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    2. WildFire Appliance Administration
    3. Set Up and Manage a WildFire Appliance
    4. Enable WildFire Appliance Analysis Features
    5. Set Up WildFire Appliance Content Updates
    6. Install WildFire Content Updates Directly from the Update Server

    Install WildFire Content Updates Directly from the Update Server

    Where Can I Use This?
    What Do I Need?
    • WildFire Appliance
    • WildFire License
    1. Verify connectivity from the appliance to the update server and identify the content update to install.
      1. Log in to the WildFire appliance and run the following command to display the current content version:
        admin@WF-500> 
        show system info | match wf-content-version
      2. Confirm that the appliance can communicate with the Palo Alto Networks Update Server and view available updates:
        admin@WF-500> 
        request wf-content upgrade check
        The command queries the Palo Alto Networks Update Server and provides information about available updates and identifies the version that is currently installed on the appliance.
        Version Size  Released on      Downloaded Installed 
--------------------------------------------------- 
2-253   57MB  2014/09/20 20:00:08 PDT no         no 
2-39    44MB  2014/02/12 14:04:27 PST yes     current
        If the appliance cannot connect to the update server, you will need to allow connectivity from the appliance to the Palo Alto Networks Update Server (updates.paloaltonetworks.com), or download and install the update using SCP as described in Install WildFire Content Updates from an SCP-Enabled Server.
    2. Download and install the latest content update.
      1. Download the latest content update:
        admin@WF-500> 
        request wf-content upgrade download latest
      2. View the status of the download:
        admin@WF-500> 
        show jobs all
        You can run
        show jobs pending
         to view pending jobs. The following output shows that the download (job id 5) has finished downloading (Status FIN):
        Enqueued          ID  Type    Status Result Completed 
--------------------------------------------------- 
2014/04/22 03:42:20  5  Downld  FIN   OK   03:42:23
      3. After the download is complete, install the update:
        admin@WF-500> 
        request wf-content upgrade install version latest
        Run the
        show jobs all
         command again to monitor the status of the install.
    3. Verify the content update.
      Run the following command and refer to the
      wf-content-version
       field:
      admin@WF-500> 
      show system info
      The following shows an example output with content update version 2-253 installed:
      admin@WF-500> 
      show system info
       
hostname: WildFire 
ip-address: 10.5.164.245 
netmask: 255.255.255.0 
default-gateway: 10.5.164.1 
mac-address: 00:25:90:c3:ed:56 
vm-interface-ip-address: 192.168.2.2 
vm-interface-netmask: 255.255.255.0 
vm-interface-default-gateway: 192.168.2.1 
vm-interface-dns-server: 192.168.2.1 
time: Mon Apr 21 09:59:07 2014 
uptime: 17 days, 23:19:16 
family: m 
model: WildFire 
serial: abcd3333 
sw-version: 6.1.0 

      wf-content-version: 2-253
       
wfm-release-date: 2014/08/20 20:00:08 
logdb-version: 6.1.2 
platform-family: m
    4. (
      Optional
      ) Schedule content updates to be installed on a daily or weekly basis.
      1. Schedule the appliance to download and install content updates:
        admin@WF-500# 
        set deviceconfig system update-schedule wf-content recurring [daily | weekly] action [download-and-install | download-only]
        For example, to download and install updates daily at 8:00 am:
        admin@WF-500# 
        set deviceconfig system update-schedule wf-content recurring daily action download-and-install at 08:00
      2. Commit the configuration
        admin@WF-500# 
        commit

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