Step 1: Upgrade the Policy Broker machine
You must upgrade the machine that hosts Web Policy Broker first, regardless of which other components on are on the machine. Policy Broker may reside on:
- A full policy source appliance
- A Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, 2012, or 2012 R2 machine.
- A RHEL 6.5 or later, 7.0, 7.1, or 7.2 machine.
Any other components on the Policy Broker machine are upgraded along with Policy Broker.
If your configuration includes a primary Policy Broker and one or more replica Policy Brokers, you must upgrade the primary Policy Broker first.
Upgrade replica Policy Brokers after the primary has been upgraded and before attempting to upgrade any Policy Servers associated with the replicas. If Policy Server is installed on the Policy Broker machine, it is upgraded at the same time.
If Policy Broker resides on the management server, running the Forcepoint Security Installer also upgrades the infrastructure and web, data, and email management components as described in Step 5: Upgrade the management server. Ensure you also follow the steps in Post-upgrade steps to configure the management server.
For a software installation, run the Forcepoint Security Installer or Web Linux installer. The instructions in this section cover the upgrade of a Windows machine. For instructions on upgrading an appliance or a Linux machine, see the Upgrade Guide: Forcepoint Web Security.