10.0 Upgrading the Operating System for Access Gateway Appliance

Access Gateway Appliance bundles the latest SUSE kernel. During fresh installation of Access Gateway Appliance, the latest kernel is installed automatically. You must upgrade the base operating system before upgrading Access Gateway Appliance.

NOTE:After upgrading base operating system, you also need to re-register the new channel. For more information, Section 10.1, Setting Up the Channel After Upgrading Base Operating System.

Perform the following steps to upgrade the base operating system:

  1. Get the Access Gateway 4.3 Appliance ISO and mount it in the Access Manager server where you want to upgrade. For example, if you want to mount on /root/iso, use the following command:

    mount -o loop /dev/dvd /root/iso/

    NOTE:Create /root/iso by using the mkdir -p /root/iso command before executing the above command.

  2. Use the following command to add the mounted ISO as the upgrade repository:

    zypper ar /root/iso/ 43agapp

  3. Refresh the new repository by using the following command:

    zypper ref

  4. Use the following command to upgrade the base operating system from the repository you added:

    zypper dup --from 43agapp

  5. You will be prompted a dependency resolution for open-iscsi and crash-sial-6.0.7-0.10.1.x86_64. Select 1 from the solutions.

  6. Accept the license. The operating system will start upgrading.

  7. After upgrade, view the notification.

  8. Restart Access Gateway Appliance.