Updating the Elastic Search Plugins after applying the WebCenter Portal bundle patch fails with Error: Please specify ELASTIC_SEARCH_HOME_DIR_PARENT (Doc ID 2677720.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 01, 2022

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Symptoms

Updating the Elastic Search Plugins after applying the WebCenter Portal bundle patch 12.2.1.4.200408 fails with the following error:

ERROR


Error: Please specify ELASTIC_SEARCH_HOME_DIR_PARENT.



STEPS

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Make a backup of this file:
   [MW_HOME]/wcportal/es/installES.properties
   
   e.g.:
   cp installES.properties installES.properties_pre_patch
   
   
   
2. Install the latest WebCenter Portal bundle patch.
   
   
3. Replace the installES.properties with the one from the backup.
   e.g.:
   
   cp installES.properties_pre_patch installES.properties
   
   
4. Run this command: to update the Elastic Search Plugins:
   
   $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh updateESPlugins.py installES.properties
   
   Here you will get the error.
   
   

Changes

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