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Upgrade Process for Provider Connectivity Assurance Essentials

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This article explains ow to perform the upgrade process for Provider Connectivity Assurance Essentials. This upgrade process is intended ONLY for minor version updates. For Essentials, the last digits of the version will indicate the minor version number. For example, 14.166.14 and 14.166.23 are the same major version but different minor versions.

To Perform the Upgrade

  1. Sign in as admin user
  2. Run the following command:
sudo su – admin
  1. Change to the skylight-installer directory.
cd skylight-installer/
  1. Enable SSH access to all relevant hosts.
eval $(ssh-agent); ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  1. Only needed if your Vault is sealed; unseal vault using your deployment root key:
/home/admin/skylight-installer/bin/vaultCmd.sh operator unseal
  1. Execute the update.
bin/onprem-deploy.sh $SKYLIGHT_VERSION variables.lite.env inventory

It is not necessary to shutdown the solution as the deployment script will manage this.

During this step, the deploy script will download the updated files for the upgrade process and then will proceed to update the application.

Validate the Correct Version is Installed

Once the update is completed, please validate the correct version is now installed.

  1. Run the following command:
/etc/aod/solution.sh version aod

It is also a good practice to verify all services are up and running.

Verify Services are Running

  1. Run the following command:
watch “docker service ls | grep 0/1”

Once all services are up, you can verify access through the Web GUI.

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