Cortex xdr 7.0 and 7.1 agent end of life

[AsifSid]

Hi All,

We need to upgrade the cortex agent from version 7.1 to 7.3 via console. My concern is how can we exclude a certain range of endpoints (Suppose we have 5000 endpoints and we want to exclude 800 endpoints) from upgrading.

I have created an endpoint group that we want to exclude. but not sure how to exclude.

Can anyone please advise?

Regards

Asif Siddiqui

[AsifSid]

Hi,

Could you please elaborate more on the logic?

[AsifSid]

Hi Gjenkins,

There is one more question I have that if we are upgrading the agent version via the SCCM tool (deployment tool), do we need to uninstall the old version first and then install the new version or we can upgrade on top of the old version.

Regards

Asif Siddiqui

[gjenkins · Accepted solution]

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@AsifSid wrote:

Hi Gjenkins,

There is one more question I have that if we are upgrading the agent version via the SCCM tool (deployment tool), do we need to uninstall the old version first and then install the new version or we can upgrade on top of the old version.

Regards

Asif Siddiqui

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Hi @AsifSid,

An uninstall is not required to upgrade using a third-party deployment tool such as SCCM. The installation package looks for a preexisting version of the Agent and prepares to update components as required.