PingAccess cluster upgrade parameters
The command-line parameters are the same regardless of the platform, and are defined as follows.
Parameter definitions
Parameter | Value description |
---|---|
-r | --disable-config-replication |
Disables configuration replication on the admin node. For more information about using this parameter in an upgrade, see the Zero Downtime Upgrade. |
-p <admin_port> |
Optional port to be used by the temporary PingAccess instance run during the upgrade. The default is 9001. |
-i <directory> |
An optional directory containing additional library JAR files, such as plugins, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers to be copied into the target installation. Beginning in version 6.0, During an upgrade from versions earlier than 6.0, third-party During an upgrade from version 6.0 or later, the contents of the |
<sourcePingAccessRootDir> |
The PA_HOME for the source PingAccess version. |
-l <newPingAccessLicense> |
An optional path to the PingAccess license file to use for the target version. If not specified, the existing license is reused. |
-j <jvm_memory_options_file> |
An optional path to a file with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory options to use for the new PingAccess instance during the upgrade. |
-s | --silent |
Run the upgrade with no user input required. To use this option, specify the source version’s credentials using environment variables. |
Environment variables
You can specify the username and password for the source version using these environment variables:
-
PA_SOURCE_API_USERNAME
– The username for the source version’s Admin API. This should be set to Administrator. -
PA_SOURCE_API_PASSWORD
– The basic authorization password for the Administrator in the source version’s Admin API.
Java virtual machine (JVM) memory options
These options can be included in the JVM memory options file. Memory amounts use m
or g
to specify the unit.
-
-Xms<amount>
– Minimum heap size. -
-Xmx<amount>
– Maximum heap size. -
-XX:NewSize=<amount>
– Minimum size for the Young Gen space. -
-XX:MaxNewSize=<amount>
– Maximum size for the Young Gen space. -
-XX:+UseParallelGC
– Specifies that the parallel garbage collector should be used.
You can copy the existing <PA_HOME>/conf/jvm-memory.options
file to create a JVM memory options file for the upgrade.
Example
#Sample JVM Memory options file -Xms512m -Xmx1g -XX:NewSize=256m -XX:MaxNewSize=512m -XX:+UseParallelGC