Using and Upgrading Report Server on Docker

This topic describes how to pull a Report Server docker image and access Report Server, as well as run, upgrade, and remove a Report Server container.

For information about environment variables that you can configure when you run containers from a Server Docker image, see Environment Variable Configuration for Docker.

This topic contains the following sections:

Pulling a Server Docker Image and Accessing Server in Windows
Upgrading a Server Container
Stopping and Removing a Server Container

Pulling a Server Docker Image and Accessing Server in Windows

To use a Server docker image, you must have the associated license key of the Server version. For more product information, including new purchases and upgrades, contact US Sales or UK Sales.

Download and install the latest version of Docker from this site: Docker download.
Start Docker Desktop.
Open the Command Prompt.
Pull a Report Server docker image from Docker Hub.
```
docker pull logianalytics/logireport-server[:image_tag]
```
To pull the Server image "latest", you can specify a simpler command line instead.
```
docker pull logianalytics/logireport-server
```
You can see all available image tags for Report Server starting from v15.5 to the latest release in the Docker Hub. For each Server version, you may find its docker images based on Oracle JDK 8, 11, or 17. From an image tag name you can figure out the Server version (18.2.2 or 18.2-sp2 means v18.2 Service Pack 2), the date and time when the Server version was released (B202112240214 means Nov. 22, 2021 02:14), or the JDK version that the Server uses (18.2.2-jdk11 uses JDK 11). When a line contains more than one tag name, they all point to the same Server image.

Start the Server container.

docker run -itd -p 8888:8888/tcp --name logireport_server logianalytics/logireport-server[:image_tag]

You can inspect the startup status of the container.
```
docker logs -f logireport_server
```
Access the Server instance locally via http://localhost:8888/.
Type your user ID and license key for Server.
Select Submit. Server displays the license information.
Access http://localhost:8888/ again.
Type your username and password to sign on to Server.
If you want to view Server information in the container, manually stop/restart Server, clear Server logs, or manually configure Server property files LogConfig.properties/server.properties, make the running Server container work as standalone installed server.
```
docker exec -it -w /opt/LogiReport/Server logireport_server bash
```

Upgrading a Server Container

Backup your data in the Server container.

# Stop server processes of the previous version in the server container (Suppose that report_server is the container name)
docker exec report_server /opt/LogiReport/Server/bin/stopServer.sh

# Backup the previous version
docker exec -w /opt/LogiReport/Server/bin report_server bash -xc '
./DBMaintain.sh -Bsystemtables:systemtables.dat
./DBMaintain.sh -B0realmtables:realmtables.dat
./DBMaintain.sh -Bprofiling:profiling.dat'
docker cp report_server:/opt/LogiReport/Server ./Server_old_version

Run the new version of the server container:

# Create a new version container.
docker create --name new_server -v /opt/LogiReport/Server logianalytics/logireport-server[:image_tag]

# Copy the new server content.
docker run --rm --volumes-from new_server -v `pwd`:/tmp/workspace ubuntu cp -rp /opt/LogiReport/Server /tmp/workspace/Server_new

# Upgrade the server container.
sudo rm Server_new/bin/{jslc.dat,setenv.sh}
for i in `ls -A Server_new/bin/*.{properties,xml}|grep -Ev '(content-type|servlet|LogConfig|mapping).properties|makewar.xml'`
do sudo rm -f $i
done
docker cp Server_old_version/bin/systemtables.dat report_server:/tmp
docker cp Server_old_version/bin/realmtables.dat report_server:/tmp
docker cp Server_old_version/bin/profiling.dat report_server:/tmp
docker cp Server_new report_server:/opt/LogiReport
docker exec -w /opt/LogiReport/Server_new report_server bash -c 'cp -rpf ./* ../Server/'
docker exec -w /opt/LogiReport report_server rm -rf Server_new
docker exec -w /opt/LogiReport/Server/bin report_server bash -xc '
./DBMaintain.sh -Rsystemtables:systemtables.dat
./DBMaintain.sh -R0realmtables:realmtables.dat
./DBMaintain.sh -Rprofiling:profiling.dat'

# Restart the upgraded container.
docker restart report_server

# Remove the created new_server container which is for temporary use.
docker rm -v new_server
sudo rm -rf Server_new

Stopping and Removing a Server Container

You should stop and remove the Server container once you are done.

Stop the Server container:

docker stop logireport_server

Remove the Server container from your computer:

docker rm -v logireport_server

Remove the Server image:

logianalytics/logireport-server[:image_tag]

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