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Summary



In order to access the new DPX Management Console, you must be running the DPX Master server appliance with DPX 4.6.0 or later.

Step By Step



In order to access the new DPX Management Console, you must be running the DPX Master server appliance with DPX 4.6.0 or later. Once you have upgraded to DPX 4.6.0 or later you can access the Management by https://<MasterAppliance TCPIP address or hostname>. 

In order to update your existing appliance please follow these steps.

The DPX master server OVA appliance, operating system , docker containers are updated in online mode or offline mode by the provided ISO file and script file hosted on the Catalogic Software MySupport site. Follow these steps to update the DPX master server OVA appliance to the latest release.
  1. Run a Catalog condense and correct any errors before continuing. See Condense: Freeing Resources in the Catalog in the User's Guide.
  2. Back up the Catalog. See Backup: Protecting the Catalog Data in the User's Guide
  3. Let any running jobs complete and pause any upcoming scheduled jobs.
  4. Download the latest update_dpx_4.6.0.sh from the MySupport site. If performing an offline installation (no connection to the Internet from the appliance), also download the latest DPX appliance update dpx_update.iso
  5. Log in to DPX master server OVA appliance using SSH. The default credentials are dpxadmin for the username and DPXvStor as the password.
  6. Create the upload location on the DPX master server OVA appliance. This location is the expected location of the script and ISO. The ISO is only used for offline mode installation.
$ sudo mkdir /catalogic/upload
  1. If installing in offline mode, copy the downloaded script file and ISO file from the machine to which they were downloaded to the DPX master server OVA appliance upload directory created in the previous step. If installing in online mode, copy the script file to the upload directory created in the previous step.
  2. Create a VMWare snapshot of the appliance.
  3. Modify the file permissions of the script file.
$ sudo chmod +777 /catalogic/upload/update_dpx_4.6.0.sh
  1. Execute the update_dpx.sh script to perform an online mode installation if the appliance is connected to the Internet. Navigate to the upload directory created in Step 6. See the example below.
$ cd /catalogic/upload/
$ sudo ./update_dpx_4.6.0.sh
  1. Alternatively, an offline mode installation may be performed by using the ISO file as the argument to the script. Navigate to the upload directory created in Step 6. This assumes that both the script file and the ISO are in the previously created upload directory.
$ cd /catalogic/upload/
$ sudo ./update_dpx_4.6.0.sh dpx_update.iso
  1. Please note all previous steps do not update DPX, just OS and Platform. Once the process completes, update the core DPX master server components using the DPX Autoupdate process.
  2. Restart the DPX master server OVA appliance.
The provided script and ISO will update the CentOS Linux kernel and associated operating system (OS) packages. Additionally, the embedded vStor will be updated and the DPX service stack which includes the stack configuration and Docker images.

Note: The core DPX master server components will not be updated with the script and will need to be updated separately by using the DPX Autoupdate process. This process can be performed in online mode if Internet access is available or manually in offline mode if there is no Internet access to the DPX master server OVA appliance. For more information see "Auto-Upgrade" in this Reference Guide