First get remote access to the site.
Make sure Logistics have enabled SLA for this client temporarily
At this point run appstatus on the Amethyst server to see the current versions.
This upgrade will update the Amethyst software to the latest versions.
cd /opt/datatex/autoupdate/
ls -lh
Result must look like this
total 4.6M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73 Feb 26 2025 amtbe.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.2M May 11 2022 autoupdatesoftware
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K Aug 5 09:05 autoupdatesoftware.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 Jun 20 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 371 Jun 21 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10210
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 371 Jun 22 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10217
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 371 Jun 27 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10219
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 663 Jun 28 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10220
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4K Jul 13 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10221
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K Aug 9 2019 autoupdatesoftware.ini.10223
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K May 11 2022 autoupdatesoftware.ini.previous
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.4M Apr 20 2022 autoupdatesoftware.previous
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6K Aug 5 03:08 checkforupdates.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 403 Jun 20 2019 dosoftwareupdates.sh
Run the dosoftwareupdates.sh script to execute the upgrade
./dosoftwareupdates.sh
This will execute the upgrade which you can view in the autoupgrade log
tail -f /opt/datatex/logs/`logdate`/autoupdatesoftware.log
Look for the DONE message to see once it is done with the upgrade
2026-08-05T09:05:15.012320+02:00 amethystvm autoupdatesoftware: [Info] getexternalresults...hostname parameters= -I | awk '{print $1}'
2026-08-05T09:05:15.017369+02:00 amethystvm autoupdatesoftware: [Info] param...-V
2026-08-05T09:05:15.017490+02:00 amethystvm autoupdatesoftware: [Info] ***DONE***
Run appstatus again to see the the software versions have updated