Before installing the application upgrade package, it is recommended to first create a backup of the current state of each Central Node server to be updated and download it to the hard drive from the application administrator menu. If installing an application upgrade package fails, or if you need to reinstall Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, you can use the backup copy of the application.
We also recommend learning about the limitations of the version to which you are upgrading.
You cannot migrate from the non-high-availability version of the application to the high availability version by upgrading it — if you are using the non-high-availability version of the application, you can only install the non-high-availability version during the upgrade, and vice versa.
Upgrading the application involves the following steps:
The application does not have a procedure for upgrading the component. You must install version 7.0.3 of the component.
After installing the component, you need to set the maximum number of simultaneously running virtual machines. The default value is 48.
When installing the component on a VMware ESXi virtual machine, you must set up a configuration described in Calculations for the Sandbox component section.
You can upgrade the component in one of the following ways:
In this case, follow one of the following instructions: Upgrading Central Node installed on a server or Upgrading Central Node installed as a cluster.
Versions earlier than 6.1 cannot be upgraded to version 7.0.3. If you are using an older version of the application, you must upgrade Central Node to version 6.1 in the following order: 3.7 → 3.7.1, 3.7.1 → 3.7.2, 3.7.2 → 4.0, 4.0 → 4.1, 4.1 → 5.0, 5.0 → 5.1, 5.1 → 6.0, 6.0 → 6.0.2, 6.0.2 → 6.1.
If you have upgraded your PCN to version 7.0.3 and do not intend to upgrade the application to version 7.1.1 for six months or more, we strongly recommend applying the fix_old_slots.sh script after the upgrade to avoid overfilling the PCN server disk. You can get the script file and instructions for its use by contacting the Technical Support Service.
The hardware requirements for 7.0 Central Node servers are different from the hardware requirements of the previous version of the component. We strongly recommend making sure that your server configuration satisfies the requirements listed in the Calculations for the Central Node component section.
The application does not have a procedure for upgrading the component. You must install version 7.0.3 of the component.
Please note that network traffic dump files saved to external storage by version 7.0.1 of the Sensor component remain in the external storage after you install the Sensor component version 7.0.3, but you cannot view or download them in the application web interface.
If you use the solution together with Kaspersky Security for Windows Server, you can migrate from Kaspersky Security for Windows Server to Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows version 12.1 or later that contains the built-in agent. For more information about migration, see the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows Help.
Special considerations for updating Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform from version 6.1 to version 7.0.3