Before Opening
- Before Opening a Clustering Ticket
 - Before Opening a Document Library Ticket
 - Before Opening a LAR/Staging Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay API Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Performance Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Sync Ticket
 - Before Opening an Accessibility Ticket
 - Before Opening an Activation Key Ticket
 - Before Opening an Authentication Ticket
 - Before Opening an Upgrade Ticket
 - Before Opening a Portal Deployment Ticket
 - Before Opening a Search/Indexing ticket
 - Before Opening a Security Ticket
 - Before Opening a Shutdown/Inoperable System Ticket
 - Before opening a ticket related to VPN on Liferay PaaS
 - Before Opening a User Interface (UI) Ticket
 - Before Opening a Web Content Management Ticket
 
Before Opening an Upgrade Ticket
The following article outlines a short checklist of questions to ask and steps to take before opening an upgrade ticket. By taking a moment to go through this checklist before opening a request, you are ensuring the fastest possible resolution for your particular issue.
Resolution
For each ticket, please attach your portal-ext.properties file as well as the output of the patching-tool info command specific to the environment.
For upgrade tickets specifically, please work through the following checklist and include the resulting information when you create a ticket:
- For ease, upgrade should be conducted with a Liferay provided bundle. This is to reduce the resources needed to upgrade if the existing app server is resource-heavy.
 - If performing an upgrade, the upgraded should first be conducted in lower environments, starting with Dev/QA. Upgrades need to be tested before moving into Production.
 - The Portal upgrade should be out of the box (OOTB) and should not include any customizations.
 - Have you followed our Upgrade Instructions and Upgrading to Permission Algorithm 6: Best practices?
 - In case of an upgrade failure, everything needs to be reverted back to the previous point.
 - Have you installed the latest core fix packs and upgrade fix pack (if available)?
 - If you have already attempted the upgrade please provide us with 
                
- Complete old 
portal-ext.properties - Complete new 
portal-ext.properties - Patching-tool output from the old server if available
 - Patching-tool output from the new server
 - A copy of the pre-upgrade database (FTP)
 - A copy of your data folder and image gallery if in a different location (FTP)
 - A copy of any exceptions generated during the process
 - A copy of the full logs generated during the upgrade 
                  
- This log should include the update processes
 
 
 - Complete old 
 
Additional Information
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