Selectively Upgrade Prisma Agents

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Selectively Upgrade Prisma Agents

Manually upgrade specificPrisma Agents outside of staged rollouts of Prisma Agent upgrades.

Where Can I Use This?	What Do I Need?
Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager) Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama) NGFW (Managed by Panorama)	Check the prerequisites for the deployment you're using macOS or Windows endpoints Contact your Palo Alto Networks account representative to activate the Prisma Agent feature

From the Endpoint Management page, you can manually upgrade the Prisma Agent on specific endpoints.

Prisma Agents are typically upgraded during staged upgrade rollouts. However, you can selectively upgrade the agent if the staged upgrade failed for certain endpoints, or if you need to troubleshoot Prisma Agent issues.

You can upgrade a device only if the Prisma Agent version is older than the Agent Version listed in the Agent Upgrade Progress section.

Select ConfigurationEndpoint Management.
(Optional) Set the Time Range for which you want to view the data. You can select a preset time range or customize the time range.
In the Devices table, scroll through the list to find the device or search for a device.
Select the check boxes corresponding to the agents that you want to upgrade. You can select up to 20 devices at a time.
Select ActionsUpgrade Agent.

If you’re viewing the details for an individual agent, you can also select ActionsUpgrade Agent from the individual details view.

The upgrade agent action is not available to administrators with the View Only Administrator role.
In the Confirmation dialog, click Yes.

The Jobs button appears or changes to indicate that the agent upgrade job has been added to the queue.

If you upgraded the agent from the device details pane, you must close the pane to see the Jobs button in the Devices table.
To view the status of an agent upgrade, click Jobs. The status of the agent upgrade job appears in the Remote Jobs window.
The status descriptions are as follows:
- Requested—The administrator has initiated the request. The Prisma Agent has not yet acknowledged or acted on the request.
- Pending—The agent has received the request, and is currently processing the request. The agent acknowledges the receipt of the command.
- Completed—The agent has processed the request.
- Failed—The agent was unable to complete the request.