Checking for updates and updating¶
To check for availability of a new installation archive, do the following:
Updating the server can be done with the following commands:To start the update you will need to confirm stopping the server.
If a new installation archive is available, it is downloaded to the /tmp directory and the update of the server is then started using install.sh -silent.
After the update completes, an update message is shown and the server is started.
When updating WCS to builds 5.2.801-5.2.864, it is necessary to stop WCS manually after update to launch WCS as service:
Since build 5.2.871, WCS is automatically relaunched as service after update.
Free disk space checking before update¶
Since build 5.2.1981 a free disk space available is checked before update. If the free space is less then 1 Gb, the istallation process will be stopped without any changes, and the following message will be displayed
A timeout for update checking and downloading¶
Since build 5.2.1981 it is possible to set a maximum timeout in seconds for update checking and downloading operations
sudo ./webcallserver check_update --update-timeout 10
sudo ./webcallserver update --update-timeout 10
The default timeout is 10 seconds.