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  1. Home
  2. Product Documentation
  3. Section II. Deploying and configuring the virtual appliances
  4. Deploy and configure
  5. About hotfixes
  6. Applying and uninstalling the hotfix to the virtual appliance

Applying and uninstalling the hotfix to the virtual appliance

You can use the klish menu to perform hotfix-related tasks in the Resiliency Platform.

To apply the hotfix to the virtual appliance

  1. Log on to the virtual appliance as admin.
  2. Go to utilities prompt.
  3. You need to create sftp session to put the patch onto appliance.
  4. Run the sftp-session start put patch command.
  5. Temporary sftp user would be created for which you need to set password.
  6. Once you set password for this sftp user, you need to open sftp connection to same appliance (use any sftp client). Use this sftp user with same password.
  7. Go to upload folder.
  8. Upload the patch to Upload folder on the appliance using put downloaded-patch-location command.

    The hotfix is downloaded to your virtual appliance.

  9. Log on to the virtual appliance as admin.
  10. Execute the hotfix command.
  11. Run the following commands to perform the operations that are related to hotfixes:

    Task description

    Command

    Example

    To view all hotfixes that are applied on the appliance

    list-applied-hotfixes

    list-applied-hotfixes

    To view the hotfixes that you have uploaded to the appliance

    list-available-hotfixes

    list-available-hotfixes

    To apply an available hotfix

    apply-hotfix version_of_the_hotfix

    apply-hotfix 3.3.2.5

    For a complete list of options available with the Hotfix command, refer to the following section:

    See About klish.

To uninstall the hotfix to the virtual appliance

  1. View all hotfixes that are applied on the appliance, by running the following command: list-applied-hotfixes.
  2. Uninstall an applied hotfix by running the following command: uninstall-hotfix version_of_the_hotfix

    For example, uninstall-hotfix 3.3.2.5.

    Note:

    You can only uninstall the last installed hotfix. Attempting to uninstall an older hotfix removes all older hotfixes in the same functional area.

See About hotfixes.

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