1. A method comprising: by an upgrade management system on a computing system: determining a configuration of first version of an access manager executing on the computing system to protect access to one or more resources, wherein the configuration includes one or more functional settings of the first version of the access manager, and wherein the configuration includes one or more policy parameters that defines authentication for accessing the one or more resources; obtaining the one or more policy parameters included in the configuration of the first version of the access manager; obtaining the one or more functional settings included in the configuration of the first version of the access manager; generating a configuration of a second version of the access manager to protect access to the one or more resources, wherein generating the configuration of the second version includes: modifying the one or more policy parameters for adjustment from the first version to the second version of the access manager; and modifying the one or more functional settings of the first version for adjustment from the first version to the second version of the access manager; configuring, based on the generated configuration of the second version of the access manager, the second version of the access manager on the computing system; and modifying execution of the access manager on the computing system from the first version to the second version based on configuring the second version of the access manager.