Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.1.2)

Performing automatic or manual agent updates

You can set up automatic updates so that the agent can update to the latest version (1.2) once the AMS has been updated. By default, this option is disabled. Agents with appliance software version 3.1.1 can be updated.

Before starting this procedure, you must have the required management update package and add it to the Repository on the AMS. This is required for the automatic updates to work.

To configure automatic agent updates

  1. Log on to the Appliance Management Console.
  2. Click Settings and then click Auto-update agents.
  3. You can toggle the Auto-update agents slider and enable automatic updates. Enabling this feature means that each agent updates automatically over the next 24 hours. The agents are updated over the next 24 hours so it may take some time to display the updated agent version on the Home page. You can also click Monitor > Activity Monitor to view the AMA update task details for each appliance.

If you wish to disable automatic updates, you must update each agent manually to match the AMS version. You must download the required management update package from the Veritas Support website and add it to the Repository, then use the following procedure.

To update agent manually

  1. Log on to the Appliance Management Console.
  2. Click the agent hostname on the Home page.
  3. On the Overview page, click Update.

    You can also click Monitor > Activity Monitor to view the AMA update task details for each appliance. You can view the updated agent version from the AMS/Agent version column on the Home page.

  4. Repeat this procedure for all the agents that use the AMS.