# Upgrade-CMS-to-24.4.2_688996438
## Pre-upgrade tasks

N/A

## Backup CMS before upgrade

Refer to the official CMS backup doc: [https://docs.microfocus.com/doc/SMAX/24.3/CmsBackUpManaged](https://docs.microfocus.com/doc/SMAX/24.3/CmsBackUpManagedK8S)

## Perform CMS upgrade

Refer to the official [CMS patch upgrade doc](https://staging.docs.microfocus.com/doc/UCMDB_Containerized/24.4/2441#Apply_the_patch) to do the following steps:

1. **Download the new CMS charts package**
2. **Perform CMS version update**

## Post upgrade steps

There are 1 post upgrade step need to perform:

1. **Apply the latest version of UCMDB Monitoring package for monitoring browser related metrics**
	1. You can download it from Marketplace: [UCMDB Monitoring | ITOM Marketplace (microfocus.com)](https://www.microfocus.com/marketplace/itom/content/ucmdb-monitoring). In this version, it provides some browser related metrics, please follow below steps to deploy it:
		1. Deploy Service monitor for Prometheus scrap, get ucmdb\_browser\_metrics.yaml from the package, replace keywords which is wrapped by <> in the file and then execute below command to deploy such k8s service  
			kubectl apply –f ucmdb\_browser\_metrics.yaml
				2. Import ucmdb\_browser\_service\_metrics.json from the package to Grafana service which is to deploy the dashboard to view JVM status of Ucmdb Browser service
				3. Update AWS Waf to the latest version, the metrics api should not be open to public
				4. Add one chart in Ucmdb pod monitoring dashboard to observe the memory consumption of Ucmdb Browser pod
		2. Let's keep monitoring it for some time and then decide how to set the alert.