Follow the steps in the sections below to upgrade a highly available portal to 11.4. You will install the 11.4 software on both portal machines first, then start the upgrade process on either machine. Upgrade Portal for ArcGIS outlines additional considerations when upgrading your deployment to 11.4
Install Portal for ArcGIS on both machines
To begin the upgrade of your highly available portal, install Portal for ArcGIS 11.4 on both portal machines. You don't need to consider which machine is primary or standby; you can run the setup on both machines simultaneously.
Note:
If you are upgrading from 10.8.1 or 10.9.1, the Portal for ArcGIS setup may take significant time to complete due to how the software is packaged. To minimize downtime, consider a blue-green pattern to upgrading. For more information, see the Minimize downtime when upgrading ArcGIS Enterprise blog.
Continue the Portal for ArcGIS upgrade
When Portal for ArcGIS 11.4 has been installed on both machines, continue the upgrade from either—you do not need to know which is primary or standby. The following steps only need to be performed on one machine. This will take a few minutes to complete.
- Open your ArcGIS Enterprise organization on either portal machine, provide the path to your current license file, and choose Continue portal upgrade. The URL of your organization is formatted https://organization.example.com:7443/arcgis/home.
- When the upgrade completes, a message appears stating that the portal will be restarted. Click OK.
- Once the portal has restarted and is accessible, sign in to either the home or portaladmin endpoint and run the post-upgrade operation. These steps include upgrading ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World content, re-indexing content, and updating the association between portal machines in a highly available portal.
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After the upgrade is complete, run the postupgrade operation on the same machine (primary or standby) where the upgrade operation was initiated. You can then run a health check on both machines.
Install and configure ArcGIS Web Adaptor
If you use ArcGIS Web Adaptor, follow the steps below to install and configure new instances of Web Adaptor with the portal.
- Install ArcGIS Web Adaptor 11.4 on a web server machine. For instructions, see the installation topic for IIS or Java (Windows).
- Configure the Web Adaptor with the portal. When specifying the Portal URL, enter the URL of one of the portal machines, for example, https://p1.example.com:7443. This URL will be used to discover both of the machines in the highly available configuration and to register them with ArcGIS Web Adaptor. For instructions, see the configuring topic for IIS or Java (Windows).
- Install the second ArcGIS Web Adaptor and configure it with your portal, as in the previous two steps.
Upgrade the remaining ArcGIS components
Upgrade the remaining ArcGIS components in your deployment to 11.4.
- ArcGIS Server (run the 11.4 setup to upgrade)
- ArcGIS Data Store (run the 11.4 setup to upgrade)