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Installation / Upgrade

Note

BEFORE YOU UPGRADE: i) Before you perform an upgrade:

  1. Record the ownership and permissions for the MettleCI Home folder (usually ‘/opt/dm/mci’)

ii)
  1. Back up the MettleCI Home folder.

  1. Download the latest RPM distributable from the MettleCI software download website. The rest of these instructions assume this is located in your user’s HOME directory (~).

  2. From that directory, install the package from the shell of your DataStage Development Engine using Package Manager (RPM) (NOTE: For new installations this will create a user called ‘mciworkb’ mciworkb. A full set of changes that this process performs are listed in the Installation Details section below.)

    Code Block
    $> sudo rpm -U dm-mettleci-workbench-x.x-x.noarch.rpm
    $> # or for IBM AIX...
    $> sudo rpm -U dm-mettleci-workbench-x.x-x.noarch.rpm --nodeps --ignoreos

    … where x.x.x is the build version of the workbench you downloaded.

  3. Request a MettleCI licence from your Data Migrators contact, or request an evaluation licence from the MettleCI software download website. The license will be installed during the first step of the Post Installation wizard process.

  4. In previous versions, it was required to copy your Copy the MettleCI licence file ( which will be was emailed to you ) into the location: /opt/dm/mci/mettleci.lic. This directory was created for you by the RPM installation process.https://datamigrators.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MCIDOC/pages/459997264/Configuring+MettleCI+Workbench

  5. Start the MettleCI Workbench service using the following command

    Code Block
    languagebash
    $> sudo service dm-mettleci-workbench start
    $> # or for AIX...
    $> mciworkbench.rc start

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  1. Configure your MettleCI environment by opening the following URL in your browser: http://[SERVER_URL]:8080 to start a wizard-based process.

  2. Follow the setup wizard to provide the various configuration information MettleCI requires, e.g.

  3. Enter the license key which was requested earlier

  4. DataStage environment details

  5. Git repository details (including SSH public key)

  6. Work item management system details (including SSH public key)

Uninstall Workbench

  1. You can uninstall the MettleCI Workbench package like any other RPM package:

    Code Block
    $> sudo rpm -e dm-mettleci-workbench-x.x-x.noarch

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