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Upgrading DC from 5.3.02 to 5.4

mahesh18 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:46:11 GMT

Hi everyone,

I need to upgrade the DC and sensors to 5.4.

Can i upgrade directly from 5.3.02 to 5.4?

Regards

Mahesh

Mahesh,To update to Version 5

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 01:58:28 GMT

Mahesh,

To update to Version 5.4, a Defense Center must be running at least Version 5.3.1.

Once you move to 5.3.1 you can then go to 5.4 using the upgrade package (filename "Sourcefire_3D_Defense_Center_S3_Upgrade-5.4.0-763.sh").

You should then update it further to the latest point release and patch level (currently 5.4.1.2-38 using filename "Sourcefire_3D_Defense_Center_S3_Patch-5.4.1.2-38.sh")

I was able to upgrade to 5.40

mahesh18 — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:40:31 GMT

I was able to upgrade to 5.40 but that took more than 6 hours.

Regards

MAhesh

Yes - FireSIGHT upgrades are

Marvin Rhoads — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:14:33 GMT

Yes - FireSIGHT upgrades are very slow.

There are a lot of database objects in the background that are being updated. Generally speaking products that have database underpinnings are much slower to upgrade.

I agree assume sensors should

mahesh18 — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:41:41 GMT

I agree assume sensors should take less time as they have no database?

Generally, for smaller

Daniel Sandstrom — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:37:31 GMT

Generally, for smaller increments in version upgrades are faster. And Yes - Firesight is really slow to upgrade, especially going from 5.3.x to 5.4.x .. faster upgrading from 5.4.x to a newer 5.4.x though.

The modules are quite consistent in upgrade times from 5.4.x release notes :

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services on ASA5512-X, ASA5515-X, ASA5525-X, ASA5545-X, ASA5555-X, ASA5585-X-SSP-10, ASA5585-X-SSP-20, ASA5585-X-SSP-40, and the ASA5585-X-SSP-60 :

46 minutes

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services on ASA5506-X, ASA5506W-X, ASA5506H-X, ASA5508-X, and ASA5516-X :

116 minutes