Upgrading Checkpoint ClusterXL NGAI R55 -> NGX R60 on Solaris 9

[mmoret]

Hi,

Here my two cents on this upgrade.

I followed the zero downtime procedure from page 100 in the chapter 6 from the upgrade guide.
After upgrading all but the active host, I performed a cphastop on the active member. Now instead of processing traffic on the new node, all traffic stopped.
Even installing a new policy did not help.

So, turned on the R55 member and did a rollback on the other node, my cluster was restored.

Yesterday I could have some downtime an upgraded both nodes right after eachother, this worked great. We only had a downtime of about 6 minutes. After three hours of testing and looking at the SmartviewTracker. I also installed HFA03 and tested the switching (we use HA new mode). My cluster works great now!

Conclusion: Zero downtime upgrade does not work from R55 to NGX R60.
I also contacted support, they said it should work, but couldn't find anything in our environment.

Hope this helps anyone.

Regards
Martijn

[mirage131]

Thanks for the post..I'm upgrading this weekend from R55 to NGX 61 & was thinking of doing the zero downtime..I guess not

[seanmac1904]

zero downtime worked fine for me.
I went from from R55 - > R60 on Solaris 9
I am using multicast load sharing not HA
dont know if that makes a difference
I found I needed HFA03 on my smartcenter before I could push policies to my R55 modules