Guide

Unified Connector Migration

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Unified Connectors, the latest evolution of Akamai EAA connectors designed to seamlessly support both Cloud Zone applications and high-performance Edge Transport applications.

They can concurrently handle traffic from EAA Applications linked to both EAA Cloud Zones and the modern Edge Transport mechanism.

You can upgrade your existing connectors to unified connectors. This upgrade process is seamless and ensures no disruption to end-user traffic. However, you cannot roll-back to the existing connectors after the migration. For optimal performance, Akamai recommends that you perform this upgrade process during off-peak hours.

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You can upgrade connectors of all package types, except for Docker.

Follow this procedure to upgrade to Unified Connectors:

  1. Log in to Enterprise Center.

  2. In the Enterprise Center navigation menu, select Application Access > Clients & Connectors > Access and Identity Connectors. All your connectors are shown on the connector list page.

  3. Go to the Connector you wish to upgrade and click Security Updates Available icon (security updates available):

existing connector

  1. The security updates panel expands. If you have security updates available go to step 5. If you do not have any security updates go to step 6.

  2. If you have any security updates available, you must perform the update. Click Start Security Update, then Continue. The security update finishes and connector will be running. Next, go to step 6.

  3. If there are no security updates available, click the Upgrade to Unified Connector tab, click Upgrade.

Upgrade button

  1. In the Upgrade to Unified Connector dialog box, click Continue.

  2. The conversion process starts and it changes to Converting to Unified icon
    (convert to unified icon) in the Status column.

  3. After the connector migration is done, the connector package changes to
    Unified : <Package type>.

For example, if you converted a VMWare connector to Unified connector, the package column would change from (classic connector icon) to (unified connector icon) in the Package column.

Your existing connector has been upgraded to a unified connector and serves the application traffic.

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