Akkadian Appliance Manager (AAM) is the command line utility used to manage the Provisioning Manager platform. With the release of Provisioning Manager 4.14 a new a new version of Appliance Manager is required to enable new SSL certificate capabilities. The AAM upgrade requires that Provisioning Manager has Internet access to download the AAM update. If no Internet access is available, the AAM update must be posted on an internal web server or you can simply redeploy the OVA and restore Provisioning Manager from backup.
Follow these steps to update AAM:
- Access Provisioning Manager CLI via Hostname/IP using SSH with a SSH tool such as Putty or WinSCP
- When prompted to login use the following credentials
Username: akkadianuser
Password: akkadianpassword (default)
- From the Akkadian Appliance Manager main menu select Option 5: Update Akkadian Appliance Manager
- From the Update Akkadian Appliance Manager menu select Option 1: Update Appliance Manager Using URL
- You will be prompted for update URL, paste the AAM Update URL at the prompt and hit “enter”
AAM URL: https://akkadianlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/Public/apme/v4/updates/ova/release_AAM_update_1_2_3222018.zip
- Press any key when prompted after the update completes.
- A restart of AAM is required to enable new functionality. From the Update Akkadian Appliance Manager menu select Option 3: Restart Appliance Manager
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