Elastic Compute Service:Upgrade or disable upgrades of Cloud Assistant Agent

Upgrade by running common commands

If automatic upgrades do not take effect, you can run common commands to manually upgrade Cloud Assistant Agent.

1. Log on to the ECS console.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Maintenance & Monitoring > Cloud Assistant.

3. On the ECS Cloud Assistant page, click the Common Commands tab.

4. Find the latest versions of the following common commands and click Run.

   • Linux instances: ACS-ECS-UpdateAliyunAssist-linux.sh

   • Windows instances: ACS-ECS-UpdateAliyunAssist-windows.ps1

     

5. In the Run Command panel, configure parameters as prompted and click Run.

   • Execution Plan: Configure when to run the command. For more information about how to configure this parameter, see the description of the parameter in Create and run a Cloud Assistant command.

   • Select Instance: Select the instances on which you want to upgrade Cloud Assistant Agent. The selected instances must be in the Running state and have Cloud Assistant Agent installed.

     For information about the other parameters in the Run Command panel, see View and run common commands.

     If the execution results shown in the following figure are returned, Cloud Assistant Agent is upgraded.

     Note

     If the command failed to be run, check the error message and troubleshoot the issue. For more information, see Check execution results and troubleshoot common issues.

Upgrade by downloading an installation package

You can also upgrade Cloud Assistant Agent by downloading the latest installation package. For more information, see Install Cloud Assistant Agent.

Example: Run the following command to download a Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) package and install the latest version of Cloud Assistant Agent on an x86 Linux instance:

wget "https://aliyun-client-assist.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/linux/aliyun_assist_latest.rpm" && sudo rpm -ivh --force aliyun_assist_latest.rpm

Disable the automatic upgrade process to disable upgrades for Cloud Assistant Agent

You can disable the aliyun_assist_update process to disable upgrades of Cloud Assistant Agent.

• If the instance on which Cloud Assistant Agent is installed runs a Windows Server operating system, run the following command in PowerShell:

  Rename-Item -Path 'C:\ProgramData\aliyun\assist\{version}\aliyun_assist_update.exe'-NewName 'C:\ProgramData\aliyun\assist\{version}\aliyun_assist_update.exe.bk'

• If the instance on which Cloud Assistant Agent is installed runs a Linux operating system, run the following command:

  mv /usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/{version}/aliyun_assist_update /usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/{version}/aliyun_assist_update.bk

Use a configuration file to disable upgrades for Cloud Assistant Agent

For Cloud Assistant Agent 2.2.1.140 or later on Linux instances and Cloud Assistant Agent 2.1.1.140 or later on Windows instances, you can disable upgrades by creating a configuration file in a specific directory.

• Disable Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades on startup

  To disable a specific version of Cloud Assistant Agent on an instance from checking for upgrades on startup, find the installation directory of the Cloud Assistant Agent version and create the disable_bootstrap_update file in the config directory. To disable all versions of Cloud Assistant Agent on an instance from checking for upgrades on startup, find the general installation directory of all Cloud Assistant Agent versions and create the disable_bootstrap_update file in the config directory. You do not need to write data to the disable_bootstrap_update file.

  • If the instance on which Cloud Assistant Agent is installed runs a Windows Server operating system, run the following command in PowerShell:

    # For example, run the following command to disable a specific version of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades on startup:
    New-Item -Path C:\ProgramData\aliyun\assist\{version}\config\disable_bootstrap_update
    # For example, run the following command to disable all versions of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades on startup:
    New-Item -Path C:\ProgramData\aliyun\assist\config\disable_bootstrap_update

  • If the instance on which Cloud Assistant Agent is installed runs a Linux operating system, run the following command:

    # For example, run the following command to disable a specific version of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades on startup:
    touch /usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/{version}/config/disable_bootstrap_update
    # For example, run the following command to disable all versions of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades on startup:
    touch /usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/config/disable_bootstrap_update

  Note

  {version} indicates the version number of Cloud Assistant Agent.

• Disable Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades

  To disable a specific version of Cloud Assistant Agent on an instance from checking for upgrades, find the installation directory of the Cloud Assistant Agent version and create the disable_update file in the config directory. To disable all versions of Cloud Assistant Agent on an instance from checking for upgrades, find the general installation directory of all Cloud Assistant Agent versions and create the disable_update file in the config directory. You do not need to write data to the disable_update file.

  • If the instance on which Cloud Assistant Agent is installed runs a Windows Server operating system, run the following command in PowerShell:

    # For example, run the following command to disable a specific version of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades:
    New-Item -Path C:\ProgramData\aliyun\assist\{version}\config\disable_update
    # For example, run the following command to disable all versions of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades:
    New-Item -Path C:\ProgramData\aliyun\assist\config\disable_update

  • If the instance on which Cloud Assistant Agent is installed runs a Linux operating system, run the following command:

    # For example, run the following command to disable a specific version of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades:
    touch /usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/{version}/config/disable_update
    # For example, run the following command to disable all versions of Cloud Assistant Agent from checking for upgrades:
    touch /usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/config/disable_update

  Note

  {version} indicates the version number of Cloud Assistant Agent.