Upgrading Multiple Boosters
What
The auto-Booster upgrade Booster feature will offergives FileWave administrators a centralized way to upgrade allmultiple their boostersBoosters from within FileWave.
When/Why
Having to ssh or remote control each of themBooster to download and run the installer takes too much time. Starting with FileWave 14.4, the "Boosters" and "Booster Details" tabs will provide anmanual optionupgrade actions for each BoosterBoosters that hashave an applicable upgrade available. Starting with FileWave 16.3.0, compatible outdated Boosters can also be automatically scheduled for upgrade after a FileWave Server upgrade. By default, that automatic Booster upgrade is scheduled one week later, the delay is configurable in Preferences, and administrators can unschedule it if needed. Some of the criteria to determine if there is an applicable upgrade are:
- Booster has to be at least 14.4
- The operating system version has to be supported by the target version
- The booster has to be running in order to trigger an upgrade
- The version number of the target version has to be higher than the currently installed version (i.e you cannot use this feature to reinstall/downgrade to a specific version)
This willarticle discussdiscusses amanually multi-Boosterscheduling setup.upgrades Asfor multiple Boosters. In FileWave 16.3.0 and later, it also complements the automatic post-Server-upgrade scheduling workflow when you increasewant to start upgrades immediately or control the numberselection of Boosters in use this process will save more and more time.yourself.
How
It is also possible to upgradeschedule multiple boosters.Boosters for upgrade at once. In this case, one boosterBooster will be upgraded one after another in alphabetical order. In FileWave 16.3.0 and later, compatible outdated Boosters may already be scheduled automatically after a Server upgrade. The simplest way to upgradestart that process immediately, or to manually schedule multiple boostersBoosters yourself, is to use the "Upgrade All Boosters" button in the toolbar of the Boosters section of the native console:
It automatically schedules all boostersselected Boosters to upgrade. Alternatively, you can select multiple boostersBoosters and use the context menu or toolbar button to upgrade them.
To track the progress of upgrading multiple boosters, you can use the new Booster Upgrade status field mentioned earlier. You can also use the new check box Upgrade available which allows you to filter out boosters that have no upgrade available. This check box is displayed in both the Boosters and Booster Details tabs:
With this new functionality, the process to upgrade Boosters should be greatly simplified, especially for larger environments.