[Xymon] HOWTO: Upgrading MAGServer Xymon installation

Hi All -

I wanted to offer my upgrade notes on how to upgrade the Xymon installation contained within the MAGServer from Squidworks (http://www.squidworks.net/software-projects/mag/)

I couldn't find documentation anywhere on how to go about this, so if others are wondering how to upgrade from the 4.3.4 install of Xymon to the latest (4.3.21 as of this email) these are the steps I used:

1.   Good idea to backup the VM in case anything goes wrong

2.   Download Xymon package from SourceForge and use tar to extract the

   files

3.   Review the Makefile for the 4.3.4 install that came with MAGServer.

   The original install of xymon version 4.3.4 files can be located at /root/xymon

4.   Run the "./configure" but don't run make yet.  The MAGServer

   package does not use many of the defaults. Make sure to use the same variables where appropriate from the old Makefile, example: XYMONTOPDIR, SECURECGIDIR, XYMONHOSTURL, etc.

5.   Compare again the new Makefile to the old Makefile, making sure

   that variables for location paths, etc. match so that the new install will place files in the correct place.

6.   Run "make" but don't run "make install" yet.

7.   At this point check the directory /var/www/xymon/server.  In my

   install there was a broken symbolic link here named "xymon" (the file had red reverse background). If it's there, remove it because it prevents the make install from working, it complains about the directory path being too deep.

8.   Run make install.

9.   Upgrade is complete and should be OK now.  Maybe for good measure

   restart xymon to make sure all comes up OK after a restart.

These steps worked for me, hopefully it works for others who use the MAGServer VM appliance.

Rob