IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager, Version 2.0.2

Managing the firmware settings

The IBM® Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance has two partitions with separate firmware on each partition. Partitions are swapped during firmware updates so that you can roll back the firmware updates.

About this task

Either partition can be active on the virtual appliance. In the factory-installed state, partition 1 is active and contains the firmware version of the currently released product. When you apply a firmware update, the update is installed on partition 2, and your policies and settings are copied from partition 1 to partition 2. The virtual appliance restarts the system by using partition 2, which is now the active partition.

Note: The virtual appliance comes with identical firmware versions installed on both of the partitions so that you have a backup of the initial firmware configuration.

Tip: Avoid swapping partitions to restore configuration and policy settings. Use snapshots to back up and restore configuration and policy settings.

Procedure

From the top-level menu of the Appliance Dashboard, click Manage > Updates and Licensing > Firmware Settings.

On the Firmware Settings page, do one or more of the following actions.

Option	Description
Edit	Select the partition and click Edit to revise the partition comment.
Create Backup	Important: Create a backup of your firmware only when you are installing a fix pack from IBM Customer Support. Fix packs are installed on the active partition, and you might not be able to uninstall the fix pack. Note: The backup process can take several minutes to complete.
Set Active	Set a partition to active when you want to use the firmware that is installed on that partition. For example, you might want to set a partition to active to use firmware that does not contain a recently applied update or fix pack.

Click Yes. If you set a partition to active, the virtual appliance restarts the system from the newly activated partition.

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