Seqrite Endpoint Security 8.2.1

EPS 7.6 Migration

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SEQRITE recommends customers of EPS 7.6 should migrate to SEQRITE EPS 8.2.
For the current EPS 7.6 customers, SEQRITE is providing a tool to migrate data of clients, groups, and policies from EPS 7.6 to EPS 8.2.

This page will guide you through the step-by-step migration process to migrate EPS 7.6 data of clients, groups, and policies to EPS 8.2. This page is active for only 60 days from the activation date of Migration feature.

System requirements

  • Service Pack 5.0 applied on EPS 7.6 Server and clients
  • Windows and Linux
    For System requirements for Seqrite EPS clients, See System Requirements.

Important

  • If the OS requirements are not met, the clients, groups, and policies data will not be migrated to EPS 8.2.
  • The client is installed in the default path. You can modify the client installation path, if required. If you want to change the path, you should change the path before migration.
    To change the client installation path, go to EPS 8.2 console > Configurations > Client Installation.

Migrating Data

EPS 7.6 Migration process means migrating the data of clients, groups, and policies from the EPS Server 7.6 to the EPS Server 8.2.

Migrating clients, groups, and policies

To migrate EPS 7.6 data of clients, groups, and policies to EPS 8.2, follow these steps:

  1. Go to EPS 8.2 console > Deployment > EPS 7.6 Migration page.
  2. Click the Export Tool button. The tool is downloaded.
  3. Execute the Export Tool on the EPS 7.6 server.
  4. After the Export Tool is executed, ‘Do you want to change export location? [y/n]’, question appears. To provide local system path to export data of the clients, groups, and policies , type ‘y’ and type the path.
    To export the data to the default path, type ‘n’.
    The default export path is installation directorySeqriteEndpoint Security 7.60AdminExport.
    After validating the path, the data is exported in the .DAT format at the set path. The Client.dat and Groups.dat files will be zipped automatically to Export.zip by the Export Tool.
  5. Go to EPS 8.2 console> Deployment > EPS 7.6 Migration page.
  6. Click the Import Data button. The Import Data dialog appears. By default, the Client and Groups check boxes are selected, so all clients, groups, and policies are imported. If you don’t want to import groups, clear the Groups check box.
  7. Click Browse to Import Export.zip file.
  8. Click Import. The data is imported successfully. The success message appears.

    9. > Note
    Maximum no. of groups to be imported: 999
    Maximum no. of policies to be imported: 198


    For Group and Policy Migration, please note

    • If a duplicate group is found on both EPS 7.6 and EPS 8.2, it will be skipped. But if the applied policies are different on duplicate groups, the policy applied on EPS 8.2 remains the same.
      Example: If ‘Group1’ is present on both EPS 7.6 and EPS 8.2, after migration, the policy assigned to Group1 on EPS 8.2 remains the same.
    • While importing the Firewall policy, ensure the following things.
      • In EPS 7.6, if multiple Remote IP addresses are added to the Firewall exception, then in the imported policy in EPS 8.2 multiple exceptions will be created for each IP.
      • Domain name exceptions are ignored
    • If a duplicate name is found in EPS 7.6 and EPS 8.2 of the following components while importing, a timestamp will be appended to the imported name.
      • Policy
      • Device name
      • User Defined Dictionary
  1. Applying Migration Service Pack for Windows, do the following.
    1. If you want to change the default client installation path, go to EPS 8.2 console > Configurations > Client Installation. Else, client will be installed at default location.
    2. On EPS 7.6 Migration page, click the Client Migration Tool button.
    3. The Client Migration Tool, migrate.zip is downloaded.
    4. Extract the zipped file on the EPS 7.6 server. The extracted folder contains clagnt.dat and acsvpack.exe files.
    5. Execute acsvpack.exe on the EPS 7.6 server.
    6. The Client Migration Tool prompt appears. Click Yes.
      If you select Yes, the endpoints will be migrated group-wise.
      If you select No, all the endpoints will be migrated in one go.
    7. The success message appears. Click Ok.

      8. The Migration Service pack is applied on EPS 7.6 server successfully.

      Migrating Group-wise endpoints

      To migrate group-wise endpoints, follow these steps.

      1. Log on to the SEQRITE Endpoint Security 7.6 console.
      2. Go to Clients > Manage Groups.
      3. Select the group from which the endpoints need to be migrated. You can migrate a group only once.
        A submenu list appears.
      4. Select Migration to EPS 8.x.
        The confirmation screen appears.
      5. Click Yes.
      6. Restart the endpoint when the restart prompt will appear on the endpoint. You will receive 2 restart prompts during migration process in case you have not rebooted the system after EPS 7.6 client installation.

      The migration feature is applied to the selected parent group and all child subgroups if available. All the endpoints under the parent group and child group, if available are migrated to EPS 8.x.

  1. For Linux, do the following.
    1. Go to EPS 8.2 console > Deployment > Online Installer page.
    2. Download latest Linux Seqrite Client packager on the Linux client.
    3. The Client Installer tar file is downloaded. Extract the files on the Linux client.
    4. Execute the Installer. Uninstallation of previous version and installation of latest version will be done automatically.
      The data of clients, groups, and policies will be migrated successfully.
      Migrated Clients will appear online on the EPS 8.2 console.

Removing inactive clients from EPS 7.6

The migrated clients appear offline/inactive on the EPS 7.6 Web console.
To remove inactive clients, follow these steps:

  1. Log on to the Seqrite Endpoint Security 7.6 Web console.
  2. Go to Admin Settings > Clients. The Client Installation page appears.
  3. Under Inactive Client Settings, select the Enable automatic removal of inactive clients check box.
  4. In the Remove a client if inactive for list, select number of days after which Seqrite Endpoint Security considers a Client is inactive.
  5. To apply the setting, click Apply.

Limitations

  • EPS Migration 7.6 does not support the clients with Mac operating systems.
  • The Default client on the EPS Server will not be migrated to EPS 8.2.
  • Update Agent upgrade is not supported.
  • Master Secondary setup not supported for EPS 8.2.
  • Migration of EPS Users and reports are not supported.
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