Upgrading Your Amazon Web Services Deployment

This release significantly changes the ArcSight Database (see the Release Notes for ArcSight Platform). You cannot upgrade the database. It must be installed as new. However, this release does enable you to deploy or upgrade Recon and Intelligence in your environment, as well as install either capability for the first time.

The complete process of upgrading an AWS deployment involves the following tasks.

	Task	See
	Verify upgrade prerequisites are met	Upgrade Prerequisites
	Upgrade the EKS control plane	Upgrading the EKS Control Plane
	Update kubectl on the bastion	Updating kubectl on the Bastion
	Prepare the upgrade package	Preparing the Upgrade Package
	Upload product images to the ECR	Uploading the New Images to the Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
	(Conditional) If you plan to deploy Intelligence or Recon, install the ArcSight Database	Installing the Database in AWS
	(Conditional) To prevent both the original and newly installed databases from ingesting duplicate events, stop data ingestion on the original database.	Checklist: Stopping Event Ingestion
	Upgrade CDF on AWS	Running the Upgrade
	Change value for portal-ingress-controller-svc, if necessary	(Conditional) Changing the Values of frontend-ingress-controller-svc and portal-ingress-controller-svc
	Perform the upgrade of deployed capabilities	Upgrading Deployed Capabilities on AWS
	Clean up the EFS Directory post upgrade	Cleaning Up the EFS Directory (AWS)
	Modify producers, consumers, and ArcMC	Modify the (Connector) Producers and Consumers
	Restarting the Event Consumers	Restarting the Event Consumers
	(Optional) Add Transformation Hub to Fusion ArcMC	(Optional) Adding Transformation Hub to Fusion ArcMC