Thanks for the tips guys (Greg and Francesco).
One other thing I've noticed is when clicking on a status column toget the details (calling bb-hostsvc.sh) I now get a "Status not available" returned every time. Info and trends work, but none of the tests like conn or disk. Any ideas?
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:42 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question
Hobbit works very hard to honor any changes that you have made. I think you will find that this type of upgrade is more trouble than it is worth. (I did this first myself and had the same problems).
Another approach to consider is this:
a) restore your old directories, make sure the old hobbit is working
b) stop the old hobbit
c) rename the server and client directories. make a backup copy of the data directory
d) install new Hobbit as a new install, and start it up.
e) move the files over that you KNOW need to move over, like bb-hosts, etc.
f) manually diff/merge your other files in server/etc with the new system.
g) update any web pages you might have changed
As you work through the changes, you will end up with the new features and any customizations you have made that are still relevant. It only took me a couple of hours, and I had added a lot of custom graphs and changed the "skins" a little.
GLH
From: Maschino, Shawn (GE Indust, Plastics)[mailto:Shawn.Maschino at ge.com] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:27 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question
Hi all. I was running Hobbit 4.1.2 on a Red Hat Linuxserver, and tried to upgrade to 4.2.0. Since I didn't see any documentation on doing the upgrade, I stopped Hobbit and Apache, backed up my current configs and files, and ran the install process for 4.2.0 to be placed in the same location 4.1.2 was running. Everything seemed to work, at the bottom of the screen I now see "Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/> " as the version, but none of the new menus or options are appearing. For instance under "Views" I still have "NK View", not critical systems view. NK View still goes to the bbnk.html page, not the new cgi scripts. The cgi files are in the cgi-bin directory, just no menu items or links to them. If I directly go to them they seem to work fine. Does anyone know where I may have gone wrong on this? Thanks. Shawn