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Commit d7dd51c4 authored by Jan Mach's avatar Jan Mach
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Improved documentation based on the feedback from CTI project migrating their Mentat instance.

(Redmine issue: #3361)
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Installation guide - Ansible roles
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.. note::
Please do not use Ansible roles for installation during migration from previous
stable version of Mentat based on Perl and MongoDB. Some of the configuration
files changed and you may encounter weird errors in case original configuration
stays active. Part of the migration process is assessing changes in configuration
files and this process is not automated and needs to be done by hand.
If you are fond of `Ansible <https://www.ansible.com/>`__, there is great news
for you: we have prepared `Ansible <https://www.ansible.com/>`__ roles to make
the installation as simple as possible. These roles are available via official
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# Step 0: Reconfigure Mentat system by comparing old and new configuration files.
# This should be done manually, because most of the modules have new
# configuration options and you should consider tweaking some of them.
# This step is really important, you may encounter weird errors in case
# some outdated configuration stays active, especially in following files:
# - mentat-backup.py.conf
# - mentat-cleanup.py.conf
# - mentat-controller.py.conf
# - mentat-dbmngr.py.conf
# - mentat-netmngr.py.conf
# - mentat-reporter.py.conf
# - mentat-statistician.py.conf
# Step 1: Migrate system metadata tables (users, groups, reports, statistics, etc.).
/etc/mentat/scripts/sqldb-migrate-data.py
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