JBoss ON apply-updates reports successful patch even if jboss-cli commands fail

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) 3.3 Update 11 and earlier
• Running apply-updates command from JBoss ON Server Update archive

Issue

• Incorrectly informed patch applied successfully even when some jboss-cli commands fail

• update.log includes the folowing error messages even though apply-updates reported success:

    Unable to apply patch as [Server/cli interface] component(s) not yet running. Retrying...
  

Resolution

Beginning in JBoss ON 3.3 Update 12, the apply-updates command will now report a warning if any of the jboss-cli commands fail during the upgrade process.

Root Cause

Applying maintenance updates to a JBoss ON server may require changes to the underlying JBoss application server's configuration. In such cases the jboss-cli command is invoked to perform various configuration updates or checks. However, if these commands fail, the apply-updates command fails to inform the user of these failures. This could potentially leave the underlying application server's configuration in an inconsistent state with the expected maintenance update.

This issue was identified in This content is not included.Red Hat Bug 1636916.

Diagnostic Steps

• After running apply-updates review the update log for the following output:

    Unable to apply patch as [Server/cli interface] component(s) not yet running. Retrying...
  

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