Thingworx Upgrade guide

[amittal1]

Hi,

Is there a particular guide or series of steps that we have to follow while upgrading from Thingworx 8.4.5 to 8.4.11.

I mean is there any DB upgrade script or something else, or I can just replace the WAR file.

I am using MSSQL as persistence provider.

I know that when upgrading from Thingworx 8.4 to 8.5 we have to follow certain steps, which includes running DB update scripts and some backup, but I was not able to find any such information when I want to upgrade from 8.4.5 to 8.4.11.

Thanks in advance

Aditya Mittal

[Rocket_Max · Accepted solution]

Hello Mittal,

Here are some reference steps and I hope these informations can help you.

Applying a patch for upgrade for ThingWorx 8 and later (e.g. 8.3.0 to 8.3.1)

1. Stop Tomcat
2. Generate backups
   1. Backup thingworx database as per article ThingWorx Backup And Recovery
   2. Backup \ThingworxStorage
   3. Backup \ThingworxPlatform
   4. Backup <tomcat_home>
      • <tomcat_home> is the location where Apache Tomcat is installed on the drive
3. Delete <tomcat_home>\webapps\Thingworx folder
4. Download ThingWorx war file from support.ptc.com > Popular Tasks > Download Software > Order or Download Software Updates > ThingWorx Foundation > Select the preffered version
5. Replace Thingworx.war file in <tomcat_home>\webapps with new patch file
6. Delete folders under <tomcat_home>\work folder (Optional)
7. Start Tomcat
8. Delete cache of client browser
9. Perform full regression testing to validate that custom extensions/Mashups are performing accordingly

If you need more information, please refer to Artice https://www.ptc.com/cn/support/article/CS182505?art_lang=en

BR,

Max

[amittal1]

Thanks for the reply Max.

Regards

Aditya