Auto Upgrading of Proxy Agent

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Last updated: Apr 22, 2024 by Shilpa K (Deactivated)Version comment

The auto upgrade feature in proxy agent is supported from v4.1 Release onwards. The auto upgrade feature allows to upgrade the proxy Servers automatically from the central location (Data Collector) by pushing the files to the configured proxy Servers in the network. In a bigger network setup, where thousands of proxy Servers are installed and all these proxy Servers communicate with the summit Server through single data collector, upgrading the proxy agent to a higher version manually is tedious process and time consuming.

The auto upgrade feature supported in the proxy agent v4.1 or higher release, helps to perform this step automatically from the data collector with fewer steps. The auto upgrade operation is done only in the proxy Servers, in which the current version is v4.1 or higher. In the proxy Server with v4.0.3, the auto upgrade operation is not supported. 

The sequence of steps to be performed before the auto upgrade operations are listed below:

  1. Check the version of the Data Collector, if it is lower than v4.1 then uninstall the Data Collector and install the v4.1 Data Collector. If the Data Collector version is v4.1 or higher, you can skip this step.
  2. Copy the proxy auto update installer files from the Summit CD ( <SummitInstaller CD>\Summit<version no>\ProxyAutoUpdate ) and replace these files and in the Data Collector Proxy Agent folder: \\SUMMIT\ProxyAgent\ProxyAutoUpdate.
    1. On the machines with 32 bit, the SUMMIT proxy agent will be installed to C:\Program Files\SUMMIT\Proxy Agent.
    2. On the machines with 64 bit, the SUMMIT proxy agent will be installed to C:\Program Files(x86)\SUMMIT\Proxy Agent.
  3. The auto upgrade step is executed based on the commands defined in the AutoUpgrade xml file. After doing these manual steps, you need to open the proxy dashboard page from the SummitAI IT Operations Management module.
  4. Next, go to Proxy Dashboard and select the set of proxy Servers to which you want to auto upgrade the proxy agent and specify the schedule time for the same.
  5. The Proxy Agent creates a one-time job in the scheduler for all the selected proxy Servers and executes the auto upgrade commands as defined in the AutoUpgrade xml file. After the successful auto upgrade operation, the status is updated in the Proxy Dashboard, and you can view the change status details in tabular mode.