Upgrading FortiPresence VM
This section describes the upgrade to the latest version of FortiPresence VM.
Notes:
- Upgrade Infrastructure services before Application services.
- Both Infrastructure and Application servers should have the same version.
- Pre-upgrade version specific tars must be available on both the servers.
- Use release specific CLI scripts for upgrade.
- Logs are generated on the Application server when an upgrade is unsuccessful. You can share this with Customer Support teams if required.
- The system is reverted to the pre-upgrade version if the upgrade is unsuccessful.
Perform these steps to upgrade the Infrastructure and application services,
- Download these files from the Fortinet Support portal.
Infrastructure server: FPVM-infra-x.x.x-buildXXXX and FPVM-cli-x.x.x-buildxxxx
Application server: FPVM-apps-x.x.xbuildxxx and FPVM-cli-x.x.x-buildxxxx - Login as presence user and copy the downloaded files to the VM servers. Use the following commands.
sftp username@<SFTP_server_IP>:<filename.tar>
ORscp username@<SCP_server_IP>:<filename.tar> /presence
- Extract the latest CLI script on the Infrastructure server (as presence user).
tar –xzf FPVM-cli-x.x.x-buildxxx presence-infra - Run the
presence-infra –-upgradecommand on the Infrastructure server to upgrade the services and follow the instructions.
After successful upgrade of the Infrastructure services, upgrade the Application services.
- Extract the latest CLI script on the Application server (as presence user).
tar –xzf FPVM-cli-X.X.X-buildXXXX presence-apps - Run the
presence-apps –-upgradecommand on the Application server to upgrade the services and follow the instructions. - After successful upgrade, login into FortiPresence VM to use the services.
Note: After successful upgrade, retain the tars of the latest version and delete the tars of older versions.