Checklist: Upgrading Your Azure Deployment

Throughout the rolling upgrade process, services not actively being upgraded would continue to be available. Services that utilize the ArcSight Database, such as event ingestion and search, would be interrupted during the Database upgrade phase, but any in-flight data would be cached and processed as soon as the Database upgrade completes.

If you deployed and configured your system for high availability, during the rolling Kubernetes worker node upgrade process, services delivered by pods on the affected worker node would be restarted on another worker node.  Similarly, the upgrade of Kubernetes pods is performed in a rolling manner, so there would be a brief pod-level service pause as pods are restarted to perform the upgrade.  Some services, such as Transformation Hub, can be configured for high availability with pod replicas so that there are no service pauses during the rolling upgrade.

Use this checklist to complete the upgrade tasks in the listed order.

 

Task

See

Ensure that you are upgrading from and to the correct version of ArcSight Platform

ArcSight Platform Upgrade Paths

Identify the product versions, files to download, and known issues related to the upgrade

"Downloading the ArcSight Platform Installation Files" in the Release Notes for ArcSight Platform 23.3

Download the installation packages

Downloading the Installation Packages for an Azure Deployment

Ensure that your Azure environment is ready for deployment

Prerequisites for Upgrading on Azure

(Conditional) If your deployment includes Intelligence or Recon, upgrade the Database

Upgrading the Database in Azure

Upgrade the deployed capabilities

Upgrading the ArcSight Suite

Upgrade of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Performing the AKS Upgrade

(Conditional) If you have purchased licenses for additional capabilities, deploy them to your environment

Adding Additional Capabilities to an Existing Cluster

(Conditional) If your environment includes ESM, you should upgrade to the latest version

Upgrading ESM