Upgrade NGINX Agent v3 to a new version

Overview

Follow the steps below to upgrade NGINX v3 Agent to the latest version.

1. Open an SSH connection to the server where you’ve installed NGINX Agent.

2. Make a backup copy of the following locations to ensure that you can recover if the upgrade does not complete successfully:

   • /etc/nginx-agent
   • Every configuration directory specfied in /etc/nginx-agent/nginx-agent.conf as a config_dirs value

3. Install the updated version of NGINX Agent:

   • CentOS, RHEL, RPM-Based

     Copy

     sudo yum -y makecache
     sudo yum update -y nginx-agent

   • Debian, Ubuntu, Deb-Based

     Copy

     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install -y --only-upgrade nginx-agent -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"