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title: Performing post-upgrade tasks
description: Perform post-upgrade tasks after upgrading your PingAccess environment to ensure the new version works correctly.
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revdate: August 25, 2026
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---

# Performing post-upgrade tasks

After upgrading your PingAccess deployment using the upgrade utility or the installer, you must perform several post-upgrade tasks to ensure the target version works correctly.

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|   | You can find details about the upgrade in `log/upgrade.log`. For details about the migrated configuration data, examine `log/audit.log`. |

## Steps

1. Review any warnings returned by the upgrade utility.

   At the end of an upgrade, the PingAccess upgrade utility or installer records any manual steps that require user intervention both in the command-line output and in `log/upgrade.log` at the WARN level. Information that doesn't require user intervention is added to the `log/upgrade.log` at the INFO level.

2. In the PingAccess admin console, go to **Settings > HTTP Requests > IP Source** and review the configuration. Ensure that the use of the IP source settings is appropriate for the environment.

   You can find more information in [HTTP requests](../pingaccess_user_interface_reference_guide/pa_http_requests.html) and [Configuring alternative IP source headers](../pingaccess_user_interface_reference_guide/pa_configuring_alt_ip_source_headers.html).

3. [Stop](../installing_and_uninstalling_pingaccess/pa_stopping_pa.html) the source version of PingAccess.

4. [Start](../installing_and_uninstalling_pingaccess/pa_starting_pa.html) the target version of PingAccess.

5. (Optional) If you enabled basic authentication for the PingAccess admin API to perform the upgrade, you can now safely turn it off by deselecting the **Basic Authentication** checkbox.

   ![admin api basic authn disabled](_images/admin-api-basic-authn-disabled.png)