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Choose your upgrade path and playbook

Bravura Security provides playbooks to guide you through a systematic and safe in-place upgrade.

These playbooks serve as:

  • Starting templates to modify with your organization's specific needs

  • Checklists to prevent forgetting steps or running them out of order

  • Records of decisions made both before and during patch

  • Records of patch details, such as time taken on specific steps and outcomes

Use a playbook in conjunction with this site. They do not replace the content on this site.

Use this section to determine which upgrade path, tool and/or playbook to use:

  1. Determine your current version

  2. Determine the version you are upgrading to

  3. Select your upgrade strategy

Follow the detailed steps in Upgrading an instance. Review the playbooks below carefully and make additions and changes as needed.

For upgrades where:

  • The current version is in the 12.x line, but pre-12.2, test upgrades in UAT. Bravura Security recommends following one of the playbooks listed below as closely as possible and making any necessary additions and changes as they are identified through testing.

  • The current version is pre-12.x, you will likely need to write your own playbook.

Contact Support for assistance.

Determine what upgrade strategy to use.

  • QueueFlush

    This playbook is recommended. Queue flush will gracefully shut down the required services, initiate database commit suspend, and flush all data in replication queues prior to proceeding with upgrade.

    Download this playbook:

    Upgrade Playbook - Queue Flush

  • Rolling upgrade

    Select this method to keep business disruptions to a minimum, as rolling upgrades allow nodes to be upgraded in sequence while maintaining availability of some nodes in production.

    Download this playbook:

    Rolling Upgrade Playbook

  • Upgrade Troubleshooting

    This playbook is recommended to troubleshoot issues encountered during upgrading Bravura Security Fabric from an older version to new version.

    Download this playbook:

    Troubleshooting Upgrade Playbook

Current version is on the 12.2 release train

Current version is on the 12.3 release train

Current version is 12.4.0 or newer

Determine what upgrade strategy to use.

  • QueueFlush

    This playbook is recommended. Queue flush will gracefully shut down the required services, initiate database commit suspend, and flush all data in replication queues prior to proceeding with upgrade.

    Download this playbook:

    Upgrade Playbook - Queue Flush

  • Rolling upgrade

    Select this method to keep business disruptions to a minimum, as rolling upgrades allow nodes to be upgraded in sequence while maintaining availability of some nodes in production.

    Download this playbook:

    Rolling Upgrade Playbook

Troubleshooting

  • Upgrade Troubleshooting

    This playbook is recommended to troubleshoot issues encountered during upgrading Bravura Security Fabric from an older version to new version.

    Download this playbook:

    Troubleshooting Upgrade Playbook