Routine Maintenance

Helpful Tasks

Stopping and Starting the Application

Stopping Avantra Server

If you have integrated the Avantra Server with systemd as described in Integration with Systemd:

sudo systemctl stop avantra-ui && sudo systemctl stop avantra-master

Otherwise:

/opt/avantra/xangui/rc.xangui stop && /opt/avantra/master/rc.master stop

Starting Avantra Server

If you have integrated the Avantra Server with systemd as described in Integration with Systemd:

sudo systemctl start avantra-master && sudo systemctl start avantra-ui

Otherwise:

/opt/avantra/master/rc.master start && /opt/avantra/xangui/rc.xangui start

Product Updates

The upgrade of the Avantra Server is described in Upgrading Server Components.

For the upgrade of the PostgreSQL database cluster, see Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster. See Supported Platforms: Databases for a list of supported versions.

Usually, the package manager of your Linux distribution will care about minor updates of the PostgreSQL database cluster.