67.2. Upgrading Manager and Agents #

  1. Wait for all routine tasks running in PPEM to complete (see active tasks in the task console).

  2. On every server with the PPEM agent installed, stop the agent service:

    systemctl stop ppem-agent
    
  3. On every server with the PPEM manager installed:

    1. Stop the manager service:

      systemctl stop ppem
      
    2. Refresh the repository and package metadata used by the package manager installed on the server.

    3. Upgrade the ppem and ppem-gui manager packages using the package manager.

    4. Update the /etc/ppem-manager.yml manager configuration file, if necessary.

    5. Start the manager service:

      systemctl start ppem
      
    6. Ensure that the service started successfully and is available:

      systemctl status ppem
      
  4. On every server with the PPEM agent installed:

    1. Refresh the repository and package metadata used by the package manager installed on the server.

    2. Upgrade the ppem-agent PPEM agent package using the package manager.

    3. Update the /etc/ppem-agent.yml agent configuration file, if necessary.

    4. Start the agent service:

      systemctl start ppem-agent
      
    5. Ensure that the service started successfully and is available:

      systemctl status ppem-agent