Horizon Agent Upgrade
If you have a Horizon Enterprise Plus or Horizon Universal subscription license, the last Horizon versions have a function to manage the Horizon Agent Update.
You have two scenarios:
- Automatic map the upgrade to your Connection server infrastructure
- Manually add the Agent upgrade package
I tested this feature in my Home Lab
Enable Automatic upgrade to your Connection server infrastructure
Enable Omnissa Horizon Cloud Portal form of Horizon Agent Auto Upgrade feature
https://cloud.horizon.omnissa.com/
With enabling the Agent Auto Upgrade you can see, without any action, the Horizon package to use for upgrade (this new package is directly downloaded from the Omnissa Site)
If you use this method you can skip the next paragraph and go to Schedule Agent upgrade
Manually loaded the JSON and agent file
Otherwise, you can manually download the JSON file from the customer portal by Omnissa
Omnissa Horizon Standard and Enterprise Plus Subscriptions
Download the files you need
Upload them to a WEB site (Local/Internal or Public), in my case I use an Azure storage account
As blob containers
Which are accessible via WEB (obviously I recommend putting special restrictions)
Let’s configure our POD by entering the appropriate section of the interface via WEB of the connection servers
Enter the URL of our storage account with the name of the JSON file indicated
Schedule Agent upgrade
Let’s proceed with updating the Agent of a VDI by going to the list of our VDI.
We select the VDI or VDI on which we want to update the agent
Then select Update Agent
We select the update package (we can also have multiple versions of agents) and proceed with the planning
There are some safety rules if you do massive updates
Now schedule when will start the upgrade
From the Horizon agent update section, we see the Scheduled task
When the time is coming the job will start and the task state is “in Progress”
Now from the list of VDI machines, we can check the upgrade process.
The user is currently logged in to the machine and waiting for the user logoff or reboot
Now the VDI machine is ready for the upgrade
Agent unknown…. Removed and installed the new one
Installed the new
The VDI is restarted the process is completed and we have the VDI with the updated agent
And the scheduled update task is completed
