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Agent and AIM Upgrades

You can upgrade to SystemEDGE Release 5.8.1 from any upgrade-eligible release of SystemEDGE:

• 4.3.4 and above (4.3.x)
• 5.1.0 and above (5.1.x)
• 5.6.0 and above (5.6.x)
• 5.7.0 and above (5.7.x)

The installer creates an upgraded directory at the root of the original installation path and copies configuration files from the previous release to it. When the agent starts for the first time, it migrates the configuration data to the newly created data directory. When upgrading SystemEDGE to Release 5.8.1, upgrade Advanced Encryption and all the corresponding AIMs to the latest versions.

Note: SystemEDGE Release 5.8.1 does not load AIMs of previous CA Virtual Assurance releases.

You can upgrade SystemEDGE in either of the following ways:

• Remote Deployment through CA Virtual Assurance to a system with an upgrade-eligible agent installed.

  Note: If you want to upgrade SystemEDGE, Advanced Encryption, and AIMs, use a single Remote Deployment job for the upgrade. Add SystemEDGE, Advanced Encryption, and all required AIMs to the Remote Deployment job. SystemEDGE loads only AIMs which are at Release 5.8.1 level or which are legacy AIMs like iddmod. That is, AIMs at 5.7.x level or below are quarantined.

  For more information about Remote Deployment, see the Remote Deployment chapter in the Administration Guide.

• Custom Manager installation on Windows. This option upgrades all the installed components. Select any additional agents and AIMs you want to install.
• Manual installation on a system with an upgrade-eligible agent installed.

  To perform an upgrade, install the agent as described in Install the Agent on Windows or Install the Agent on UNIX.

If an upgrade of an older agent release is not supported, do the following steps:

• For earlier releases of SystemEDGE, uninstall the agent and then install SystemEDGE Release 5.8.1. You can save all configuration data before uninstalling and then apply this data to SystemEDGE Release 5.8.1.

More Information:

Agent Upgrade from SystemEDGE 4.3.4