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Update: On June 24 the 2.5.0 version was removed from the download section. It will be replaced with 2.5.1 in mid-July. Any implementer who needs to upgrade should use 2.4.1.

For all existing installations of 2.0.X and 2.1.X, important upgrade instructions exist in the previous 2.12.2, 2.3 and 2.4 Release notes. 

  • To upgrade from 2.0.X follow the upgrade instructions for 2.12.22.3 and 2.4 Release Notes before deploying the 2.5.1 code
  • To upgrade from 2.1.X follow the upgrade instructions for the 2.22.3 and 2.4   Release Notes before deploying the 2.5.1 code
  • To upgrade from 2.2.X follow the upgrade instructions for the  2.3 and 2.4  Release Notes before deploying the 2.5.1 code
  • To upgrade from 2.3 follow the 2.4 Release Notes before deploying the 2.5.1 code
  • New installations of 2.5.1 are not required to make any additional change

If you are running a SSP version prior to 1.1.1, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade or otherwise apply the reporting subsystem security patches described by SSP-701.

If you are running SSP version 2.0.0 or 2.0.0-b3, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 2.0.1 or 2.1.0 or 2.2.0 or later or otherwise apply the Confidentiality Level-related patches for the Student Documents tool as described by SSP-1917.

All implementers of this release should consider installing the patches listed in the commit section of the SSP-2721 issue details.

Also please take a few minutes to review additional security-related announcements detailed at the top of the SSP space here in Confluence.

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  • Maven 3.0.3 or later
    • Download Loation: http://maven.apache.org
    • Environment Variable: MAVEN_HOME

      Tip
      titleMaven Environment Variables
      MAVEN_HOME= /path/to/your/maven (ie: /usr/local/maven or C:\tools\maven)
      M2_HOME= /path/to/your/maven (ie: /usr/local/maven or C:\tools\maven)

      (optional)
      PATH= append the bin subdirectory to the path statement
       
      Blacklist several known-bad repos. If you don't already have a ~/.m2/settings.xml, use the following:
      • No Format
        <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                              http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
          <profiles>
            <profile>
              <id>exclude-bad-repos</id>
              <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
              </activation>
              <repositories>
                <repository>
                  <id>codehaus</id>
                  <url>http://repository.codehaus.org</url>
                  <releases>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                  </releases>
                  <snapshots>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                  </snapshots>
                </repository>
                <repository>
                  <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
                  <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
                  <releases>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                  </releases>
                  <snapshots>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                  </snapshots>
                </repository>
                <repository>
                  <id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
                  <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
                  <releases>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                  </releases>
                  <snapshots>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                  </snapshots>
                </repository>
              </repositories>
            </profile>
          </profiles>
        </settings>

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  • Ant 1.8.2 (use this exact version)
    • Download Location: http://ant.apache.org

    • Environment Variable: ANT_HOME

      Tip
      titleAnt Environment Variable
      ANT_HOME= /path/to/your/ant (ie: /usr/local/ant or C:\tools\ant)

      (optional)
      PATH= append the bin subdirectory to the path statement
  • Sencha SDK
  • RDBMS (support for PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server)
    • PostgreSQL 9.1 or later
      • Download Location: http://www.postgresql.org
        • On Unix:
        • On Mac:
          • PostgreSQL is available via the homebrew package manager or as a download on the postgresql.org site.
        • On Windows:
          • PostgreSQL is available as a download on the postgresql.org site.
      • Configure PostgreSQL
        • Server Connection
          • Launch the PG Admin application
          • In the Object Browser, navigate to and right click on Server Groups -> Servers -> PostgreSQL 9.1 (localhost:5432)
          • Click Connect and the enter the administrator password
        • Login Roles
          • In the Object Browser, right click on Login Roles and click New Login Role
            • In the Properties tab, enter a Role name of "sspadmin" without the quotes

            • In the Definition tab, enter a Password of "sspadmin" without the quotes

          • In the Object Browser, right click on Login Roles and click New Login Role


            • In the Properties tab, enter a Role name of "ssp" without the quotes

            • In the Definition tab, enter a Password of "ssp" without the quotes

          • Confirm the new Login Roles exist in the Object Browser
        • Database
          • In the Object Browser, right click on Databases and click New Database
            • Enter "ssp" without the quotes as the database name
            • Enter "sspadmin" without the quotes as the database owner
          • Confirm the new database exists in the Object Browser
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
      • Server Connection
        • Launch the SQL Server Management Studio application
        • Enter your database connection info including administrator account credentials, and click Connect
      • Login Roles
        • Navigate to Security->Logins, and right click on New Login
          • Login name of "sspadmin" without the quotes
          • Select SQL Server authentication and enter a Password of "sspadmin" without the quote
          • Uncheck Enforce password policy
        • Right click on Logins again, and New Login Role
          • Login name of "ssp" without the quotes
          • Select SQL Server authentication and enter a Password of "ssp" without the quote
          • Uncheck Enforce password policy
        • Confirm the new users exist
      • Database
        • Navigate to and right click on Databases and click New Database
          • Enter "ssp" without the quotes as the database name
        • Confirm the new database exists
        • Run the following SQL to assign user permissions and configure the required database settings

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Currently SSP supports use of PosgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, or 2008
Code Block
For MSSQL 2008 or later:

ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase
 SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION ON
ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase
 SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON
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titleRDBMS Platform Flexibility

Also note that for SQLServer the "operational" SSP database user ('ssp' in the example above) must be allowed to execute stored procedures. In most deployments this does not require special configuration, but in the event your security policies are such that that user must be explicitly granted execute permissions on specific stored procs, here are the statements which you would likely need to run. (Use 'dbo' for <schema> unless you know the value should be something else (db_schema from $SSP_CONFIGDIR/ssp-config.properties); use 'ssp' for <ssp-operational-user> unless you've chosen a different name for that account (db_username from $SSP_CONFIGDIR/ssp-config.properties).):

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GRANT EXEC on <schema>.REFRESH_MV_DIRECTORY_PERSON to <ssp-operational-user>;
GRANT EXEC on <schema>.REFRESH_MV_DIRECTORY_PERSON_BLUE to <ssp-operational-user>;
GRANT EXEC on <schema>.update_directory_person_from_view_where_school_id to <ssp-operational-user>;
GRANT EXEC on <schema>.update_directory_person_from_view_where_person_id to <ssp-operational-user>;

 

 

Info
titleRDBMS Platform Flexibility

Currently SSP supports use of PosgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, or 2008 R2.  The project team develops and tests against PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Future support for Oracle and other RDBMS is planned.

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  • Use the following command to build, deploy, and initialize the SSP-Platform project:

 

Code Block
*** When running a database initialization ant target (initportal, initdb), you need to specify SSP_CONFIGDIR if it isn't already specified as an env var. 

E.g on *nix....*** When running a database initialization ant target (initportal, initdb), you need to specify SSP_CONFIGDIR if it isn't already specified as an env var. 

E.g on *nix.... $> SSP_CONFIGDIR=/opt/ssp/sspconfig ant -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean <target> 

Most Common Commands

- Re/Initialize the SSP-Platform database, then run the equivalent of deploy-ear. Destructive! Appropriate for first-time deployments.

  $> SSP_CONFIGDIR=/opt/ssp/sspconfig ant -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean <target> 

Most Common Commandsinitportal

- Build entire uPortal (incl. all wars), and deploy entire uPortal, ant deploy-ear

- Build the full site and database, ant initportal (Warning- this will reset the entire uPortal database)


Other deployment optionsSSP-Platform portal, including SSP:

  $> SSP_CONFIGDIR=/opt/ssp/sspconfig ant -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean deploy-ear


Other commonly used ant targets:

testdb: Tests the database settings and connectivity

initdb: Drop uPortalSSP-Platform tables in the db & recreate them with configured seed data (src/main/data, not including the "quickstart" folder).

deploy-war: Build & deploy _just the uPortalSSP-Platform war_ (i.e. not SSP or other portlets, etc.).

deployPortletApp: Deploy one (already-built) portlet war file to Tomcat (example ant deploPortletApp -DportletApp=..\/SSP-Open-Source-Project/target/ssp.war)
Info
titleNOTE
This command will download the SSP .war file and bundle it into the output of the SSP-Platform build
ssp.war)

 

  • Additional step for Microsoft SQL Server to update column types

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  • Warning
    titleDelete Demo Users

    If you are deploying to a production upgrading an environment, you should delete or change the passwords for the uPortal users created for demonstration purposes, including the admin user. This can be done through the user interface: Manage Users ->  Find an Existing User -> [Enter user ID from list below] -> [Click result] -> Delete or  or Edit, then change password. Demo users:

    admin

    • advisor0
    • ken
    • student0
    • student1

    This is only necessary for upgrades. A fresh 2.5.1 install will not create these users.

    A fresh install should also either change the admin user's password or add some other user to the Portal Administrators group and delete the admin user.

If anything in it is incorrect or unclear, please leave a comment below.

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