Upgrading A Local Controller From The Global Controller - Cisco MARS Install And Setup Manual

Chapter 6 Administering the MARS Appliance
Result: A progress bar indicates the download percentage. After download is complete, the system takes
some time to process the upgrade. After the upgrade is complete, the system reboots.

Upgrading a Local Controller from the Global Controller

When upgrading a Local Controller from within the Global Controller user interface, you need to
determine whether the Local Controller resides behind a proxy server. If so, you must configure the
proxy settings for the Local Controller within the Global Controller user interface. After you have
specified the settings, you can upgrade the Local Controller as you normally would.
If Local Controller proxy information is not provided and you attempt to download an upgrade for that
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appliance, the Local Controller attempts to connect to Internal Upgrade Server and fails after a period
of time.
When you upgrade a Global Controller and its monitored Local Controllers, you first upgrade
Global Controller, which requires that you identify the Internal Upgrade Server information. The
Global Controller then pushes this server information to all its selected Local Controllers, which allows
the Local Controller to locate the Internal Upgrade Server and start the download and upgrade process.
The Local Controller does not retrieve the upgrade package from the Global Controller.
Before You Begin
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If you upgrade a Global Controller/Local Controller pair, the Local Controller may appear offline for the
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first 10 minutes after the appliances reboot. The scheduler wakes up and re-syncs 10 minutes after
startup.
If you notice that the Local Controller appears offline, verify that at least 10 minutes have passed since
the appliances rebooted. Alternatively, you can jump start the communication by navigating to Admin >
Local Controller Management in the Global Controller user interface.
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proxyUser proxyPassword
to authenticate to the proxy server.
• upgrade.myttpserver.com/upgrade/packages is the server name and path where you have
downloaded the *.pkg file.
• ver is the version number, such as 3.3.4.
• [user] and [password] are your Internal Upgrade Server login name and password.
This procedure is valid for versions 3.4.1 and later.
Verify that each Local Controller is running the same software version that the Global Controller
was running before its upgrade. Target Local Controllers must be running the prerequisite software
version that the Global Controller was running before its upgrade.
Checklist for Upgrading the Appliance Software
identifies the username and password pair required for the appliance
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