I’m looking at upgrading my install of ignition over the upcoming weekend. My install is on a VM, and I can spin up a second VM for testing and/or upgrade target if needed. I was considering rebuilding the VM anyway to update the OS (ubuntu right now, 14.04.6, so it’s a little behind the times.)
I’m looking for guidance on whether it’s best upgrade a running 7.9 server to 8.0, or if it’s best to install a blank 8.0 server and restore a 7.9 backup. I’m not sure if there is a functional difference. I suppose I could even install 7.9.6 on a fresh VM, restore a gateway backup then upgrade that to 8.0.12 if upgrading is the preferred path.
I don’t think I’ll be able to run both instances at once. I have some devices behind a serial gateway (not modbus gateway, actual serial gateway) that I think will not behave properly if two hosts start trying to request data. Other devices are more modern modbus gateways that I think would be able to keep conversations sorted between multiple hosts. Over the weekend, I’ll have a chance to stop the old gateway and test out version 8 in some fashion. Either snapshot the VM and do an in-place upgrade, or enable comms on a separate VM. Hopefully I’ll have time to sort any issues that pop up before production resumes.
Well, I spun up a new VM, installed the latest stable ignition version, got the gateway up and running, and tried to restore a gateway backup from my old server (downloaded today, the old server is still running). My v8 ignition gateway is now faulted
Looks like the relevant line in the wrapper.log file is:
INFO | jvm 2 | 2020/05/23 19:25:52 | simpleorm.utils.SException$Validation: Param too long (>-1) for field [F TagEventScriptRecord.Script] and value
After that, the wrapper has the contents of a fairly long tag change script that I use to talk to some old process controllers that don’t support modbus. They are also critical controllers, so I’ll still need to talk to them. I do have a fair amount of comments in the tag change scripts.
What is the limit on the size? I might be able to pare it down by removing the comments, but if I need to restructure, that will take a little more thinking. It’d be nice to have a target to shoot for instead of try, fail, repeat.
If someone at IA would like to have look at a copy of the backup, I can provide it.