Manually Upgrading Windows Agents

Use ParityHostAgent.msi for all manual Windows agent upgrades.

Note:

• Manual upgrades must be run either by Local System or by a user account that has administrative rights and a loadable user profile.
• Manual upgrades must use a full path to the installer in the MSIEXEC command.

When a Carbon Black App Control server manages upgrades to 8.8.2 agents, the agents receive a new list of rules. For manual agent upgrades and upgrades using a third-party distribution method, major upgrades require that the file containing the new rules, configlist.xml, be copied to a location accessible to the agent installer. On the Carbon Black App Control server, this file is located in the same hostpkg folder as the agent installer, but it does not have a link on the Downloads page. It must be manually copied or referenced with a URL or path in the installer.