Upgrade Avaya Servers to RHEL 8.10

[rtsoi]

Avaya Support has advised us to upgrade our servers from RHEL 8.4 to 8.10 to address security vulnerabilities.

Is there a guide on how to do this?

Thanks

 

[dialtonebone]

Yes - follow the SSP guidance for each product released with the RHEL 8.10 patch/update.

 

[lopes1211]

Upgrading RHEL 8.4 to RHEL 8.10 on OVA-based virtual machines



About this task You can upgrade RHEL 8.4 to RHEL 8.10 using the following av-upgrade-os command. The av-upgrade-os command is available when Communication Manager R10.2.1 is installed. Before you begin 1. Install Communication Manager R10.2.1.

• To view the current version of Communication Manager, run the command: # swversion -s.
• Verify that av-upgrade-os command is available. To verify if the av-upgrade-os command is available, run the following command: which av-upgrade-os
• Verify the current version of RHEL on which Communication Manager is running. To view the current RHELversion, run any of the following commands:
• • cat /etc/redhat-release
• • av-version

Procedure:

1. Login to Communication Manager CLI.

2. To upgrade from RHEL 8.4 to RHEL 8.10, run the following command: av-upgrade-os For example, run av-upgrade-os AV-CM10.2-RHEL8.10-OSUpdate-001.tar.bz2

3. After successful upgrade to RHEL 8.10, reboot the Communication Manager virtual machine.

4. To verify that RHEL 8.10 is upgraded successfully, run any of the followig commands:

• cat /etc/redhat-release

• av-version

 

[rtsoi]

Sorry, I forgot to specify this is for CMS, not Communication Manager.