<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Tony,<div><br></div><div>I agree, most patches are aimed at the mailbox nodes. However, there is some inherent risk in ignoring what's advised in the release notes for the install of a patch where it's advised to install it on all ZCS nodes, and just applying it only to the mailbox nodes. With the phasing out of Bugzilla (since Bugzilla no longer receives regular updates), it's increasingly difficult to second guess what dependencies a patch may require from other ZCS non-mailbox nodes, if any.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the repo based distribution of Zimbra upgrades/patches is still pretty new yet, I think it's important that we all work together to iron out some of the early wrinkles that are likely to exist in the system. Hopefully Zimbra will update the install instructions in the release notes for this patch & others in the future, based on the feedback of the community on this mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><span name="x"></span><div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br>Randy Leiker (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">randy@skywaynetworks.com</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">)</span></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Skyway Networks, LLC</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">1.800.538.5334</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">/</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">913.663.3900 Ext. 100</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><a href="http://www.skywaynetworks.com">https://www.skywaynetworks.com</a><br></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Tony Publiski" <tonster@tonster.com><br><b>To: </b>"Randy Leiker" <randy@skywaynetworks.com>, users@lists.zetalliance.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 12, 2018 6:09:38 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Users] Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 release<br><br><style><!----></style><style id="css_styles"><!--blockquote.cite { margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right:0px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc }
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<div>From: "Randy Leiker" <<a href="mailto:randy@skywaynetworks.com" target="_blank">randy@skywaynetworks.com</a>></div>
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<div>Subject: [Users] Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 release</div><div><br></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">Hi Everyone,</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">Today Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 was released as GA: <a href="https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1" target="_blank">https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">One of the bug fixes included (35115) helps with the Zimbra High Availability open source project I've been working on developing. I'll be publishing the initial reference designs for that project very soon on its own web site. In the meantime, I deployed 8.8.8 patch 1 to begin testing in my lab environment which is running CentOS 7, with ZCS 8.8.8. The install instructions as written in the release notes for Red Hat/CentOS servers (<a href="https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1#Install_the_Patch" target="_blank">https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1#Install_the_Patch</a>) work fine if you're running a single server install of ZCS. But, if you're running a multi-node install of ZCS, the patch install instructions in the release notes are inaccurate.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">In my lab environment, I have the following ZCS nodes provisioned:</font></div><div><ul><li><font size="2">2 x LDAP MMR nodes</font></li><li><font size="2">2 x MTA nodes</font></li><li><font size="2">2 x Proxy nodes</font></li><li><font size="2">2 x Mailbox nodes</font></li></ul><div><font size="2">If you attempt to follow the install instructions for the patch with a similar ZCS multi-node environment as noted above, you'll see a dependency failure in Yum that will prevent the patch from installing:</font></div></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><div>Error: Package: zimbra-patch-8.8.8.1.1522961836-1.r7.x86_64 (zimbra-888-patch)</div><div> Requires: zimbra-store >= 8.8.8</div><div> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem</div><div> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest</div><div><br></div></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">This occurs because the zimbra-store package isn't installed on all of the ZCS nodes. I</font><span style="font-size: small;">nstead, what you'll need to do is on your LDAP, MTA, and Proxy nodes, or essentially any ZCS node where the zimbra-store package is NOT installed, simply run these commands:</span></div><div><ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">As the root user:</font></li><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li><font size="2">yum upgrade (upgrades the zimbra-common-core-jar package)</font></li></ul><li><font size="2">As the zimbra user:</font></li><ul><li><font size="2">zmcontrol restart</font></li></ul></ul></div><div><font size="2">Then, on your ZCS mailbox nodes (where the zimbra-store package is installed), follow the install instructions as written in the 8.8.8 Patch 1 release notes.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">When you get to the section in the release notes that advises running:</font></div><div><ul><li><font size="2">yum install zimbra-network-modules-ng</font></li><li><font size="2">yum install zimbra-chat OR yum install zimbra-talk</font></li></ul></div><div><font size="2">If you've already upgraded to 8.8.8, which would of course be the case if you're trying to install patch 1, the 8.8.8 install process uninstalls the zimbra-chat package & replaces it with zimbra-talk, so you only need to run:</font></div><ul><li><font size="2">As the root user:</font></li><ul><li><font size="2">yum install zimbra-network-modules-ng</font></li><li><font size="2">yum install zimbra-talk</font></li></ul><li><font size="2">As the zimbra user:</font></li><ul><li><font size="2">zmmailboxdctl restart</font></li></ul></ul><div><font size="2">Otherwise, all of the ZCS services appeared to start successfully following the install of Patch 1. </font><span style="font-size: small;">I wasn't able to test it within my Zimbra lab environment, but I suspect the Ubuntu install instructions in the release notes need a similar clarification for multi-node ZCS installs.</span></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span></span><div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br>Randy Leiker (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:randy@skywaynetworks.com" target="_blank">randy@skywaynetworks.com</a></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">)</span></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Skyway Networks, LLC</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">1.800.538.5334</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">/</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">913.663.3900 Ext. 100</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><a href="http://www.skywaynetworks.com" target="_blank">https://www.skywaynetworks.com</a><br></div></div></div><span></span><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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