Updating Appliances

When an update is available for the Manager or a connected appliance, it is indicated by a Update button in the Updates column on the Appliance Management page on the dashboard. Every appliance can be updated independently of other appliances of the same type.

Appliances connected using the http:// protocol will display the following message: “For security reasons, appliances cannot be updated or sync YARA rules without HTTPS URLs. Please change the appliance URL to HTTPS to update this appliance or synchronize YARA rules.” See the Editing appliances section for more details.

Clicking the button opens the confirmation dialog where the update process can be initiated (by clicking Update) or canceled (by clicking Cancel). An update progress bar will replace the Update button for the appliance that is being updated.

If the appliance update is successful, an “Updated to [version]” notification is displayed in the Updates column for the updated appliance.

The appliance web server and services will be restarted. Note that in some cases the whole appliance may reboot. Because of the web server restart, it is recommended to notify all appliance users of the impending update before it is applied.

If the update process fails, the Update button changes to Retry, with the additional option to Download Logs for more information on why the update failed.

The dialog allows the user to try updating the appliance again (by clicking Retry), as well as to view a detailed log and inspect why the update failed (by clicking Log).

Appliance Update Policies

Sequential Upgrade Policy

Spectra Detect and Spectra Analyze appliances can be directly upgraded from any minor version to any minor version of the next major version.

Major/feature releases are indicated by the first two numbers of the version number, while the third number is reserved for minor/patch releases.

For example, users who want to upgrade their Spectra Analyze 5.9.2 to Spectra Analyze 5.10.3 can do that without having to manually install the intermediate 5.9.3 or 5.10.1 versions.

Note that major versions are not skipped during upgrades, so upgrading directly from 5.8.X to 5.10.X is not possible without installing 5.9.X.

The full list of currently supported versions for ReversingLabs appliances is available on the Customer Portal (login required).