The Access Manager Appliance bundles the latest SUSE kernel. During fresh installation of Access Manager appliance, the latest kernel will be installed automatically. During upgrade, you must upgrade the base Operating System before upgrading the Access Manager appliance.
NOTE:Access Manager appliance channel updates are only available over the base Operating System version of SLES 11 SP3.
Perform the following steps to upgrade the base Operating System.
Get the Access Manager 3.2 SP3 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 using mkdir -p /root/iso command before executing the above command.
Use the following command to add the mounted ISO as the upgrade repository.
zypper ar /root/iso/ 323appiso
Refresh the repository using the following command.
zypper ref
Use the following command to upgrade the base Operating System from the repository you added.
zypper dup --from 323appiso
You will be prompted a dependency resolution for usbutils. Select 1 from the solutions.
Accept the license. The Operating System will start upgrading.
After upgrade, view the notification.
Restart the Access Manager appliance server.