Portal Upgrades (Linux): Tomcat and Apache > Upgrading from Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8 (Linux)
  
Version 10.3.00P13
Upgrading from Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8 (Linux)
1. Contact Veritas Support for instructions on how to retrieve the distribution files used in these instructions.
As user root, execute the following steps.
2. Untar the Tomcat binary distribution into: /opt
cd /opt
gtar -zxvf <path to file>/apache-tomcat-8.5.xx.tar.gz
3. Run the switchtomcat.sh shell script.
sh /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.xx/bin/switchtomcat.sh
4. Verify you can login to the Portal.