Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 User’s Guide

Update Repository Path

By default, it comes with a repository path. To update the repository path, perform the following tasks:

Click Setting, click Virtual Appliance Management under Setting.
Virtual Appliance Management page is displayed
Click Edit beside Update Repository Path option.
Update Repository Path window is displayed. You can update the path using Update Repository Path field.
Click Save to save the updated path.
It directs you to Virtual Appliance Management page. On the page, under Update Repository Path, you get the updated information regarding Current Virtual Appliance Version , Available Virtual Appliance Version , Repository Path
To uperform the update, click Update Virtual Appliance.
After you click Update Virtual Appliance, a dialogue box is displayed with few statement and warning message.
- NOTE: The message displayed in the dialogue box is “ Updating the appliance will restart the system. The action will log off all current users and cancel all jobs in progress.” It even displayed the message “ The update process will take approximately 25 minutes depending on your data connection: 15 minutes to download the update and 10 minutes to apply.” Apart from these, it gives you information about number of logged-in users, and in progress jobs. At the end, it asks for your confirmation “ Are you sure you want to perform an appliance update?”
After reading the message, if you decide that it’s good to proceed with update virtual appliance, click Yes on the dialogue box.

It will update your appliance.

NOTE: This process restart your system. Once update and restore is complete, you will get logged in again. Once the update process is complete, it redirects you to login page. In the meantime it monitor the progress of update and keep giving message accordingly. At the end, you get a tab as Click to login. After you click on the tab, you will be directed to login page to log in again to appliance.