# What are the best practices to perform SapphireIMS Agent upgrade once SapphireIMS patch is upgraded?

**URL:** <https://community.sapphireims.com/t/what-are-the-best-practices-to-perform-sapphireims-agent-upgrade-once-sapphireims-patch-is-upgraded/587>\
**Category:** Discovery, Inventory and Compliance\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://community.sapphireims.com/t/what-are-the-best-practices-to-perform-sapphireims-agent-upgrade-once-sapphireims-patch-is-upgraded/587 "2021-04-14T05:38:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Naveen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f07891/32.png) [@Naveen](https://community.sapphireims.com/u/Naveen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://community.sapphireims.com/t/what-are-the-best-practices-to-perform-sapphireims-agent-upgrade-once-sapphireims-patch-is-upgraded/587/1 "2021-04-14T05:38:58Z")

</div>

After upgrading SapphireIMS server, existing agents discovered in SapphireIMS needs to get upgraded (In certain cases, it is not needed when the new patch is not having any agent change - contact Support Team to know about this).

Before upgrading all agents in bulk, disable ‘_Enable/Disable force agent upgrade_’ setting and [schedule the agent upgrade](https://www.sapphireims.com/help/Schedule_Agent_Upgrade.htm) for specific set of test systems to check all the working functionality of agent.

If all the features are working as expected, enable the setting - ‘_Enable/Disable force agent upgrade_’ to upgrade all the end points globally. There is also provision available to perform agent upgrade in batch by batch using [Schedule Agent Upgrade](https://www.sapphireims.com/help/Schedule_Agent_Upgrade.htm) feature.