About This Guide - AWS Elemental Conductor File

This is version 2.17 of the AWS Elemental Conductor File documentation. This is the latest version. For prior versions, see the Archive section of AWS Elemental Conductor File and AWS Elemental Server Documentation.

About This Guide

This guide is intended for engineers who upgrade the software running on the nodes of AWS Elemental Server.

The full suite of upgrade information for AWS Elemental Server is described in the table:

Deployment Description Information

Stand-alone deployments

AWS Elemental Conductor File nodes are not in a cluster controlled by AWS Elemental Conductor File.

AWS Elemental Server Upgrade Guide

Single Conductor cluster

AWS Elemental Conductor File nodes in a cluster controlled by one AWS Elemental Conductor File node.

This guide.

High-availability cluster

AWS Elemental Conductor File nodes in a cluster controlled by two AWS Elemental Conductor File nodes (a primary and a backup).

This guide.

Prerequisite Knowledge

We assume that you know how to log into a remote terminal (Linux) sesssion in order to work with the command line interface.

Note

To receive assistance with your AWS Elemental appliances and software products, see the forums and other helpful tools on the AWS Elemental Support Center.

Tips for Sending Commands

  • Unless otherwise stated, enter all Linux shell commadns from the home directly (/home/elemental).

  • To ensure that the commands will be executed regardless of you user permissions, use "sudo" to run the command as superuser.