Important 

• If updating to Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager (FSAM) version 1.2.1 or 2.0.0, the following hotfixes will need to be applied to your Appliances:
  • 8.3: APP-8.3.0-018
  • 8.4: APP-8.4.0-002
• If these hotfixes are present on the Appliance and the FSAM is version 1.2.0 or earlier, Appliances may not load information in the user interface and will instead be grayed-out. If you are not planning to upgrade the FSAM to version 1.2.1 or 2.0.0, please uninstall this hotfix from the affected Appliance(s). 
• Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager (FSAM) version 2.0.0 will work for appliances running 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5, but if the Forcepoint Security Manager (FSM, formerly TRITON manager) is not on 8.5, FSAM 2.0.0 will not work, presenting as unable to log into the GUI. See Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager Installation Guide for 2.0.0 for details.
• If you upgrade FSM to v8.5 in order to install FSAM v2.0 for the management of v8.3 or v8.4 appliances, no additional appliances from an earlier release can be added to the deployment. Once the upgrade process has been started, no new components can be added to the configuration until the full upgrade has been completed.

The Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager (FSAM) has to be uninstalled and reinstalled during upgrade.
 

This article has been created to help narrow down the process for installing the FSAM. Troubleshooting articles are available at the Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager Featured Article. The sections for this article include:

• Preparing the Appliance
• Installing the FSAM
• Running the FSAM
• Upgrading the FSAM

Preparing the Appliance

Important
Appliances with v8.3 require multiple hotfixes to be applied, regardless of FSAM version.

After the appliance hotfixes are applied, proceed to Installing the FSAM. There are two methods for installing the FSAM hotfixes for appliances:
Method 1 - Command Line:

1. Log on to the appliance as the Admin using Putty or another SSH program.
2. Type config and press Enter to enter configuration mode.
3. Type the Admin password and press Enter.

4. To load a hotfix onto the appliance, type load hotfix --id <name of the hotfix> and press Enter. The examples below is for 8.3's Appliance Hotfix 1.

5. If this does not work, type load hotfix and press Enter.
6. Then select the number next to the hotfix you wish to download and press Enter.
7. Allow the hotfix to download.

8. To install the hotfix, type install hotfix --id <name of the hotfix> and press Enter. There is no need to reboot the server after installing each hotfix, however some hotfixes may have a required reboot. Please reboot if requested. 

9. If this does not work, type install hotfix and press Enter.
10. Then select the number next to the hotfix you wish to install and press Enter.

1. APP-8.3.0-001
2. APP-8.3.0-005
3. APP-8.3.0-008
4. APP-8.3.0-010
5. APP-8.3.0-011
6. APP-8.3.0-009
7. APP-8.3.0-018  Note Only install this hotfix if installing or upgrading to FSAM version 1.2.1 or 2.0.0.

Method 2 - Filestore:

1. Refer to the Filestore definition and file save commands document.
2. Download all the appliance hotfixes to the off-box location of your choice from the Downloads site:

1. APP-8.3.0-001
2. APP-8.3.0-005
3. APP-8.3.0-008
4. APP-8.3.0-010
5. APP-8.3.0-011
6. APP-8.3.0-009
7. APP-8.3.0-018  Note Only install this hotfix if installing or upgrading to FSAM version 1.2.1 or 2.0.0.

3. Restart the appliance. There is no need to reboot the server after installing each hotfix, however some hotfixes may have a required reboot. Please reboot if requested. 

 

Installing the FSAM

Download and run the FSAM setup on the Triton Management server. This file is found on the Downloads page in the Forcepoint Appliances section, listed under Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager. You may need to select All Downloads at the top for the section to be visible.

Run the setup file. It will ask to restart Websense - TRITON Web Security service. The impact of restarting this service: Users currently logged into the Forcepoint Security Manager user interface may lose what they are working on at that time. Please ensure everyone has logged out of the user interface. 

Important FSAM 2.0.0 will only work if the Forcepoint Security Manager itself is running version 8.5. 

Running the FSAM:

After installing the FSAM, use the following URL for access - https://<Triton Manger IPv4 Address>:9443/cm/

Upgrading the FSAM:

Download the new version's setup file from the Downloads page.

1. Uninstall the current FSAM.
   1. Open Add/Remove programs (or Programs & Features) from Control Panel.

2. Right click the Forcepoint Security Appliance Manager.
3. Click Uninstall.
4. Reboot the Windows server after uninstall.

2. Install the FSAM with the new version's setup file.

The FSAM runs ontop of the Forcepoint Security Manager (Triton). Issues during the FSAM installation can sometimes lead to problems logging into the Forcepoint Security Manager. Please see the following the Knowledge Base Article discussing remediation steps to management server is either down or initializing error and other general FSM troubleshooting.




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