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Title
How to upgrade Authentication Services clients. -
Description
How to upgrade Authentication Services clients.
This article is to explain the different methods of upgrading Authentication Services clients.
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Resolution
There is multiple ways to upgrade QAS on the system which are described in the below resolutions. We recommend shutting down any databases such as DB2 before upgrading QAS and then restarting them after the upgrade. A reboot is required for versions lower than 4.1.0.21098 that are being upgraded.
RESOLUTION 1:
Use the install.sh script at root of the product download to upgrade. Be sure to add the upgrade command when running the script. Script must be run with root access.
Synopsis
install.sh [options] [mode] [command...]Example of the upgrade command:
/install.sh -qa upgrade To see help on the install.sh script type install.sh -h
RESOLUTION 2:
Use the operating system package commands. The packages are in the client/
directory of the product downoad. Solaris - pkgadd -a ../solaris-upgrade-defaults -d vasclnt*.pkg vasclnt
Redhat, SUSE - rpm -Uvh vasclnt*.rpmAIX - installp -acXd vasclnt.*.bff all OR you can use SMIT
Mac - 1 - Mount the disk image by double-clicking the VAS-. .dmg file 2 - Double-click the VAS.mpkg file from Finder3 - To upgrade QAS, simply follow the normal installation steps for both the GUI process that will detect when an upgrade is being performed and automatically perform the proper steps to upgrade versions.
RESOLUTION 3:
Use the Management console for Unix (MCU) to push out the new package. The client packages must be updated in the software setting path on the MCU server before being pushed out.
For further information on this method go to: Video - How to upgrade client remotely