Upgrading the Agent

About the Upgrade

• Agent upgrade is free of charge.
• The upgrade does not affect the workloads on your cloud servers.
• You are advised to perform the upgrade during off-peak hours.

Manually Upgrading the Agent

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, select a region, click , and choose Security & Compliance > HSS.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Installation & Configuration. Click the Agents tab.
   

   If your servers are managed by enterprise projects, you can select the target enterprise project to view or operate the asset and detection information.

4. Click Agents to Be Upgraded and filter the servers whose agents are to be upgraded.
5. In the Operation column of a server, click Upgrade Agent.

   You can also select target servers in batches and click Upgrade Agent in the upper left corner of the server list to upgrade agents for the servers in batches.

6. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the server whose agent is to be upgraded and click OK to start the automatic upgrade.
7. After the upgrade completes, check the agent version. If the latest version agent is used, the upgrade is successful.

Automatically Upgrading Agents

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, select a region, click , and choose Security & Compliance > HSS.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Installation & Configuration. Click the Agents tab.
   

   If your servers are managed by enterprise projects, you can select the target enterprise project to view or operate the asset and detection information.

4. Click to enable automatic agent upgrade.
   After this function is enabled, HSS checks the agent to be upgraded from 00:00 to 06:00 every day and automatically upgrades the agent to the latest version.

   

   The automatic upgrade can be performed only when the agent status is Online.

   Figure 1 Enabling auto upgrade
   

Related Operations

Installing an Agent