Upgrade an agent

You upgrade an agent in the usual way, according to whether the agent is a universal forwarder or a full Splunk Enterprise instance. The fact that an instance is an agent does not make any difference in how you perform the upgrade.

However, after you upgrade the agent, the agent will appear twice in the agent list that agent management maintains and presents through the agent management interface. To eliminate the duplicate listing, you must restart agent management after an agent upgrade.