Upgrades

P4 DAM is built on top of Perforce TeamHub. To install P4 DAM, you use the Perforce TeamHub packages.

P4 DAM is shipped as a native operating system package, like .rpm or .deb, which greatly simplifies upgrades.

Upgrading P4 DAM is usually a zero-downtime operation and can be performed on a live system. Before upgrading, read the release notes for more information on any release specific upgrade instructions.

Upgrade P4 Search

Make sure the version of P4 Search you upgrade to is supported by the version of P4 DAM you are upgrading to, see P4 authentication prerequisites.

The P4 Search index structure changed to improve indexing speeds in P4 Search 2024.3. If you are upgrading from P4 Search 2024.2 or earlier, P4 Search will automatically migrate your index structure to the new one introduced in P4 Search 2024.3. While the migration is happening, the Elasticsearch Hosts service status will display In Progress on the P4 SearchService Status page, see View status. When the migration is complete, the Elasticsearch Hosts service status will change to Success. The time taken for the migration depends on the size of your index, it can be as short as a few minutes for a small index and hours for a larger index.

For P4 Search upgrade instructions, see Upgrading P4 Search in the P4 Search Documentation.

Upgrade P4 DAM

Download the TeamHub packages specific to the host operating system from Perforce's package repositories. After uploading the packages to the server, follow the commands below.

Alternatively, use the Perforce's package repositories directly to upgrade the packages instead of using the rpm -Uvh or dpkg -i commands below.

Standard

RHEL and CentOS upgrades

rpm -Uvh hth-X.X.X-stable.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo hth-ctl reconfigure

Ubuntu

dpkg -i hth_X.X.X_amd64.deb
sudo hth-ctl reconfigure

Enterprise

When updating the Enterprise deployment type, the package install order (Web or DB) does not matter, as long as they are the same major version. Refer to the release notes for more information on the package install order.

Perforce TeamHub DB

Upload the hth-db package to the server designated for Database role and update the package:

RHEL and CentOS 

rpm -Uvh hth-db-X.X.X-stable.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo hth-ctl reconfigure

Ubuntu 

dpkg -i hth-db_X.X.X_amd64.deb
sudo hth-ctl reconfigure

Perforce TeamHub and P4 DAM Web

Upload the hth-web package to the server designated for Web application role and install the package:

RHEL and CentOS

rpm -Uvh hth-web-X.X.X-stable.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo hth-ctl reconfigure

Ubuntu

dpkg -i hth-web_X.X.X_amd64.deb
sudo hth-ctl reconfigure