Update using Offline Patch Bundle

You can get benefited from the latest signatures released for the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics by frequently checking for updates, downloading, and applying the updates. For appliances without internet connectivity you can use the Offline Patch Bundle to complete the update process.

Perform offline update of the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have already downloaded the Offline Patch Bundle for the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics,follow the Downloading update packages for Offline Update.

• Verify that you have an SSH client like Putty installed and can access.

• VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Appliance over SSH (Port 22).

• Verify that you have valid root user credentials for VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Appliance.

• Verify that you have valid shd-admin user credentials for VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics.

• Verify that you have remote file copy utilities like WinSCP installed on the system where you have the Offline Patch Bundle downloaded.

Caution:

Take the snapshot of the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance virtual machine before installing the new updates.

Procedure

1. Copy the downloaded Offline Patch Bundle file to folder /opt/vmware-shd/vmware-shd/temp on the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance using remote file copy client like WinSCP.
2. Open the Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance console using the VMware vSphere client or Secure Shell (SSH) client.
3. Log in as root user.
4. Change directory to the folder to which you have copied the Offline Patch Bundle cd /opt/vmware-shd/vmware-shd/temp.
5. Extract the Offline Patch Bundle using tar utility tar -zxf VMware-shd-patch-offline-product_version>-<build_number>.tar.gz.

   The Offline Patch Bundle extracted to a folder with naming pattern vmware-shd-patch-<product-version>.

6. Run the patch staging utility stageupdate found within the extracted patch folder vmware-shd-patch-<product-version>/stageupdate.
7. When prompted, please enter the password for user shd-admin.

   The Offline Patch Bundle will be validated and staged for updating the instance.

8. Confirm the restart of Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance by pressing any key.

   Appliance will be restarted. On startup, the software is updated automatically.

   Note:

   Press Ctrl+C to roll back the staging.

Results

The appliance upgraded to the desired version using the Offline Patch Bundle.

What to do next

1. Verify that the operation is successful using the steps mentioned in Verify the Update or Upgrade of VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics is Successful.