FortiNAC
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Description
This article describes an offline upgrade method for a single unit (control and application in the same unit).
It is applicable to hardware and virtual units.
In some situation the company policy does not allow an outbound connection and FortiNAC is not able to download and perform an upgrade.

For high availability environment, use the same procedures for an offline upgrade.
The upgrade is performed on the primary server and automatically updates the secondary server.



Solution
1) Download the image.bin (example fortinac-8.5.0.533-install.bin) under FortiNAC product section from https://support.fortinet.com/
The upgrade image is in file type bin.

2) Upload the image via SCP to the path /bsc/campusMgrUpdates/
> cd /bsc/campusMgrUpdates/total 750M rwxr-xr-x  1 465M Sep 27  2018 fortinac-8.3.0.79-install.bin.
> cd /bsc/campusMgrUpdates/total 750M rwxr-xr-x  1 285M Jul 17 08:35 fortinac-8.5.0.533-install.bin.

3) Run the Linux CLI checksum calculation against the file, for this example: sha256.
Compare the checksum output against the checksum reference in the support website.
It gives the same checksum value before any action of upgrade.
If different value, download another time:

> sha256sum fortinac-8.5.0.533-install.bin
> 84c1e6c61fb4d0d366f34a0d952426a8526fd49b275b7fb5eca6698f67b3e510 fortinac-8.5.0.533-install.bin

4) Login via admin GUI, go to System -> Settings -> Updates -> System -> Actions -> Install, select the right uploaded version which accomplished in '2)', then start the upgrade by selecting 'install' .
A pop-up window shows the progress of the update. 
Once the upgrade is completed, the unit will reboot. 
During the upgrade, FortiNAC automatically restarts the processes. 
The amount of time for the restart to complete depends upon the size of the database (between 5-10 minutes).




Note: For precautions and details upgrade procedures, read thoroughly the corresponding version release note and upgrade instructions and considerations guide.

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