Upgrading sensors
If OpenText SAST is installed in a location that requires that you have administrator permissions to modify it (for example in Program Files), then to update a sensor you must start it with administrator permissions. Otherwise, the sensor cannot write files to disk. If automatic updates is enabled, major updates on standalone clients must finish successfully before the sensor can start. With automatic updates enabled, patch updates allow sensors and clients to start unless the upgrade fails.
To upgrade your OpenText ScanCentral SAST sensors (on Windows or Linux), you can either install the latest version of OpenText SAST, or unzip the Fortify_ScanCentral_Client_<version>_x64.zip file. You can use the client-only approach if you plan only to use remote translation and analysis workflows. Local translation requires a local OpenText SAST installation. You can also find the OpenText ScanCentral SAST client inside the Fortify_ScanCentral_Controller_<version>_x64.zip file in the tomcat/client/scancentral.zip directory.
You can configure automatic upgrades of both sensors and clients. For details, see Enabling automatic updates of clients and sensors.
To upgrade sensors, install a new version of OpenText SAST and a new version of OpenText ScanCentral SAST client, and set the SAST_LOCATION environment variable.
See also
Enabling automatic updates of clients and sensors
Configuring Sensors to Use the Progress Command when Starting on Java