
Upgrade Instructions: Web Security and Web Filter
2 Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere
Beginning with v7.8.4, you have the option to upgrade your Web Security deployment
incrementally, rather than upgrading all machines and components at the same time.
This allows you to upgrade individual Policy Server instances and their dependent
components as separate "logical deployments." Policy Server instances that have not
been upgraded and their dependent components continue to function normally at
v7.8.3. Please see the new Incremental Upgrade
guide for details.
Step 1: Prepare for upgrade, page 2
Step 2: Prepare appliances for upgrade (appliance-only), page 4
Step 3: Restart services before starting the upgrade, page 6
Step 4: Upgrade the Policy Broker machine, page 7
Step 5: Upgrade additional Policy Server machines, page 11
Step 6: Upgrade additional Filtering Service, Network Agent, and User Service
machines, page 15
Step 7: Upgrade Websense Log Server, page 19
Step 8: Upgrade the TRITON management server, page 21
Step 9: Upgrade any additional components, page 22
Step 1: Prepare for upgrade
Before upgrading Web Security or Web Filter:
1. Make sure the installation machine meets the hardware and operating system
recommendations in System requirements for this version
.
2. If your Websense software is integrated with a third-party firewall, proxy server,
or caching application, make sure that your integration product is supported in this
version.
In v7.8.x, the supported third-party integration products are:
Important
Before you start the upgrade process, the SQL Server
Agent jobs associated with the Log Database must be
stopped as described in Step 1: Prepare for upgrade, page
2. Please coordinate with your database administrator, if
needed, before beginning the upgrade process.
Note that this requirement does not apply to SQL Server
Express.
Product Versions
Microsoft Forefront TMG 2008 or later
Cisco ASA v8.0 or later
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