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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Upgrading legacy packages with patch Post 303043799 by Neo on Friday 7th of February 2020 04:23:05 AM
Old 02-07-2020
Normally if we are making upgrades to mission critical applications in 100s of servers in a large organization with a risk management team we should notify them if if we plan any upgrades which may cause an outage.

You should test in a test bed, make a plan, identify the risks and notify your risk management team.

Upgrading the core "mission critical" application on 200-300 web servers requires planning and team work.

What happens if you make a mistake and bring down the application(s)? Do you want your organization to be caught off guard when customers are calling in, angry their service is down?

You have described a major infrastructure upgrade. You certainly do not want to upgrade with YUM over a manually installed configuration until you have completed tested this idea in a test bed, insure you have backups of each application and database before hand, etc. In other words, you need a plan in coordination with your IT risk management team, customer service, etc.

This is how we work as IT professionals.
 

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Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib(3pm)

NAME
Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib - Utilities for writing Wiki::Toolkit tests. DESCRIPTION
When 'perl Makefile.PL' is run on a Wiki::Toolkit distribution, information will be gathered about test databases etc that can be used for running tests. Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib gives convenient access to this information. SYNOPSIS
use strict; use Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib; use Test::More; my $iterator = Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib->new_wiki_maker; plan tests => ( $iterator->number * 6 ); while ( my $wiki = $iterator->new_wiki ) { # put some test data in # run six tests } Each time you call "->next" on your iterator, you will get a fresh blank wiki object. The iterator will iterate over all configured search and storage backends. METHODS
new_wiki_maker my $iterator = Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib->new_wiki_maker; number use Test::More; my $iterator = Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib->new_wiki_maker; plan tests => ( $iterator->number * 6 ); Returns the number of new wikis that your iterator will be able to give you. new_wiki my $wiki = $iterator->new_wiki; Returns a fresh blank wiki object, or false if you've used up all the configured search and storage backends. configured_databases my @configured_databases = $iterator->configured_databases; Returns the @configured_databases array detailing configured test databases. Useful for very low-level testing only. SEE ALSO
Wiki::Toolkit AUTHOR
Kake Pugh (kake@earth.li). COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Kake Pugh. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 2008 the Wiki::Toolkit team. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. CAVEATS
If you have the Search::InvertedIndex backend configured (see Wiki::Toolkit::Search::SII) then your tests will raise warnings like (in cleanup) Search::InvertedIndex::DB::Mysql::lock() - testdb is not open. Can't lock. at /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Search/InvertedIndex.pm line 1348 or (in cleanup) Can't call method "sync" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Tie/DB_File/SplitHash.pm line 331 during global destruction. in unexpected places. I don't know whether this is a bug in me or in Search::InvertedIndex. perl v5.14.2 2011-09-25 Wiki::Toolkit::TestLib(3pm)
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