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Upgrade NetQ Appliances and Virtual Machines

The first step in upgrading your NetQ installation to NetQ 4.2 is upgrading your NetQ appliances or VMs.

Prepare for Upgrade

Before you upgrade, complete the following steps:

  • Download the necessary software tarballs
  • Update the Debian packages on physical server and VMs

Optionally, you can choose to back up your NetQ Data before performing the upgrade.

To complete the preparation:

  1. For on-premises deployments only, optionally back up your NetQ data. Refer to Back Up and Restore NetQ.

  2. Download the relevant software.

    1. On the NVIDIA Application Hub, log in to your account.
    2. Select NVIDIA Licensing Portal.
    3. Select Software Downloads from the menu.
    4. Click Product Family and select NetQ.
    5. Select the relevant software for your hypervisor:

      If you are upgrading NetQ Platform software for a NetQ On-premises Appliance or VM, select NetQ SW 4.2 Appliance to download the NetQ-4.2.0.tgz file. If you are upgrading NetQ software for a NetQ Cloud Appliance or VM, select NetQ SW 4.2 Appliance Cloud to download the NetQ-4.2.0-opta.tgz file.

    6. If prompted, agree to the license agreement and proceed with the download.

    For enterprise customers, if you do not see a link to the NVIDIA Licensing Portal on the NVIDIA Application Hub, contact NVIDIA support.


    For NVIDIA employees, download NetQ directly from the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

  3. Copy the file to the /mnt/installables/ directory on your appliance or VM.

  4. Update /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cumulus-netq.list to netq-4.2 as follows:

    cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cumulus-netq.list
deb [arch=amd64] https://apps3.cumulusnetworks.com/repos/deb bionic netq-4.2

  5. Update the NetQ debian packages.

    cumulus@<hostname>:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 https://apps3.cumulusnetworks.com/repos/deb bionic InRelease [13.8 kB]
Get:2 https://apps3.cumulusnetworks.com/repos/deb bionic/netq-4.2 amd64 Packages [758 B]
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
...
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe Translation-en [1900 B]
Fetched 4651 kB in 3s (1605 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

    cumulus@<hostname>:~$ sudo apt-get install -y netq-agent netq-apps
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
netq-agent netq-apps
...
Fetched 39.8 MB in 3s (13.5 MB/s)
...
Unpacking netq-agent (4.2.0-ub18.04u38~1652817271.25f4ac0) ...
...
Unpacking netq-apps (4.2.0-ub18.04u38~1652817271.25f4ac0) ...
Setting up netq-apps (4.2.0-ub18.04u38~1652817271.25f4ac0) ...
Setting up netq-agent (4.2.0-ub18.04u38~1652817271.25f4ac0) ...
Processing triggers for rsyslog (8.32.0-1ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...

Run the Upgrade

Verify the following items before upgrading NetQ. For cluster deployments, verify steps 1 and 3 on all nodes in the cluster:

  1. Check if enough disk space is available before you proceed with the upgrade:
cumulus@netq-appliance:~$ df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       248G   70G  179G  28% /
cumulus@netq-appliance:~$

The recommended Use% to proceed with installation is under 70%.

You can delete previous software tarballs in the /mnt/installables/ directory to regain some space. If you can not bring disk space to under 70% usage, contact the NVIDIA support team.

  1. Run the netq show opta-health command and check that all pods are in the READY state. If not, contact the NVIDIA support team.

  2. Check if the certificates have expired:

cumulus@netq-appliance:~$ sudo grep client-certificate-data /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf | cut -d: -f2 | xargs | base64 -d | openssl x509 -dates -noout | grep notAfter | cut -f2 -d=
Dec 18 17:53:16 2021 GMT
cumulus@netq-appliance:~$

If the date in the above output is in the past, run the following commands before proceeding with the upgrade:

sudo cp /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf.bak
sudo sed -i 's/client-certificate-data.*/client-certificate: \/var\/lib\/kubelet\/pki\/kubelet-client-current.pem/g' /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf
sudo sed -i 's/client-key.*/client-key: \/var\/lib\/kubelet\/pki\/kubelet-client-current.pem/g' /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf
sudo systemctl restart kubelet

Check if the kubelet process is running with the sudo systemctl status kubelet command before proceeding with the upgrade.

If any issue occurs, contact the NVIDIA Support team.

Upgrade Using the NetQ CLI

After completing the preparation steps, upgrading your NetQ On-premises, Cloud Appliances or VMs is simple using the NetQ CLI.

To upgrade your NetQ software:

  1. Run the appropriate netq upgrade command.
netq upgrade bundle /mnt/installables/NetQ-4.2.0.tgz

netq upgrade bundle /mnt/installables/NetQ-4.2.0-opta.tgz

  1. After the upgrade completes, confirm the upgrade was successful.

    cumulus@<hostname>:~$ cat /etc/app-release
BOOTSTRAP_VERSION=4.2.0
APPLIANCE_MANIFEST_HASH=25f4ac06
APPLIANCE_VERSION=4.2.0

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