Upgrading V-Series Appliances
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Upgrading V-Series Appliances
1. Make sure Policy Broker and Policy Server are upgraded to the version you want
and that the services are running. Other TRITON components installed on the
Policy Broker and Policy Server machine are upgraded at the same time. Use the
version 8.3.x TRITON Unified Installer to upgrade the Policy Broker machine.
See
Upgrading Web Protection Solutions
for instructions.
2. Upgrade all
User directory and filtering
appliances. Each time the upgrade
completes on an appliance, the appliance automatically restarts.
3. Upgrade all
Filtering only
appliances.
4. Use the version 8.3.x Forcepoint installer to upgrade remaining off-appliance
components. See
Upgrading Web Protection Solutions
for instructions.
If the Full policy source appliance is down or unavailable
Best practice is to upgrade the
Full policy source
appliance first, then the
User
directory and filtering
, then
Filtering only
appliances, and finally the off-appliance
TRITON components.
However, if your site must upgrade a
User directory and filtering
or
Filtering only
appliance before the
Full policy source
appliance, or if your
Full policy source
appliance is unavailable, is being replaced, or is being re-imaged, then set a
User
directory and filtering
or
Filtering only
appliance (temporarily) to be the
Full policy
source
. To do this:
1. Create a full backup of the appliance in case changing the policy source fails.
2. On the secondary appliance, in the V-Series manager, navigate to
Configuration > Web Security Components
.
3. For
Policy Source
, select
Full policy source
. Save the setting.
4. Upgrade this appliance to the version you want. The appliance automatically
restarts when the upgrade finishes.
After the original
Full policy source
appliance has been upgraded, replaced, or
re-imaged, change the upgraded temporary
Full policy source
machine to point to the
original
Full policy source
again for its policy information. To do this:
1. Upgrade the primary appliance. When the upgrade is done, the appliance
automatically restarts.
2. On the previously upgraded secondary appliance, in the CLI enter
config
mode
and change the policy mode:
set mode <user|filter> --policy-source <policy_src_ip_addr>
3. Use the version 8.3.x TRITON installer to upgrade remaining off-appliance
components. See
Upgrading Web Protection Solutions
for instructions.
To see all upgrade instructions go to
Upgrading V-Series appliances from v7.8.4,
