Step 6: Upgrade additional Policy Server machines

The central Policy Server resides on the same machine as the primary Policy Broker, and was automatically upgraded in the previous section.

If you have additional Policy Server instances, upgrade them next, regardless of what other services reside on the machines. Before upgrading any Policy Server, reboot the machine. If you are using a Forcepoint Appliance, do a full restart of the appliance.

Policy Server may reside on:

  • User directory and filtering appliances.
  • A Windows Server machine.
  • A RHEL machine.

See the Certified Product Matrix for a list of supported operating systems.

Note: If the Management API is deployed with any Policy Server, it must be re-installed after that Policy Server is upgraded.

Each Policy Server is required to have an on-box Multiplexer. To accomplish that, during upgrades from v8.1 or v8.2 to v8.5 or v8.5.3:

  • If Policy Server and Multiplexer reside on the same machine, both are upgraded as usual.
  • Instances of Multiplexer that do not have Policy Server on the same machine are automatically uninstalled.

    Note that any other components on the same machine are upgraded.

  • Multiplexer is added to any Policy Server machine that did not previously include a Multiplexer instance.

    If Policy Server was associated with an off-box Multiplexer (on Windows), the off-box Multiplexer instance is removed and a local instance is installed.

    If the off-box Multiplexer is on Linux and it not installed with other web protection components, you will need to run the upgrade on that Linux machine to make sure that Multiplexer instance is removed.

Jump to the section with the upgrade instructions for the platform that hosts Policy Server:

  • Policy Server: Appliance upgrade instructions
  • Policy Server: Windows upgrade instructions
  • Policy Server: Linux upgrade instructions