Subscribe to Help Center RSS FeedKeeping your PAM Connectors up to date is essential, as some platform improvements and new features require the latest connector version. PAM is continuously evolving, and administrators are notified by email whenever an update is available or required.
Warning: During the update process, users will not be able to access computers remotely. Please coordinate with your team and plan for approximately 10–20 minutes of downtime.
Installing the Update
- Log in to Vault platform.
- Go to Administration > Connectors. A list of available connectors is displayed.
- Select a desired connector, click Actions, and then select Install. The Installing PAM Connector pop-up window is displayed.
- On the installation pop-up window, under Choose a version, you can select the latest version or you can select another version if you need to downgrade the Connector.
- You can choose any one of the installation modes:
- Copy the installation command line from the Execute the following command line in order to install Vault Connector field and paste it on the Linux machine
- Click download under download and execute the install file o download the installation script and run the script on the Linux machine prepared to be the connector.
- Access the linux machine and change to root user by using the
sudo sucommand. - After being the root user, paste the command from the platform. This requires an authentication from a local Vault user.
Important:
You must have root access to perform the update.
Use sudo su before running the update commands.
The same bash command used to install the Connector, will remove the existing containers and update the connector to the version that you select.
Verifying the Update
- After installation, check the Connectors menu to confirm that the software version and last access date are updated for the connector you just upgraded.
- On the connector machine, run docker ps -a to ensure all four containers are running.
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