This section discusses how to upgrade or migrate Access Manager to the newer version. You must take a backup of the existing configurations before upgrading or migrating Access Manager components .
For more information, see Back Up and Restore
in the NetIQ Access Manager 5.0 Administration Guide.
NOTE:By default, the Access Manager configuration uses stronger TLS protocols, ciphers, and other security settings. If you want to revert these settings after upgrading, see Restoring Previous Security Level After Upgrading Access Manager
in the NetIQ Access Manager 5.0 Security Guide.
You must upgrade the Access Manager components in the following sequence:
Administration Console
Identity Server
Access Gateway
(Optional) Analytics Server
Supported Upgrade Paths: For information about the latest supported upgrade paths, see the specific Release Notes on the Access Manager Documentation website.
Important Points to Consider
If you have installed additional nodes of Administration Console on other servers for fault tolerance, ensure to first upgrade the primary Administration Console. Else, the directory schema does not get updated.
Upgrade all nodes of a cluster before you start upgrading another device.
When nodes in a cluster are running on different release versions, you must not change any configuration through Administration Console.
This section includes the following topics: