Maintenance Tasks

CAUTION

Software upgrades require a reboot to take effect. Rebooting the PEP interrupts data traffic for approximately two minutes. During this time all packets are discarded.

To upgrade software on the PEPs:

1From the EncrypTight Enforcement Point CD for the PEPs that you want to upgrade, copy the folder for your appliance model to your default FTP directory.

For example, if you are upgrading ETEP PEPs, copy the ETEP folder to your FTP directory.

2In the Appliance Manager, select the PEPs to upgrade. If you are managing the PEPs in-line, upgrade the remote site PEPs first before upgrading the data center PEP, as shown in Figure 19.

3On the Tools menu, click Upgrade Software.

4Enter the FTP server site information for the upgrade software, as described in Table 18. Do not use the following special characters in the FTP user name and password: @ : ? # < > &.

Optional. Click Verify to confirm that the site is reachable. If it is not, ETEMS displays a message indicating the nature of the problem.

ETEP PEPs automatically back up the file system prior to upgrading. If you experience a problem with an upgrade, you can then restore the PEP’s file system from the backup copy.

5Select the Reboot after upgrade check box to automatically reboot the PEPs immediately following a successful upgrade. To reboot at a later time, clear the check box.

6Click Upgrade. Upgrade results for each appliance are displayed in the Result column of the Upgrade Appliances table.

7Upgrading the software version on the appliance does not automatically update the ETEMS configuration. After the appliances have been rebooted, you can edit the ETEMS configurations to reflect the new software version running on the appliances (Edit > Multiple Configurations > Software Version).

Table 18 FTP server site information for appliance software upgrades

Field

Description

Host

IP address of the management workstation running the FTP server software.

 

If you are retrieving log files from a host that has already been configured,

 

you can select its IP address from the Host box. ETEMS completes the

 

remaining FTP server information for you based on the selected host IP

 

address.

 

ETEP 1.6 and later appliances support IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. If you are

 

using an IPv6 host address, all of the selected appliances must support

 

IPv6.

Path

The directory on the FTP server that contains the files of interest. Valid

 

entries are the default FTP directory and its subdirectories. Enter the

 

directory listing relative to the default directory. If the files are located in the

 

default directory, leave this field blank.

User

User ID of a user on the FTP server. Do not use the following characters: @

 

: ? # < > &

Password

Password associated with the user name. Do not use the following

 

characters: @ : ? # < > &

Connection Method

FTP is the default file transfer protocol and is supported on all appliance

 

models and software revisions.

 

SFTP provides secure file transfer. It is supported on ETEP appliances

 

running version 1.6 and later software.

 

 

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Black Box ET0100A, ET1000A, ET0010A, EncrypTight To upgrade software on the PEPs, On the Tools menu, click Upgrade Software
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