Downloading software updates directly to an Access Appliance node
Use this procedure to download a software release update to an appliance node. For a rolling upgrade or a parallel upgrade, download the package to one of the nodes in the cluster. For a node-by-node upgrade, you need to download the package to both the nodes.
For more details about the upgrade methods, See About the Access Appliance upgrade.
To download software release updates directly to an appliance node, complete the following steps:
- If not already done so, open an SSH session and log on to the appliance as an administrator using the Access Appliance shell menu.
- To determine if a software update is available from the Veritas Support website, enter the following command:
system software available-patch
The software release update that is available for installation is displayed. Note the name of the software release update package. For example, VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm
- To download the available software update, enter the following command:
system software download-update update-name=update-name
where update-name is the name of the software release update package. For example:system software download-update update-name=VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm
You can view the download progress by using the system software download-progress command.
[access-8.2] node > system software download-progress The status of VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm is downloading, and the progress is: [9%|ETA: 0:08:35]
- To verify that the software update has downloaded successfully, enter the following command:
system software downloaded
The downloaded software update is validated and details such as the patch name, size, and version are displayed.