I want to give credit to Epicor for streamlining the update process. Friday evening we updated from 10.2.200.6 to 10.200.10 on premise in 45 min. This included taking a backup, updating 7 app servers and a handful of systems connections. No way in the past (read E9) would we ever had been able to start at 5:30 pm and be out the door at 6:15 pm.
Thank you for making it easier for us to stay current.
We have been doing a ton of review of our CLI internally for SaaS Ops and making some improvements and additions. Everything we automate in SaaS Ops / ISV Partner Sandboxes / QA is through PS now so we are building a nice knowledge base. There is some question on the value of some of the … more extravagant scripting … and custom nature of the scripting.
Anyone else out there automating the DB Conversion of 40 db at once? I don't know how many (dozen) app servers in our automated QA nightly builds, etc.
So the applicability of the scripts are up to debate. Especially when most of it is advanced PowerShell. It’s something I am monitoring closely and we are adding to the core ERP CLI as we go - along with some low level gory improvements as we dig into some quirks of Azure.
Wait a second. You are updating 40 db’s as well as updating the app servers and task agents on a nightly basis? And this is all being done with Powershell and no human intervention?
Also, what is the ERP CLI? Is there an actual CLI or are you just using the Invoke-RestMethod in Powershell?
nonono… well not exactly. Hmm… okay, will need to do a blog post on what’s possible in automation. I don’t want to steal the post with such kind words. We 've had a lot of smart people doing some great things and these kinds words have been passed on to them.
My environment is not that large, but i do experience the same. It’s getting easier and faster to stay up to date.
maybe Bart can share some ‘scripts’ to get us encouraged with fully automated updating