FWA Upgrade from 8000 to higher

FWA Upgrade from 8000 to higher

Note: Please stop the FWA service and take the entire backup of <FWA Home> folder.

Please follow the steps given below to upgrade from build 8000 to build 8110.

Step 1:
  • Login to your Firewall Analyzer web-client
  • Click the 'About' link from the top right corner under 'Help' link
  • Note down the Build Number, Build Type, Database of your current installation
  • Shutdown/Stop the Firewall Analyzer server/service
Step 2:
  • Open a command prompt and go to the installation folder <Firewall Analyzer Home>/jre/bin
  • Execute a command to identify the current JRE version of Firewall Analyzer like below,
    • D:\ManageEngine\Firewall\jre\bin>.\java.exe   -version
  • Note down the displayed java version value (1.5.0_11 or 1.6.0_18)

JRE Upgrade: (Applicable only when the java version is 1.5.0_11)
  1. Open a Windows Explorer/Command prompt and go to the installation folder of Firewall Analyzer i.e., C:\\ManageEngine\Firewall
  2. Rename the existing <Firewall Analyzer Home>\jre folder to 'jre_1_5_11'
  3. Download the respective JRE_1.6 zip file from the below URLs as per the 'Build Type' specific to Windows/Linux and save the file at <Firewall Analyzer Home> folder.
  4. Unzip/Extract the downloaded zip file and you will get a new '<Firewall Analyzer Home>/jre' folder.
NOTE:
In case of 'Firewall Analyzer Distributed Edition' if the java version is 1.5.0_11, you should follow the JRE upgrade steps in each Collector & Admin Server separately before you start applying the service pack in 'Admin Server' of Firewall Analyzer.

Service Pack Upgrade:
  1. Download and save the below Service Pack in the Firewall Analyzer server machine,

http://www.manageengine.com/products/firewall/61794333/AdventNet_ManageEngine_Firewall_Analyzer_8_0_0_SP-1_1.ppm

  1. Open a command prompt (run as Administrator) and execute Updatemanager.bat (Updatemanager.sh for Linux) from <Firewall Analyzer Home>\bin directory
  2. Click 'Browse' and 'Install' the above saved service pack.



Note: Once the upgrade is successfully completed, please run Firewall Analyzer for some time and then you may proceed for the next upgrade.


Service Pack to upgrade from 8100/8110 to 8300:

http://manageengine.com/products/firewall/61794333/ManageEngine_Firewall_Analyzer_8_0_0_SP-3_0.ppm

Service Pack to upgrade from 8300 to 8500:

https://www.manageengine.com/products/firewall/61794333/ManageEngine_Firewall_Analyzer_8_0_0_SP-5_0.ppm


*You can raise a new request from this link, to upgrade from build 8500 to version 12200.