Technical Tip: How to upgrade OS Packages in a FortiSOAR instance running on RHEL

[nmathur]

Description	This article describes how to upgrade OS packages in a FortiSOAR instance running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Scope	FortiSOAR.
Solution	For users who are using FortiSOAR installed on Rocky Linux, the FortiSOAR team issues security patches to manage the OS packages. Users who are using FortiSOAR installed on RHEL are required to manage the OS packages themselves by running the following steps to upgrade the OS packages: Login to the FortiSOAR VM and switch to the 'root' user: sudo su. Take a snapshot of the current state of the VM. Stop fortisoar-related services using the following command: csadm services --stop Disable the FortiSOAR yum repository using the following command: dnf config-manager --set-disabled fsr-app dnf config-manager --set-disabled fsr-connectors Run the following yum command to upgrade the OS packages: yum upgrade --exclude="php*" Enable the FortiSOAR yum repository using the following command: dnf config-manager --set-enabled fsr-app dnf config-manager --set-enabled fsr-connectors Start fortisoar-related services using the following command: csadm services --start Run the needs-restarting –r command to check if the system needs a reboot to apply the latest OS packages. If the command suggests a reboot, then reboot the system.