IBM Proventia Network Enterprise User Manual - Updating Options

Updating Options

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IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Guide, Version 1.3

Updating Options

Introduction

The XPU process provides the following update options:

●

Schedule automatic updates on a periodic basis.

●

Schedule one-time updates.

●

Update an agent manually. 

You should configure automatic updates and use one-time and manual updates as needed 

between the automatic updates.

Update options

Table 77 describes the three update options:

Installation options 

with scheduled 

updates

Table 78 describes options for installing assessment content and firmware updates with 

scheduled updates: 

Rollbacks and 

backups 

You can roll back a content assessment update, but you can not roll back a firmware 

update. Because you cannot roll back a firmware update, you should make a full system 

backup before you install a firmware update. You can configure automatic backups for 

scheduled periodic or one-time updates. 

Note:

You can troubleshoot and roll back updates from Proventia Manager on the agent, 

but not from SiteProtector. 

Reference:

“Using Full System Backup Files” on page 206.

Update Option

Considerations

Automatically download and 

install updates on a periodic 

basis.

Automatic updates keep your agent up-to-date by regularly 

downloading and installing updates on a recurring schedule. 

Automatically download and 

install one-time updates.

Schedule one-time updates as needed between scheduled 

updates.

Manually download and 

install updates.

Use manual updates to download and install updates immediately.

Note: You can manually install updates only from the Proventia 

Manager—not from the SiteProtector Console. 

Table 77: Automatic and one-time updates

With scheduled updates, 

this type of update…

Is installed…

assessment content

immediately because these updates do not impact appliance 

availability.

firmware

as you configure it—either immediately or at a later time.

Note: Firmware updates may cause the agent to reboot, so you 

can delay installing them to minimize any potential impact on your 

network.

Table 78: Installation options with scheduled updates