Splunk Phantom upgrade overview and prerequisites
See also: the installation notes in Phantom Notes
Use the Splunk provided Splunk Phantom
repo, NOT the XDR managed msoc
repo.
BE SURE TO HAVE AT MOST 55% FREE space ( 45% used space)
Backup documentation Restore Splunk Phantom from a backup
TODO: Switch to a non-root installation! Future Upgrade may force us to switch.
See Splunk docs!
:warning: Silence Phantom Sensu checks
Stop Phantom
/opt/phantom/bin/stop_phantom.sh
Take an AWS snapshot OF ALL DRIVES in addition to the automatic snapshots! Phantom uses the /tmp directory in addition to the /opt directory. Be sure to include the EBS volume that is storing the /opt data. It is 500 GB volume ( prod ) or a 60 GB volume ( TEST ).
Naming Scheme: phantom-pre-upgrade-backup-<current-version>
phantom-pre-upgrade-backup-4.10.6
Take a full phantom backup while phantom is running. NOTE: to restore a phantom backup you must restore it to the same version of Phantom on a different server! You CAN skip the ibackup if you have a good snapshot!
/opt/phantom/bin/start_phantom.sh
/opt/phantom/bin/phenv ibackup --setup
/opt/phantom/bin/phenv ibackup --backup
Be sure you have enough space!
df -h | grep opt
Calendar Invite for PROD Phantom Upgrade. Coordinate with James Kerr and Greg Rivas for a time that works with the SOC.
Required:
Rivas, Gregory A. <gregory.a.rivas@accenturefederal.com>; Ou, Xiaofeng <xiaofeng.ou@accenturefederal.com>;
Optional:
Accenture Federal Cyber Center <afcc@accenturefederal.com>; XDR-Engineering <xdr.eng@accenturefederal.com>; Plas, Ryan <ryan.m.plas@accenturefederal.com>
Subject: PROD Phantom Upgrade
The production Phantom is going to be upgraded during this time. Please plan accordingly.
Current version:
New version:
Reason for upgrading:
<PUT REASONS HERE>
Post to xdr-soc
Phantom is shutting down for an update in 5 minutes!
Stop Phantom
/opt/phantom/bin/stop_phantom.sh
disable backups
sed -i -e 's/archive_mode = on/archive_mode = off/i' /opt/phantom/data/db/postgresql.phantom.conf
grep archive_mode /opt/phantom/data/db/postgresql.phantom.conf
Clean yum
yum clean all
install updates excluding nginx.
:warning: Watch out for the phantom_repo package being updated! Do not update phantom_repo, yet. If phantom is not running i don't think the package upgrade succeeds. Reboot if kernal is updated.
yum update --exclude=nginx --disablerepo phantom-base
shutdown -r now
Start Phantom ( should be already started due to reboot )
/opt/phantom/bin/start_phantom.sh
Install phantom repo and signing keys use the rpm command to upgrade the repo package. ( RPM preferred )
rpm -Uvh https://repo.phantom.us/phantom/<major version.minor version>/base/7Server/x86_64/phantom_repo-<major version.minor version.release.build number>-1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://repo.phantom.us/phantom/4.10/base/7Server/x86_64/phantom_repo-4.10.7.63984-1.x86_64.rpm
This takes a LONG time! Use nohup to background the process to avoid SSH timeout issue. Ask Splunk Support for nohup command. ALTERNATE: Use TMUX to keep session alive.
tmux
/opt/phantom/bin/phantom_setup.sh upgrade --without-apps --no-space-check
SUGGESTED: Open one vertical split window and one horizontal split window in xterm/tmux to watch the upgrade, watch the size of /tmp and watch the /var/log/phantom/phantom_install_log.
tail -f /var/log/phantom/phantom_install_log
NOTE: You should ignore the "Complete!" messages. They are not indicating that the whole upgrade is complete. They are indicating that one RPM package has been upgraded.
Upgrade apps after a successful upgrade.
08/2021 minor upgrade to upgrade Nginx due to Vuln scanner. Also removes use of TLSv1.1
05/2021 minor upgrade due to known issue with pgbouncer and okta auth.
Troubleshooting
ISSUE: Phantom webpage does not load and shows "internal server error" ( See Splunk Support ticket)
RESOLUTION: check permissions on /tmp/uwsgi_invalidate_ss_cache_trigger and ensure they are 666. Then restart uwsgi with /opt/phantom/bin/phsvc restart uwsgi
( if needed try this ) In: "/opt/phantom/usr/python36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/ registry.py (https://registry.py) " The line: 'raise RuntimeError("populate() isn't reentrant")' Should be changed to: 'self.app_configs = {}'
05/2021
Follow Splunk Docs!
Switched XDR from offline RPM install to Phantom repo install
I had to upgrade to latest version in 4.9 before upgrading to 4.10
Use tmux to avoid SSH timeout during upgrade?
08/2020
See Splunk docs!
Silence Phantom Sensu checks
Stop Phantom
/opt/phantom/bin/stop_phantom.sh
Clean yum
yum clean all
Take an AWS snapshot in addition to the automatic snapshots! should be for a 500 GB volume
Naming Scheme: phantom-pre-upgrade-backup-
Run a backup!
sudo phenv python ibackup.pyc --backup
Update OS & reboot (only if kernel updated)
yum update --exclude=nginx
Start Phantom
/opt/phantom/bin/start_phantom.sh
Disable WAL
sed -i -e 's/archive_mode = on/archive_mode = off/i' /opt/phantom/data/db/postgresql.phantom.conf
restart postgres
# 2021-04-12: While troubleshooting a problem, noticed we're on postgres11 now.
/opt/phantom/bin/phsvc restart postgresql-11
Install new repo and keys
rpm -Uvh https://repo.phantom.us/phantom/4.9/base/7Server/x86_64/phantom_repo-4.9.35731-1.x86_64.rpm
Centos7 (Caasp)
rpm -Uvh https://repo.phantom.us/phantom/4.10/base/7/x86_64/phantom_repo-4.10.3.51237-1.x86_64.rpm
Troubleshooting
Error: Error - Phantom requires that the user 'phantom' has access to cron.
Solution: vim /etc/cron.allow
and add phantom
Error! It looks like you don't have enough space in your /tmp directory
Your /tmp directory
must have a capacity of at least 5GB
If you would like to ignore this check, please re-run with the option --no-space-check
Upgrade script
/opt/phantom/bin/phantom_setup.sh upgrade
Post Upgrade (Run IF the upgrade script produces the message!)
su - postgres -c '/usr/pgsql-11/bin/vacuumdb -h /tmp --all --analyze-in-stages'
Run this to re-setup or backups
phenv python3 /opt/phantom/bin/ibackup.pyc --setup
Verify postgres version
su - postgres -c '/usr/pgsql-11/bin/postgres --version'
Login into web to accept EULA
Administration > Product Settings > Telemetry > OFF
Post Upgrade Steps
Have Phantom Administrator verify that email is working properly.
Clear Silence Done!
vagrant phantom creds admin/password Password1 ssh use the brad user and ssh key
TEST
PROD
stop phantom take snapshot of drive clean yum cache install RPM for repo upgrade phantom
Phantom Upgrade Steps Do not skip versions. Upgrade incrementally.
rpm -Uvh https://repo.phantom.us/phantom/4.6/base/7Server/x86_64/phantom_repo-4.6.19142-1.x86_64.rpm
/opt/phantom/bin/phantom_setup.sh upgrade
Post Upgrade Steps