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Chapter 5 Upgrading and Migrating to Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine 4.1
Upgrade Procedure
The download utility starts. You are prompted to enter the hostname of IP address of the appliance,
as shown in
Figure 5-6
.
c.
Enter the hostname or the IP address of the distribution server and then click
Install
.
The ACS web interface starts.
d.
Log in to the web interface.
e.
Choose
System Configuration
>
Appliance Upgrade Status
.
The Appliance Upgrade page opens, as shown in
Figure 5-7
.
f.
Download and install the software upgrade.
The steps for downloading and installing the software upgrade package are the same as the steps for
installing the management software as described in
Step 5
.
Note
If you complete the upgrade and the ACS console displays the message
Appliance upgrade in
progress
, this indicates that the upgrade progress is hanging.
If this condition occurs, start an ACS console session and enter the command
download
[
hostAddress
]
, where
hostAddress
can be any IP address. This action releases the ACS
console from the upgrade process.
Step 7
Download and install the MS Hotfixes package.
a.
Go to the /
Upgrade package MS Hotfixes for ACS 4.0 to 4.1
folder on the upgrade CD. (
verify folder
b.
Double-click the
autorun.bat
icon.
The download utility starts. You are prompted to enter the hostname of IP address of the appliance,
as shown in
Figure 5-1
.
c.
Enter the hostname or the IP address of the distribution server and then click
Install
.
The ACS web interface starts.
d.
Log in to the web interface.
e.
Choose
System Configuration
>
Appliance Upgrade Status
.
The Appliance Upgrade page opens, as shown in
Figure 5-7
.
f.
Download and install the MS Hotfixes.
The steps for downloading and installing the MS Hotfixes package are the same as the steps for
installing the management software as described in
Step 5
.
g.
Follow the prompts that the upgrade program displays to install the upgrade.
Step 8
Back up the upgraded ACS SE data and configuration.
To upgrade the ACS SE appliance to the latest Microsoft hotfixes, you must reimage the ACS SE device.
Because reimaging destroys all of the existing data on the device, you must first back up your existing
data and then restore it by using one of the following features:
•
ACS Backup, which is available in the System Configuration section of the web interface. For more
information, see the
User Guide for Cisco Secure ACS 4.1
.
•
The CLI
backup
command, which you enter from the serial console. For more information, see
Backing Up ACS Data From the Serial Console, page 4-12
.
