Pre-release steps

1. [V] Download the installation RPM nexus-2.3.1-2.el5.rpm .

Release steps

1. [V] set up the outage page redirect for the web interface and service unavailable for the repositories. 10.34.2.144 should be an exception.
2. [V] Wait till the sheduled disk backup is complete
3. [V] Turn off puppet
4. [V] Remove nexus-central-stat-plugin-1.2.0 and nexus-gtc-base-plugin-1.1.2-SNAPSHOT directories in sonatype-work directory
5. [V] Install the RPM
6. [V] Check, if /services/nexus/nexus-professional-2.3.1/bin/nexus has following line:\\RUN_AS_USER=jetty
   
7. [V] Check /services/nexus/nexus-professional-2.3.1/cong/nexus.properties . Eloqua URL must be http://www.stage.redhat.com on staging, while http://www.redhat.com on production
8. [V] Start the Nexus service
9. [V,H] check the nexus-gc.log for errors
10. [H] Check login using URL realm
11. [H] Check the branding logo
12. [H] Check Eloqua tracking plugin
13. [V] remove the redirect to the maintenance page

Rollback

1. [V] stop the new version of nexus
2. [V] ask IT to revert the disk to the last backup
3. [V] start Nexus service
4. [H] check the functionality
5. [V] remove the redirect to the maintenance page