Upgrading Kaspersky Security Center Linux through backup
To upgrade Administration Server from a previous version (starting from version 14.2) to version 16, you can create a backup of the Administration Server data and restore this data after installing Kaspersky Security Center Linux of a new version. If problems occur during installation, you can restore the previous version of Administration Server by using the backup of the Administration Server data created before the upgrade.
To upgrade an earlier version of Administration Server to version 16 through backup:
Uninstall the older version of Kaspersky Security Center Linux.
On the device intended to be the IAM server, create a database for IAM. The IAM database name must be different from the database used by the Administration Server. The Administration Server does not remove the IAM database automatically when uninstalling or moving the server to another device, you must remove the database manually.
For PostgreSQL, run the following command:
psql -U postgres; CREATE DATABASE <iam_db_name>;
For MariaDB, run the following command:
mysql -u root -p; CREATE DATABASE <iam_db_name>;
Create an unprivileged account 'ksciam' that must be a member of the 'kladmins' group. To do this, sequentially run the following commands under an account with root privileges:
For devices on which the earlier version of Network Agent was installed, create and run the task for remote installation of the new Network Agent version.
We recommend that you upgrade the Network Agent for Linux to the same version as Kaspersky Security Center Linux.
After completion of the remote installation task, the Network Agent version is upgraded.
Run the following commands on Linux-based assets to remove dependencies that are no longer needed:
For Debian-based assets, run either of the following commands:
apt-get -y autoremove
apt -y autoremove
For RPM-based assets, run either of the following commands: