Hint

If your WAPT Server is a virtual host, take a snapshot of the VM. This way, you will be able to go back easily in the rare case that the update fails.

Warning

After each WAPT Server update, update your WAPT Console, then regenerate the WAPT Agent.

Before upgrading WAPT Server, please refer to the following upgrading compatibility chart:

Available WAPT Upgrade paths

To WAPT 2.2

From WAPT 1.8.2

feature available

From WAPT 2.0

feature available

From WAPT 2.1

feature available

Note

For all older versions, please refer to the 2.1 documentation

Warning

If upgrading from a version less than WAPT 2.1, the licence activation process has changed.

Switching of WAPT Edition (Community, Discovery, Enterprise)

WAPT Community is not suppported anymore on version WAPT 2.2. If you want to upgrade from WAPT 1.8.2 Community you can upgrade to WAPT 2.2 Discovery. Please note that WAPT Discovery is limited to 300 client computers maximum.

To upgrade from a WAPT Community setup to WAPT Discovery or Enterprise follow the standard 1.8.2 to 2.2 upgrade documentation.

The WAPT Server will make the appropriate changes.

To upgrade WAPT Discovery to WAPT Enterprise simply upload a valid licence to the WAPT Server from the WAPT Console.

If your Enteprise licence expire, it will fall back on the Discovery Edition. If you have more that 300 client computers in your server while in Discovery mode, the console will be limited and you’ll have to delete computer entries in the inventory in order to go below the 300 computers limit.

Upgrading from version 2.2 to latest

Choose your distribution

  • Update the underlying distribution and upgrade WAPT Server

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update && apt upgrade -y
apt install tis-waptserver tis-waptsetup -y
unset DEBIAN_FRONTEND

Upgrading from version 2.0 or 2.1 to 2.2

Note

Before upgrading, ensure that installation requirements are met.

Choose your distribution

  • First of all, update the underlying distributionand install the WAPT Server packages.

apt update && apt upgrade -y
apt install apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg
  • Then the update the package repository and import the GPG key from the repository.

wget -O - https://wapt.tranquil.it/$(lsb_release -is)/tiswapt-pub.gpg  | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://wapt.tranquil.it/$(lsb_release -is)/wapt-2.2/ $(lsb_release -c -s) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wapt.list
  • Update the repository and install the packages.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update
apt install tis-waptserver tis-waptsetup -y
unset DEBIAN_FRONTEND

Upgrading from version 1.8.2 to 2.2

Note

Before upgrading, ensure that installation requirements are met.

Warning

On WAPT 2.1 and upper licence activation is changed.

Choose your distribution

Note

If you are running on Debian9 Stretch, you have first to upgrade to Debian10 Buster before upgrading to WAPT 2.x. The WAPT Server 2.x is not available for Debian9.

It is even recommended to upgrade to Debian 11 Bullseye. In this case, upgrade from Debian 9 => Debian 10 => Debian 11.

  • First of all, update the underlying distribution and install the WAPT Server packages.

apt update && apt upgrade -y
apt install apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg
  • Then update the package repository and import the GPG key.

wget -O - https://wapt.tranquil.it/$(lsb_release -is)/tiswapt-pub.gpg  | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://wapt.tranquil.it/$(lsb_release -is)/wapt-2.2/ $(lsb_release -c -s) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wapt.list
  • Update the repository and install the packages.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update
apt install tis-waptserver tis-waptsetup -y
unset DEBIAN_FRONTEND