Upgrading to newer versions of Guardium Insights
Upgrade Guardium Insights to the next major version.
Before you begin
- Prepare to patch or upgrade Guardium Insights.
- Ensure that your environment meets the System requirements and prerequisites and Hardware cluster requirements.
- Back up your current version of Guardium Insights.
- Ensure that your SSH session stays active during the upgrade.
- Obtain your entitlement key. For more information, see Obtain your entitlement key.
- Export the following environment variables:
- Version 3.3.x
export ICS_USER=ICS user for cloudctl login (usually "admin")
- Version 3.3.x
export ICS_PASS=ICS user password for cloudctl login
export NAMESPACE=Your Guardium Insights namespace
export CP_REPO_USER=cp
export CP_REPO_PASS=password for cp user
For the entitlement key, see Container Software and Cloud Pak Access Management (https://myibm.ibm.com/products-services/containerlibrary).
export CASE_ARCHIVE=ibm-guardium-insights-2.4.0.tgz
- Version 3.3.x
export CASE_ARCHIVE=ibm-guardium-insights-2.3.0.tgz
export LOCAL_CASE_DIR=the directory where the case file is downloaded
- Version 3.4.x and later
LOCAL_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/guardium-insights
- Version 3.4.x and later
mkdir $LOCAL_INSTALL_DIR
- Version 3.3.x