Upgrade an unprivileged standalone Splunk Phantom instance

Follow these steps to upgrade your unprivileged Splunk Phantom instance.

1. Make sure you have read Splunk Phantom upgrade overview and prerequisites.
2. Download the installation tar file from the Splunk Phantom Community portal. If you do not see the required file, contact Phantom support.
3. Log in to the Splunk Phantom instance's operating system as the user account that runs Splunk Phantom. On an unprivileged virtual machine image or AMI-based deployment, this user account is "phantom."
4. If you are using a warm standby, disable warm standby. See Upgrade or maintain warm standby instances in Administer Splunk Phantom.
5. If you are using automation to run ibackup.pyc to make backups, cancel backups that could run during your upgrade window. For example, if you have configured a cron job to run ibackup.pyc, disable that cron job.
6. Stop all Splunk Phantom services. For example, as the root user:

   /home/<username>/<PHANTOM_HOME>/bin/stop_phantom.sh

7. Delete the file /tmp/phantomOvaUpgrade.

   rm -f /tmp/phantomOvaUpgrade

8. Clear the YUM caches. For example, as the root user:

   yum clean all

9. Update the operating system and installed packages. For example:

   yum update --exclude=nginx

10. Restart the operating system. For example, as the root user:

    reboot

11. After the system restarts, log in to the operating system as the user account that runs Splunk Phantom.
12. Copy the installation tar file to the directory where Splunk Phantom was installed. This is the PHANTOM_HOME​ directory.
13. Extract the installation tar file. For example, as the user account that runs Splunk Phantom:

    tar -xvzf phantom-<version>.tgz

14. Run the upgrade script.

    <PHANTOM_HOME>/phantom_tar_install.sh upgrade

    If you don't want to upgrade your installed apps at during the upgrade, you can use the --without-apps option.

    <PHANTOM_HOME>/phantom_tar_install.sh upgrade --without-apps

15. After the upgrade is complete, from Main Menu > Administration > Administration Settings > Search Settings, select Playbooks from the drop-down menu, then click the Reindex Search Data button.