Installation and upgrade

50682 | Release Notes | X-Series Appliances | 28-May-2014

New X-Series appliances are delivered pre-loaded with the software needed for provisioning via the firstboot script.

The Quick Start poster and Getting Started Guide are your comprehensive resources for installing the physical unit, running firstboot, and completing initial configuration.

To upgrade from v7.8.2 on X-Series:

Log on to mywebsense.com and select the Downloads tab.

Select Websense X10G Base Configuration from the Product drop-down box, then select version 7.8.3.

Locate the X10G Security Blade Upgrade Patch and download the 3 patch files to a remote filestore. The files include:

An appliance patch file: Websense-Patch-APP-7.8.3.rpm

A Web Security patch file: Websense-Patch-WSE-7.8.3.tgz

A Content Gateway patch file: Websense-Patch-WCG-7.8.3.tgz

Upgrade the policy source machine before upgrading your security blades.

See Downloading the TRITON Unified Installer or the Web Security Linux installer for information about getting the installers used to upgrade off-appliance components.

Note that in all instances, you must upgrade in the following order:

Full policy source

User directory and filtering (policy lite) security blades, and non-appliance servers that host Policy Server

Filtering only security blades

Log on to the appliance CLI via the security blade iDRAC controller.

Enter config mode and use the following command to upload the appliance rpm patch file to the appliance from the remote filestore:

load patch --file Websense-Patch-APP-7.8.3.rpm
-- location <filestore_alias>

When the patch has loaded, use the following command to upgrade the appliance, including the CLI:

apply patch --file Websense-Patch-APP-7.8.3.rpm

The upgrade process takes about 15 minutes. Do not restart or turn off the appliance while the upgrade is underway.

The patch will automatically restart the appliance to complete the patching process.

After the appliance patch is installed successfully, reconnect to the appliance CLI, either via the iDRAC or via SSH.

Load the Web Security patch file to the appliance:

load patch --Websense-Patch-WSE-7.8.3.tgz
--location <filestore_alias>

10.

Load the Content Gateway patch file to the appliance:

load patch --WebsensePatch-WCG-7.8.3.tgz
--location <filestore_alias>

11.

Install the Web Security patch:

install patch --file Websense-Patch-WSE-7.8.3.tgz

12.

Install the Content Gateway patch:

install patch --file WebsensePatch-WCG-7.8.3.tgz

Downloading the TRITON Unified Installer or the Web Security Linux installer

The TRITON console, reporting components, and other support components are installed off of the appliance, on separate servers.

To download the TRITON Unified Installer or the Web Security Linux installer:

Go to mywebsense.com and log in to your account.

You are taken to the My Products and Subscriptions page.

Click the Downloads tab.

Under Download Product Installers, select the Product and Version that you want to install or upgrade to (7.8.3).

The available installers are listed in the form.

Click the plus sign ("+") next to an installer entry for more information about the installer.

Click the download link to download the installer.