2.5 Upgrading a Spacewalk Proxy

The software described in this documentation is either no longer supported or is in extended support.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade to a current supported release.

2.5 Upgrading a Spacewalk Proxy

To upgrade a Spacewalk proxy:

Back up the CA key, SSL certificate, and openSSL configuration file in /root/ssl-build.
For example, you could use the tar command to create a backup:
```
# cd /root/ssl-build
# tar -cvf /tmp/sslcerts.tar RHN-ORG-PRIVATE-SSL-KEY RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT rhn-ca-openssl.cnf
```
Update the openssh-clients and rhn-client-tools packages.
```
# yum update openssh-clients rhn-client-tools
```
Extract the CA key, SSL certificate, and openSSL configuration file from your backup file to /root/ssl-build, for example:
```
# cd /root/ssl-build
# tar -xvf /tmp/sslcerts.tar
```
Update the Spacewalk proxy installer package.
```
# yum update spacewalk-proxy-installer
```
Configure the Spacewalk proxy by running the configure-proxy.sh script.
The following example uses the proxy-answers.txt.UID file saved from a previous installation to perform the configuration:
```
# configure-proxy.sh --non-interactive --answer-file=proxy-answers.txt.NtM1Y
```