In this distributed setup, TeamForge, Oracle database and other services are distributed across three servers, server-01 through server-03 as illustrated in the following table.
You can install TeamForge on both RHEL/CentOS 7.4 and 6.9. In this distributed setup, all the following services are installed on RHEL/CentOS 7.4 servers.
server-01 | server-02 | server-03 |
---|---|---|
TeamForge Application Server | Oracle Database Server | EventQ Server |
ctfcore | ctfcore-database | eventq |
ctfcore-datamart | rabbitmq | |
etl | mongodb | |
search | redis | |
codesearch | ||
gerrit | ||
gerrit-database | ||
subversion | ||
cvs | ||
reviewboard | ||
reviewboard-database | ||
reviewboard-adapter1 | ||
binary | ||
binary-database | ||
cliserver |
Dos and Don’ts
Here’s a list of dos, don’ts and points to remember when you install or upgrade TeamForge.
Dos
- Understand TeamForge installation requirements and plan your installation or upgrade.
- Get your TeamForge license key and keep it handy.
- Verify your basic networking setup before installing or upgrading TeamForge. See Set Up Networking for TeamForge.
- Look for new or modified
site-options.conf
tokens and update yoursite-options.conf
file as required during the upgrade process. See Site Options Change Log. - Set up a TeamForge Stage Server before you upgrade your Production Server.
- Stop TeamForge services on all servers in a distributed setup while upgrading to TeamForge 18.1.
- Uninstall hot fixes and add-ons, if any, before you start the TeamForge 18.1 upgrade procedure.
-
TeamForge 18.1 supports Java 9. As a result of changes to the logging framework in Java 9, the
PrintGCDetails
andPrintGCTimeStamps
logging options are no longer supported. Remove these options from the following tokens while upgrading to TeamForge 18.1 or later.- JBOSS_JAVA_OPTS
- PHOENIX_JAVA_OPTS
- INTEGRATION_JAVA_OPTS
- ETL_JAVA_OPTS
- ELASTICSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS
TeamForge provision fails on sites that use these options post TeamForge 18.1 upgrade.
Don'ts
- Do not customize your operating system installation. Select only the default packages list.
- While upgrading TeamForge, whether in place or on new hardware, always reuse the old
site-options.conf
file and make changes as necessary. Do not try to start with a newsite-options.conf
file. Reusing the oldsite-options.conf
avoids many potential problems, particularly around the management of usernames and passwords. - Do not manually modify TeamForge-managed site option tokens such as the
AUTO_DATA
token. See AUTO_DATA for more information. -
If you are creating symlinks, note that you must create symlinks only to the TeamForge data directory (
/opt/collabnet/teamforge/var
). You should not create symlinks to TeamForge application directories (such as/opt/collabnet
).
Points to Remember
- Installing or upgrading TeamForge needs root privileges. You must log on as root or use a root shell to install or upgrade TeamForge.
- SSL is enabled by default and a self-signed certificate is auto-generated. However, you can use a few
site-options.conf
tokens to adjust this behavior. To generate the SSL certificates, see Generate SSL Certificates. - For the ETL service to run as expected in a distributed TeamForge installation, all servers must have the same time zone.
- If you have Git integration on a separate server, both TeamForge and Git servers must have their time and date synchronized.
- While you can run both EventQ and TeamForge on the same server, CollabNet recommends such an approach only for testing purposes. It’s always recommended to run EventQ on a separate server for optimal scalability.
- No backup is required for same hardware upgrades. However, you can create a backup as a measure of caution. See Back up and Restore TeamForge for more information.
- Always use compatible JDBC drivers meant for specific database versions. See JDBC Drivers Reference for more information. Also see: Why do ETL jobs fail post TeamForge upgrade?.
- You can run the initial load job any time after the installation of TeamForge. We recommend that you run it before you hand over the site to the users. For more information, see ETL Initial Load Jobs.
- SOAP50 APIs and event handlers are no longer supported in TeamForge 16.10 and later. Use the latest TeamForge SOAP/REST APIs.
- TeamForge 18.1 installer expects the system locale to be
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
. TeamForge create runtime (teamforge provision
) fails otherwise. - Installing TeamForge with service-specific FQDNs (instead of machine-specific host/domain names) is highly recommended so that you will be able to change the system landscape at a later point in time without having any impact on the URLs (in other words, end users do not have to notice or change anything). For example, you can create FQDNs specifically for services such as Subversion, Git, mail, Codesearch and so on. For more information, see Service-specific FQDNs.
- All such service-specific FQDNs must belong to a single sub domain and it is recommended to create a new sub domain for TeamForge.
- If you are using service-specific FQDNs
- A wildcard SSL cert is required. SNI SSL cert cannot be used.
- When SSL is enabled and no custom SSL certificates are provided, a self-signed wildcard cert is generated for the sub domain.
- When SSL is enabled and a custom SSL certificate is provided, the CN of the certificate is verified to be a wildcard CN.
- You cannot have a separate PUBLIC_FQDN for EventQ.
- The ability to run separate PostgreSQL instances for TeamForge database and datamart on the same server is being deprecated in TeamForge 17.11. If you have TeamForge database and datamart on separate PostgreSQL instances on the same server and if you are upgrading on a new hardware, you must Create a Single Cluster for Both Database and Datamart while upgrading to TeamForge 17.11 or later.
- While upgrading TeamForge-Git integration servers, it is important that Git master and slave servers are upgraded to the same version of TeamForge-Git integration. On sites with Git Replica Servers, you must upgrade the Git Replica Servers first and then upgrade the master Git servers.
Prepare the Servers for TeamForge Installation (server-01 through server-03)
-
Install RHEL/CentOS 7.4 and log on as root.
The host must be registered with the Red Hat Network if you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
See the RHEL 7.4 Installation Guide for help.
-
Check your networking setup. See Set up Networking for more information.
-
TeamForge Installation Repository Configuration for Sites with Internet Access
- Contact the CollabNet Support and download the TeamForge 18.1 installation repository package to
/tmp
. - Install the repository package.
yum install -y /tmp/collabnet-teamforge-repo-18.1-0-noarch.rpm
- Refresh your repository cache.
yum clean all
TeamForge Installation Repository Configuration for Sites without Internet Access
- Contact the CollabNet Support to get the auxiliary installer package for TeamForge 18.1 disconnected installation and save it in
/tmp
.- RHEL/CentOS 7.4 64 bit:
CTF-Disconnected-media-18.1.446-1261.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
- In addition to the above CentOS 7.4 64 bit RPM package, you must get the following CentOS 7.4 compatibility RPM, which is required for TeamForge 18.1 disconnected media installation on CentOS 7.4 profile:
compat-ctf-dc-media-1.0-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
.
- RHEL/CentOS 7.4 64 bit:
- Unpack the disconnected installation package.
rpm -ivh <package-name>
- Unpack the
compat-ctf-dc-media-1.0-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
package if you are installing TeamForge 18.1 on CentOS 7.4.rpm -ivh compat-ctf-dc-media-1.0-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
-
If not mounted already, mount the RHEL/CentOS installation DVD.
The DVD contains the necessary software and utilities required for installing TeamForge without internet access. In the following commands, replace “cdrom” with the identifier for your server’s CD/DVD drive, if necessary.
cd /media/ mkdir cdrom mount /dev/cdrom ./cdrom/
If there are any spaces in the automount, unmount it first and mount it as a filepath, with no spaces.
- Create a yum configuration file that points to the RHEL/CentOS installation DVD.
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/cdrom.repo
Here’s a sample yum configuration file.
[RHEL-CDROM] name=RHEL CDRom baseurl=file:///media/cdrom/Server/ gpgfile=file:///media/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
- Verify your yum configuration files.
yum list httpd yum list apr
You need not configure the TeamForge installation repository on the Oracle Database Server.
- Contact the CollabNet Support and download the TeamForge 18.1 installation repository package to
Install the TeamForge Services
- Install the TeamForge application services on the TeamForge Application Server (server-01)
yum install teamforge
- Install the Review Board services on the TeamForge Application Server (server-01)
yum install teamforge
- Download the corresponding version of Oracle client and run the following command on the TeamForge Application Server (server-01).
yum localinstall <path to oracle client rpm>
- Install EventQ services on the EventQ Server (server-03)
yum install teamforge-eventq
Set up the Oracle Database Server (server-02)
-
Install Oracle 12c.
Note: Make sure your database uses UTF8 or AL32UTF8 encoding. This is needed to support users in Asian languages. See this Oracle knowledge base article. - Log on to the Oracle Database Server as a system administrator with
SYSDG
privilege and run the following query.alter system set parallel_threads_per_cpu=4;
-
Log in as an Oracle user and create the site database user and permissions.
To use an Oracle database for your TeamForge data, set up the Oracle database and tell the TeamForge installer how to handle it.
TeamForge Database Setup
Note: Make sure your database uses UTF8 or AL32UTF8 encoding. This is needed to support users in Asian languages. See this Oracle knowledge base article.- Connect to your Oracle database.
SQL> connect <adminusername>@<db_name>/<adminpassword> as sysdba
- Create the database user and password you will use to connect from TeamForge to Oracle.
SQL> create user <sf user> identified by <sf passwd> default tablespace <your tablespace> temporary tablespace <temporary tablespace>;
- Grant permissions to the user that you just created.
SQL> grant unlimited tablespace to <sf user>; SQL> grant create snapshot to <sf user>; SQL> grant create cluster to <sf user>; SQL> grant create database link to <sf user>; SQL> grant create procedure to <sf user>; SQL> grant create sequence to <sf user>; SQL> grant create trigger to <sf user>; SQL> grant create type to <sf user>; SQL> grant create view to <sf user>; SQL> grant query rewrite to <sf user>; SQL> grant alter session to <sf user>; SQL> grant create table to <sf user>; SQL> grant create session to <sf user>; SQL> grant create any synonym to <sf user>; SQL> exit
- Create the database read-only user that you will use to connect from TeamForge.
SQL> create user <database_readonly_user> identified by <database_readonly_password> default tablespace <your tablespace> temporary tablespace <temporary tablespace>;
- Grant the required permissions to the read-only user that you just created.
SQL> grant create session to <database_readonly_user>; SQL> exit
- Connect to your Oracle database as
. SQL> connect <sf user>@<db_name>/<sf passwd>
- Grant the ‘create synonym’ permission on TeamForge database to the read-only user that you just created.
SQL> begin for i in (select table_name from user_tables) loop execute immediate 'grant select on '|| i.table_name||' to <database_readonly_user>'; execute immediate 'create synonym <database_readonly_user>.'||i.table_name||' for '||i.table_name||''; end loop; end; SQL> exit
TeamForge Datamart Setup
Note: Make sure your database uses UTF8 or AL32UTF8 encoding. This is needed to support users in Asian languages. See this Oracle knowledge base article.- Connect to your Oracle database.
SQL> connect <adminusername>@<db_name>/<adminpassword> as sysdba
- Create the datamart user you will use to connect from TeamForge.
SQL> create user <reports_database_user> identified by <reports_database_password> default tablespace <your tablespace> temporary tablespace <temporary tablespace>;
- Grant permissions to the user that you just created.
SQL> grant unlimited tablespace to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create snapshot to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create cluster to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create database link to <sreports_database_user>; SQL> grant create procedure to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create sequence to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create trigger to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create type to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create view to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant query rewrite to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant alter session to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create table to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create session to <reports_database_user>; SQL> grant create any synonym to <reports_database_user>; SQL> exit
Note: Replacewith the datamart username specified in the site-options.conf and with the database password specified in site-options.conf. - Create the datamart read-only user that you will use to connect from TeamForge.
SQL> create user <reports_readonly_user> identified by <reports_readonly_password> default tablespace <your tablespace> temporary tablespace <temporary tablespace>;
- Grant the required permissions to the read-only user that you just created.
SQL> grant create session to <reports_readonly_user>; SQL> exit
Note: The TeamForge installer creates the tables and default values for you. - Connect to your Oracle database as
. SQL> connect <reports_database_user>@<db_name>/<reports_database_password>
- Grant the ‘create synonym’ permission on TeamForge datamart to the read-only user that you just created. SQL> begin
for i in (select table_name from user_tables) loop execute immediate 'grant select on '|| i.table_name||' to <reports_readonly_user>'; execute immediate 'create synonym <reports_readonly_user>.'||i.table_name||' for '||i.table_name||''; end loop; end; SQL> exit
- Connect to your Oracle database.
- Log on to the TeamForge Application Server and copy the Oracle Datamart setup script from
/opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/
to the/tmp
directory of the Oracle Database Server (server-02).scp /opt/collabnet/teamforge/runtime/scripts/datamart-oracle-setup.sh <username>@<server-02>:/tmp
- Copy the Oracle Datamart setup script to
/u1
directory.mkdir /u1 cp /tmp/datamart-oracle-setup.sh /u1
-
Create the reporting user and schema.
Tip: Skip this step if you have already set up the datamart as discussed earlier. Your responses to thedatamart-oracle-setup.sh
script’s prompts must match the values of the equivalent variables of the TeamForge Application Server’ssite-options.conf
file.cd /u1 sh datamart-oracle-setup.sh
Set up the TeamForge Application Server (server-01)
Log on to the TeamForge Application Server (server-01), set up the site-options.conf
file, and provision the services.
- Rename the sample Oracle site configuration file in the
/opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/
directory.cd /opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/ cp site-options-oracle.conf site-options.conf
- Set up your site’s master configuration file.
vi /opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/site-options.conf
host:SERVICES Token
server-01:SERVICES=ctfcore mail etl search subversion cvs codesearch cliserver gerrit gerrit-database binary binary-database reviewboard reviewboard-database reviewboard-adapter server-02:SERVICES=ctfcore-database ctfcore-datamart server-03:SERVICES=eventq mongodb redis rabbitmq
host:PUBLIC_FQDN Token
server-01:PUBLIC_FQDN=my.app.domain.com
Note: You cannot have a separate PUBLIC_FQDN for EventQ.Configure the Oracle Database Tokens
Configure the Oracle database name, usernames and passwords as configured on the Oracle Database Server.
- Database type is
oracle
(DATABASE_TYPE=oracle
) - Database service name is the host name of the Oracle Database Server (for example,
DATABASE_SERVICE_NAME=cu349.maa.collab.net
) - Reports database service name is the host name of the server where the datamart is (for example,
REPORTS_DATABASE_SERVICE_NAME=cu349.maa.collab.net
)
DATABASE_TYPE=oracle # Adjust usernames/passwords to match what has been configured on the database server. DATABASE_USERNAME=ctfuser DATABASE_PASSWORD=ctfpwd DATABASE_READ_ONLY_USER=ctfrouser DATABASE_READ_ONLY_PASSWORD=ctfropwd DATABASE_NAME=orcl DATABASE_SERVICE_NAME= # Adjust usernames/passwords to match what has been configured on the database server. REPORTS_DATABASE_USERNAME=ctfrptuser REPORTS_DATABASE_PASSWORD=ctfrptpwd REPORTS_DATABASE_NAME=orcl REPORTS_DATABASE_READ_ONLY_USER=ctfrptrouser REPORTS_DATABASE_READ_ONLY_PASSWORD=ctfrptropwd REPORTS_DATABASE_SERVICE_NAME=
Save the
site-options.conf
file.For further customization of your site configuration (SSL settings, password policy settings, PostgreSQL settings, LDAP settings and so on):
SSL Tokens
SSL is enabled by default and a self-signed certificate is auto-generated. Use the following tokens to adjust this behavior.
SSL_CERT_FILE= SSL_KEY_FILE= SSL_CHAIN_FILE=
- To generate the SSL certificates, see Generate SSL certificates.
- Have the custom SSL certificate and private key for custom SSL certificate in place and provide their absolute paths in these tokens. SSL_CHAIN_FILE (intermediate certificate) is optional.
Password Tokens
- TeamForge 7.1 and later support automatic password creation. See AUTO_DATA for more information.
-
Set the REQUIRE_PASSWORD_SECURITY token to
true
to enforce password security policy for the site.If the token REQUIRE_PASSWORD_SECURITY is enabled, then set a value for the token, PASSWORD_CONTROL_EFFECTIVE_DATE.
Warning: The Password Control Kit (PCK) disables, deletes or expires user accounts that don’t meet the password security requirements starting from the date set for thePASSWORD_CONTROL_EFFECTIVE_DATE
token. If a date is not set, the PCK disables, deletes or expires user accounts immediately. See PASSWORD_CONTROL_EFFECTIVE_DATE for more information.You can also set the following tokens to enforce a more stricter password policy:
- If the token REQUIRE_RANDOM_ADMIN_PASSWORD is already set to
true
, then set the token ADMIN_EMAIL with a valid email address.ADMIN_EMAIL=root@{__APPLICATION_HOST__}
- If you have LDAP set up for external authentication, you must set the REQUIRE_USER_PASSWORD_CHANGE site options token to
false
.
Prevent Cross-site Scripting
An attacker could potentially upload an HTML page to TeamForge that contains active code, such as JavaScript. This active code would then be executed by clients’ browsers when they view the page, which can harm the system.
To prevent an attack of this sort, you can specify whether or not HTML code is displayed in TeamForge. This flag applies to all documents, tracker, task, and forum attachments, and files in the file release system.
Set the SAFE_DOWNLOAD_MODE token according to your requirements. For more information, see SAFE_DOWNLOAD_MODE.
JAVA_OPTS
Configure the JBOSS_JAVA_OPTS site-options.conf token. See JBOSS_JAVA_OPTS.
Note: All JVM parameters but-Xms1024m
and-Xmx2048m
have been hard-coded in the TeamForge core application. You need not manually configure any other parameter (such as-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=128M
-server -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-Djsse.enableSNIExtension=false
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=600000
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=600000
) in the site-options.conf file.TeamForge 18.1 (and later) supports Java 9. As a result of changes to the logging framework in Java 9, the
PrintGCDetails
andPrintGCTimeStamps
logging options are no longer supported. Remove these options from the following tokens while upgrading to TeamForge 18.1 or later.- JBOSS_JAVA_OPTS
- PHOENIX_JAVA_OPTS
- INTEGRATION_JAVA_OPTS
- ETL_JAVA_OPTS
- ELASTICSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS
TeamForge provision fails on sites that use these options post upgrade to TeamForge 18.1.
Save the
site-options.conf
file. - Database type is
- Provision services.
teamforge provision
TeamForge 18.1 installer expects the system locale to beLANG=en_US.UTF-8
. TeamForge create runtime (teamforge provision
) fails otherwise.
Set up the EventQ Server (server-03)
Log on to the EventQ Server (server-03), set up the site-options.conf
file, and provision the services.
-
Copy the
/opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/site-options.conf
file from the TeamForge Application Server to the EventQ Server’s/opt/collabnet/teamforge/etc/
directory. -
Provision services.
teamforge provision
TeamForge 18.1 installer expects the system locale to beLANG=en_US.UTF-8
. TeamForge create runtime (teamforge provision
) fails otherwise.
Verify TeamForge Installation
- Verify TeamForge installation.
- Reboot the server and make sure all services come up automatically at startup.
- Log on to the TeamForge web application using the default Admin credentials.
- Username:
admin
- Password:
admin
- Username:
- Create a sample project. See Create a TeamForge Project.
- Write a welcome message to your site’s users. See Create a Site-wide Broadcast.
Post Install Tasks
- Supply Your TeamForge License Key
- Run TeamForge in SELinux
enabled
Mode - Install EventQ Integration Adapters
- Users are not getting email notifications for review requests and reviews. What should I do?
-
reviewboard-adapter
must always be installed on the TeamForge Application Server. ↩