topic Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server? in General Topics

Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server?

udanap — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 05:55:03 GMT

Hi All,

I have a little concern regarding the upgrades. As an example, assume we have a R80.10 Management server with a jumbo hotfix version of T100 and we are going to upgrade a firewall to R80.10 and current jumbo hotfix version lets assume as T200. Can we install the T200 on Firewall and add it to the management server or do we need to install a lower or equivalent hotfix version to the T100 ( which is the Management server hotfix version )?

Thanks!

Re: Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server?

Kaspars_Zibarts — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:22:38 GMT

No, that not a case at all - you can actually run Mgmt say on R80.20 and gateways on R80.40 with a correct jumbo take on Mgmt.

But for the same release there shouldn't be any limitations apart from important fault fixes that might affect your particular environment.

Re: Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server?

PhoneBoy — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 23:40:42 GMT

Some fixes require fixes on to be applied on gateway and management.
Would refer to the relevant JHF SK to confirm this will not cause an issue for you.

Re: Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server?

shlomip — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:07:16 GMT

Hi,

there is no need to have a higher hotfix/jumbo version on the Security Management server and there is no such dependency.

2 things to take into consideration:

First, as @PhoneBoy said, compatibility between the Security Gateway and Security Management - in such cases we indeed mention that in the relevant JHF sk per relevant fix.

This also applies to SmartConsole<--> Security Management fixes compatibility.

Second,

in a cluster environment, the compatibility between the fixes/jumbo version should be the same

Hope this helps.

Re: Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server?

MeravAlon — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 08:24:44 GMT

In addition to the above, we recommend customers that are planning an upgrade, to refer to sk164258 to check compatibility of Jumbo Hotfix Takes between different releases

sk164258 - Compatibility of Jumbo HFA Takes between different releases

Regards, Merav Alon

Re: Does it always need to have the higher hotfix version on Management server?

udanap — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 02:32:35 GMT

Hi All,

Thank you so much for the comments. I really appreciate the support.