where
   <mykey> is the private key of the keypair you associated with your cloud instance
   <user> is the privileged user associated with your cloud instance (e.g., "opc" on OCI, or "centos" for a CentOS instance on AWS)
   <cloud-instance-ip> the ip address of your cloud instance
   
   
2. Copy the software package to the cloud instance using the following sftp command:
   > put <local-path-to-license-server-package>
   
   
3. Use ssh to log in on the cloud instance.
   # ssh -i ~/.ssh/<mykey> <user>@<cloud-instance-ip>


4. As a privileged user (root) go to the directory where you stored the installation package and update the package:
   1. Become the root user:          # sudo -i
   2. Go to the package location:   # cd <path-to-package-directory>
   3. Install the package:             
      1. Linux 7.x: # yum update license-server*.rpm
      2. Linux 8.x: # dnf update license-server*.rpm

Normally, the license server will restart and continue to work normally. To check the status, perform the following steps:

• Look at  the license server log in /opt/license-server/license_log.
• Use the ps command to check that the server is running:
  # ps -ef |grep license-server

About an hour after the installation check the emulator log files of any active instances to verify that no unexpected problem has been caused by the new version.